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Abstract in English:

The research project “Acting in social contexts (ASKO)” works on existing general sociological theories and organizational theories- and fundamentals of computer science in the domain of agent-oriented Petri nets, with respect to both modeling and theoretical aspects. In the first part of the project the relationship between the construction of theories and modelling is investigated. So obscurities and inconsistencies of sociological theories are discovered by formalizing and modeling. Also the prognoses made by a theory can be validated experimentally. The second part of the project is the development of a sociological motivated architecture for multi-agent-systems. Therefore, the problem of the establishment and maintaince of groups is investigated. This work is based on three sociological texts of Bourdieu. These texts are the starting point for a first model build with Petri nets, which raises many questions to the sociological theory itself and is therefore useful to re-investigate Bourdieu's concepts.