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The atlas of social complexity
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The atlas of social complexity / Brian Castellani (Professor and Director, Research Methods Centre, Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, UK; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, US) and Lasse Gerrits (Professor and Academic Director, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands).
ISBN
9781789909524 (e-book)
Publication
Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource (508 pages)
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Summary
"Embark on a riveting journey through the study of social complexity with The Atlas of Social Complexity. Over three decades of scientific exploration unfold, unravelling the enigmatic threads that compose the fabric of society. From the dance of bacteria, to human-machine interactions, to the ever-shifting dynamics of power in social networks, this Atlas maps the evolution of our understanding of social complexity. Brian Castellani's and Lasse Gerrits' Atlas is not merely retrospective. It is a compass pointing to uncharted territories: new directions for research and intellectual debate. With wit and insight, they invite the reader to ponder unanswered questions, taking them on a quest for alternative ways to understand the intricate complexities of societies. The Atlas of Social Complexity is a thrilling expedition into the heart of what makes us human: from cognition, emotion, consciousness, the dynamics of human psychology, to social networks, collective behaviour, politics and governance, technology and planning, and the practice of social interventions. The Atlas also visits cross-cutting themes such as intersectionality, configurational complexity, and research methods. Organised around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity. It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social complexity"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Elgaronline.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Theme 1: The social complexity imagination
2. Origins of the study of social complexity
3. Thirteen situations
4. Cartography and constructing the atlas
5. Theme 2: Cognition, emotion, and consciousness
6. Autopoiesis and cellular cognition
7. Bacteria and the brain
8. Immune system cognition
9. Brain-based cognition, emotion and consciousness
10. The self
11. Human-machine
12. Theme 3: Dynamics of human psychology
13. Human psychology as dynamical system
14. Psychopathology of mental disorders
15. Healing and the therapeutic process
16. Mindfulness, imagination, and creativity
17. Theme 4: Living in global-ecological social systems
18. Complex social psychology
19. Collective behaviour, social movements and mass psychology
20. Configurational social science
21. The local and the global: Complexities of place
22. Socio-technological life
23. Governance, politics and technocracy
Vi. The atlas of social complexity
24. The challenges of applying complexity
25. Economics in an unstable world
26. Resilience and all that jazz
27. Theme 5: Charting a new methods territory
28. Make love, not models
29. Revisiting complex causality
30. Mapping the new methodological terrain
31. Getting philosophically real
32. Theme 6: The unfinished space
Appendix 1: List of respondents
Appendix 2: Speculative references.
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Electronic books.
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