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Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences - The state of the art (Paperback, New)
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Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences - The state of the art (Paperback, New)
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Price R580
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For the past two decades, 'complexity' has informed a range of work
across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity
thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of
ways, from health inequalities to the organization of large scale
firms. Some understand complexity as emergence from the rule-based
interactions of simple agents and explore it through agent-based
modelling. Others argue against such 'restricted complexity' and
for the development of case-based narratives deploying a much wider
set of approaches and techniques. Major social theorists have been
reinterpreted through a complexity lens and the whole
methodological programme of the social sciences has been recast in
complexity terms. In four parts, this book seeks to establish 'the
state of the art' of complexity-informed social science as it
stands now, examining: the key issues in complexity theory the
implications of complexity theory for social theory the methodology
and methods of complexity theory complexity within disciplines and
fields. It also points ways forward towards a complexity-informed
social science for the twenty-first century, investigating the
argument for a post-disciplinary, 'open' social science. Byrne and
Callaghan consider how this might be developed as a programme of
teaching and research within social science. This book will be
particularly relevant for, and interesting to, students and
scholars of social research methods, social theory, business and
organization studies, health, education, urban studies and
development studies.
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