The environment for visual modeling RMD (Rand Model Designer) is designed for studying complex systems. It has a simple and convenient interface and a high-level modeling language. One of the advantages of the package is the possibility to apply it to diffi cultly formalized systems. A great body of models describing complex processes in society are dynamical systems or non-autonomous differential and difference
equations with a large number of parameters. In this connection the choice of RMD as the appropriate tool for implementing mathematical methods in sociology is of considerable importance. We consider the results of RMD applications to investigation of several sociological models having complex behavior.
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