Social dynamics

Social dynamics (or sociodynamics) is the study of the behavior of groups and of the interactions of individual group members, aiming to understand the emergence of complex social behaviors among microorganisms, plants and animals, including humans. It is related to sociobiology but also draws from physics and complex system sciences. In the last century, sociodynamics was viewed as part of psychology. In the 1990s, social dynamics began being viewed as a separate scientific discipline. Then, starting in the 2000s, sociodynamics took off as a discipline of its own, many papers were released in the field in this decade.