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100 1 $aByrne, D. S.$q(David S.),$d1947-
245 10 $aComplexity theory and the social sciences :$bthe state of the art /$cDavid Byrne and Gill Callaghan.
264 1 $aAbingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $avi, 297 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- Framing the issues -- Understanding the complex -- Restricted complexity and general complexity : an outline of the arguments -- Complexity theory and the philosophy of social science -- Complexity theory meets social theory -- Evolutionary social theory -- Structure and agency -- Time and place -- Complexity theory : methodology and methods -- Complexity and methodology : exploring trajectories through narratives -- Hunting causes in a complex world -- Researching the complex social -- Complexity in action -- Complexity in disciplines and fields -- Opening the social sciences : the post-disciplinary implications of the complexity frame of reference -- Conclusion: complexity and the social sciences : the way forward -- Bibliography.
520 $aFor the past two decades, 'complexity' has informed a range of work across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of ways, from health inequalities to the organization of large scale firms. Some understand complexity as emergence from the rule-based interactions of simple agents and explore it through agent-based modelling. Others argue against such 'restricted complexity' and for the development of case-based narratives deploying a much wider set of approaches and techniques. Major social theorists have been reinterpreted through a complexity lens and the whole methodological programme of the social sciences has been recast in complexity terms. -- Publisher website.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xMathematical models.
650 0 $aChaotic behavior in systems.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xResearch.
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650 17 $aChaos.$2gtt
650 17 $aSociale wetenschappen.$2gtt
650 17 $aToepassingen.$2gtt
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