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245 00 $aComplexities :$bsocial studies of knowledge practices /$cJohn Law and Annemarie Mol, editors.
260 $aDurham :$bDuke University Press,$c©2002.
300 $a295 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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490 1 $aScience and cultural theory
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tRomantic and baroque conceptions of complex wholes in the sciences /$rChunglin Kwa --$tWhich road to follow? /$rLaurent Thévenot --$tOn space and depth /$rMarilyn Strathern --$tOn hidden heterogeneities /$rJohn Law --$tIn the middle of the network /$rAndrew Barry --$tWhen elephants stand for competing philosophies of nature /$rCharis Thompson --$tWriting and (re)writing devices as tools for managing complexity /$rMichel Callon --$tCutting surgeons, walking patients /$rAnnemarie Mol --$tDisposal of fear /$rNick Lee and Steven D. Brown.
530 $aAlso issued online.
520 $aAsks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.$bWhile much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer - particularly within the field of science studies - approaches to a theory of complexity, and at the same time a theoretical introduction to the topic. Indeed, they examine not only ways of relating to complexity but complexity in practice. Individual essays examine complexity from a variety of perspectives and cover an array of case studies and topics that include market behaviour, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, road-building, meteorology, the science of complexity itself, and the psychology of childhood trauma. Other topics include complex wholes (holism) in the sciences, moral complexity in seemingly amoral endeavours, and issues relating to the protection of African elephants. With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, ebbs, and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Belgium, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, and France, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society.
520 1 $a"There is much here to provoke new thought and insight into the meaning of complexity, and the authors do show how any reduction will inevitably require a focusing that is partial and ultimately problematic. ... Mol should be applauded for trying to see how her story might have some longer term practical utility. But the overall strength of this book lies in its posing more questions than answers-in a quite deliberate way. It is not an easy read, but then that would be asking for a simplification that would hide the very complex(ity) issues the book is trying to reveal."--Andrew Webster, "Interdisciplinary Science Reviews."
650 0 $aComplexity (Philosophy)
650 0 $aKnowledge, Sociology of.
650 6 $aSociologie de la connaissance.
650 6 $aComplexité (Philosophie)
650 7 $asociology of knowledge.$2aat
650 7 $aPhilosophy of science.$2bicssc
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650 7 $aComplexity (Philosophy)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00871602
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650 7 $aKomplexität$2gnd
650 7 $aSoziales System$2gnd
650 7 $aTechnischer Fortschritt$2gnd
650 17 $aComplexiteit.$2gtt
650 17 $aWetenschapssociologie.$2gtt
650 17 $aKennissociologie.$2gtt
650 17 $aKennistheorie.$2gtt
653 $aComplexity (Philosophy)$aKnowledge, Sociology of
700 1 $aLaw, John,$d1946-
700 1 $aMol, Annemarie.
776 08 $iOnline version:$tComplexities.$dDurham : Duke University Press, ©2002$w(OCoLC)605918707
776 08 $iOnline version:$tComplexities.$dDurham : Duke University Press, ©2002$w(OCoLC)606840483
830 0 $aScience and cultural theory.
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