The journal «Applied Mathematical Sciences» published an article by Natalya Shmatko

The article «Social Structure and Agency as Time-scaled Dynamical System. The Case of Scientific Capital» by Natalya Shmatko, head of the department for Human Capital Research, HSE ISSEK, and Yurij Katchanov, chief research fellow of the Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is published in a new issue of the journal «Applied Mathematical Sciences»(vol. 6, 2012, no. 133).

This article proposes a mathematical model of capital that further develops Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the scientific field. The model describes the joint evolution of scientific capital, the habitus of scientists, and scientific practice. The model is implemented as a random dynamic system with the help of self-consistent equations in the form of a Lorenz – Haken system. We show that if the characteristic relaxation time of the scientific capital is far greater than the relaxation times of the habitus of scientists and scientific activity, then the distribution of scientific capital is determined by the correlation of the  parameters of external action on the scientific field with the intensity of fluctuations of scientific habitus and scientific activity.