tria sunt difficilia mihi et quartum penitus ignoro:
viam aquilae in caelo,
viam colubri super petram,
viam navis in medio mari,
et viam viri in adulescentula
- Wisdom of King Solomon
1. Intro
At least our sights would have been divided into two scientific poles - both can be
regarded in the domain of social science - as we talk about love and romance in human
civilization. The first corner is laid upon the idea of sexual selection, latter called themselves
as evolutionary psychologists. People in this pole are fascinated to reveal things behind
behavioral aspects of the social life and pondering to the patterns discovered from surveys,
behavioral analysis, and theoretical stuffs departed from sociobiology. The other pole is
overwhelmed with people called themselves anthropologists, sociologists, and sometimes
economists with very different views regarding to the relatedness of sex and the emotional
feelings of love and romance. The latter mostly related the issue to the things that is
constructed in social life through habits, norms, while the first mostly related it to the intra-
species evolution - thing that is so distinctive to its counterpart of inter-species evolution
that apparently ruled by the law of struggle of the fittest by means of natural selection.
The history of the development of sociological theories has seen that there is not
much endeavors to relate the findings in social and economic sciences with the one
developed in natural science, especially biology. Despite the abundance of biologists’ works
with efforts to explaining some social processes - e.g.: evolutionary theories, memetics -
social scientists seem to neglect any theoretical achievements in other areas (cf. van den
Berghe, 1990). As the advanced mathematical modeling of statistical mechanics has given a
lot of contributions and stunning discoveries in economics (i.e.: econophysics, sociophysics),
the advanced and powerful theoretical explorations in biology, especially in our
understanding to the evolutionary concepts is felt highly important to be related to the
discourse of the social dynamics (cf. Situngkir, 2003 and Situngkir, 2004).
The aim of the paper is to open the door to the new fashion of both theoretical and
empirical approaches on bridging the most recent trend of sociological analyses
incorporating computational models (i.e.: agent based modeling) to explore culture and
social dynamics (even the embedded economic system) with some recent trends in
evolutionary psychology with expectations of having novel discoveries in our scientific
quests and inquiries to the general social life.
The structure of the paper is composed in regards to some experiments we do on
the micro-states in the level of agency to see the emerging macro-properties. Our
observations are made by using the artificial society the ‘Ribbon of Love’ as proposed in
Situngkir (2007). We need to note here that the computational model we used here is
different with some rigorous mathematical models constructed to see the interpersonal
relations as those elaborated in Rinaldi (1998) or Liao & Ran (2007) as introduced for
educational purposes of differential equations by Strogatz (1988). Our model focuses not
merely in interesting mathematical features of the loving couples but in deed focus on the
non-linear relations of micro-social and its macro-view counterpart as a form of celebration
in the new computational methods in the explorations of social theories.
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