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Sociology and Complexity Science - A New Field of Inquiry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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Sociology and Complexity Science - A New Field of Inquiry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Series: Understanding Complex Systems
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By now, most academics have heard something about the new science
of complexity. In a manner reminiscent of Einstein and the last
hundred years of physics, complexity science has captured the
public imagination. (R) One can go to Amazon. com and purchase
books on complexification (Casti 1994), emergence (Holland 1998),
small worlds (Barabasi 2003), the web of life (Capra 1996), fuzzy
thinking (Kosko 1993), global c- plexity (Urry 2003) and the
business of long-tails (Anderson 2006). Even television has
incorporated the topics of complexity science. Crime shows (R) (R)
such as 24 or CSI typically feature investigators using the latest
advances in computational modeling to "simulate scenarios" or "data
mine" all p- sible suspects-all of which is done before the crime
takes place. The (R) World Wide Web is another example. A simple
search on Google. Com using the phrase "complexity science" gets
close to a million hits! C- plexity science is ubiquitous. What
most scholars do not realize, however, is the remarkable role
sociologists are playing in this new science. C- sider the
following examples. 0. 1 Sociologists in Complexity Science The
first example comes from the new science of networks (Barabasi
2003). By now, most readers are familiar with the phenomena known
as six-degrees of separation-the idea that, because most large
networks are comprised of a significant number of non-random
weak-ties, the nodes (e. g. , people, companies, etc.
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