Social emergence
Subtitle: societies as complex systems
By: R. Keith Sawyer.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Social evolution.; Social systems.; Sociology.; Communication -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emergence, complexity, and social science; title: Emergence, complexity, and the third wave of social systems theory; title: The history of emergence; title: Emergence in psychology; title: Emergence in sociology; title: Durkheim's theory of social emergence; title: Emergence and elisionism; title: Simulating social emergence with artificial societies; title: Communication and improvisation; title: The emergence paradigm.