This paper presents elements for an operational approach to the formal modeling of the macro functional aspects of agent societies. The concept of agent society used in the paper is summarized. The exchange process-based concept of elementary social function is reviewed and a corresponding concept of elementary social mechanism is introduced. Together, these concepts allow for the recursive definition of the concept of functional system, with which one can account for the general functions performed by the core organizational structure of agent societies. Two case studies are developed to illustrate the type of functional modeling of agent societies that is enabled by the concepts introduced in the paper. The first case study concerns the functional analysis of a simple motivating thought experiment. The second concerns the use of agent societies as formal models for natural societies: it sketches the formalization of Pierre Bourdieu’s functional analysis of the reproduction process of contemporary human societies.

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交流基于过程的社会机制和社会功能：代理社会宏观功能方面的一种操作方法

本文介绍了一种对代理商社会的宏观功能方面进行正式建模的操作方法的要素。总结了本文所使用的代理社会的概念。回顾了基于交换过程的基本社会功能概念，并介绍了相应的基本社会机制概念。这些概念结合在一起就可以对功能系统的概念进行递归定义，通过它可以解释代理人社会的核心组织结构所执行的一般功能。开发了两个案例研究来说明功能建模的类型本文介绍的概念推动了代理商社会的发展。第一个案例研究涉及一个简单的激励思想实验的功能分析。第二个问题涉及将代理人社会用作自然社会的正式模型：它描绘了皮埃尔·布尔迪厄对当代人类社会再生产过程的功能分析的形式化。