Can we understand important social issues by studying individual
personalities and decisions? Or are societies somehow more than the
people in them? Sociologists have long believed that psychology
can't explain what happens when people work together in complex
modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists
believe that if we have an accurate theory of how individuals make
choices and act on them, we can explain pretty much everything
about social life. Social Emergence takes a new approach to these
longstanding questions. Sawyer argues that societies are complex
dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates
is by developing the concept of emergence, focusing on multiple
levels of analysis - individuals, interactions, and groups - and
with a dynamic focus on how social group phenomena emerge from
communication processes among individual members. This book makes a
unique contribution not only to complex systems research but also
to social theory.
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