Systems
Subtitle: New Paradigms for the Human Sciences
Contributors: Gabriel Altmann (Editor); Walter A. Koch (Editor)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 781
ISBN-13: 9783110156195
Subjects: Social research & statistics; Sociology; Social Sciences Research; Social Science; System analysis; Methodology; Research; Social sciences
First sentence: The new paradigm of "evolving complexity" is of fundamental importance for the human sciences, and in this chapter we shall attempt to present a clear description of the conceptual framework that it provides, as well as a real example which illustrates all of the levels/styles of description that can be created.