New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities [electronic resource] : A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach /
Jörg, Ton.author.
This book focuses on the development of new thinking in complexity and on the tools needed for this new thinking, i.e. the development of a new language for complexity. This new language is very much about how a nonlinear complex reality is part of real-world complexity. We can start thinking in complexity about the complex topics of our social sciences and humanities by making use of this new language. With the new tools and the new language, it will be possible to deal with the complexity of real-world complexity and to show the promise of harnessing complexity, by turning complexity into effective and advantageous complexity for our social sciences and humanities. It is the very potential of complexity as self-potentiating which makes complexity so beneficial for viewing and doing social sciences. The new tools and the new thinking in complexity may be considered to be the warp and woof of a new science of complexity.
Description based upon print version of record.
New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities; Contents; Chapter 1: Mission of the Book; Chapter 2: Introduction; Chapter 3: The Crisis in the Social Sciences; Chapter 4: Giving Birth to a New Science - Setting the Agenda; Chapter 5: A New Agenda for the Social Sciences; Chapter 6: On Becoming Reflective About Our Viewing and Doing Science; Chapter 7: The Reality of Reality; Chapter 8: New Ways of Knowing About the Complexity of Reality: The Epistemological Problem; Chapter 9: An Introduction to the Chaps. 10-12; Chapter 10: Rethinking Interaction
Chapter 11: Rethinking CausalityChapter 12: Rethinking the Unit of Study; Chapter 13: The Complexity of Complexity; Chapter 14: The Complexity of Human Interaction; Chapter 15: Summary and Conclusions; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book focuses on the development of new thinking in complexity and on the tools needed for this new thinking, i.e. the development of a new language for complexity. This new language is very much about how a nonlinear complex reality is part of real-world complexity. We can start thinking in complexity about the complex topics of our social sciences and humanities by making use of this new language. With the new tools and the new language, it will be possible to deal with the complexity of real-world complexity and to show the promise of harnessing complexity, by turning complexity into effective and advantageous complexity for our social sciences and humanities. It is the very potential of complexity as self-potentiating which makes complexity so beneficial for viewing and doing social sciences. The new tools and the new thinking in complexity may be considered to be the warp and woof of a new science of complexity.
Social sciences.
Computational complexity.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Complexity.