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Also in: Rolf von Lüde, Daniel Moldt, Rüdiger Valk (Hrsg.): SozionikAktuell 1:2001, pages 67-82. www.sozionik-aktuell.de, .
Abstract: This paper presents recent activities in the investigation of combining sociology and computer science in the ``socionics'' project.
It presents a model of an agent society acting under some assumptions stated in the work of the sociologist Bourdieu, concerning mostly the concept of actors' habitus being the essential maxim for their activities and judgments.
Due to the interdisciplinary character of our project, where computer scientists cooperate with sociologists, we favor a graphical representation of our work. To get both a simple presentation and a clear mathematical foundation, we have chosen a special dialect of Petri nets: namely reference nets.
Keywords: Socionics, agents, Petri nets, reference nets, Bourdieu, habitus, field, symbolic capital.