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Symbolic Interactionist Modeling: The Coevolution of Symbols and Institutions

This paper presents a methodology for simulating social systems based on the sociological theory of symbolic interactionism. It is successful in emerging macrolevel institutions such as a role based division of labor and price from microlevel display and reading of signs. This paper presents the philosophy of this type of modeling and an agent based economics simulation which implements it. This simulation uses the artificial intelligence method of coevolving genetic algorithms in its implementation, however, symbolic interactionist simulations may also be implemented with neural networks as was originally done in the author's 1991 master's thesis, a simulation of racial class and status symbols (published in Duong and Reilly, 1995). Symbolic interactionist modeling is an interdisciplinary tool with applications for micro-macro, subjective-objective integration in sociology as well as emergent knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.