AUTHOR=Contucci Pierluigi , Vernia Cecilia TITLE=On a Statistical Mechanics Approach to Some Problems of the Social Sciences JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=8 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.585383 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2020.585383 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

This work is a survey of some results on a statistical mechanics approach to the social sciences emerged in the last two decades. The pioneering work of Daniel McFadden, known as discrete choice theory, is interpreted in terms of a non-interacting model and extended along the lines of the Brock and Durlauf interacting systems. The generalization to the multi-populated model is presented and two specific case studies are reviewed with their phenomenological and theoretical analysis.