Sociology and Complexity Science : A New Field of Inquiry. 1st ed. 2009

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by Brian Castellani, Frederic William Hafferty

出版情報:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009

著者名:

• Castellani, Brian.
• Hafferty, Frederic William.
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シリーズ名:

Understanding Complex Systems ;

ISBN:

9783540884620 [3540884629]    

注記:

SACS Toolkit#x2014;Theoretical Framework -- SACS Toolkit#x2014;Assemblage -- Overview of SACS -- Environmental Forces -- Five Areas of Research -- The System of SACS -- SACS Today -- Conclusion -- Mapping Complexity.
This book is the first to identify and review the new field of study, sociology and complexity science—or SACS for short. SACS is comprised of five cutting-edge areas of research: computational sociology, the British-based School of Complexity (BBC), complex social network analysis (CSNA), sociocybernetics and the Luhmann School of Complexity (LSC). Together, these five areas represent the latest development in complexity science and sociological systems thinking, offering researchers a powerful, new set of tools for addressing the growing complexity of sociological inquiry. This book also showcases a new method for modeling social systems, called the SACS Toolkit. The SACS Toolkit comes with a theoretical framework (social complexity theory), procedural algorithm (assemblage) and recommended toolset for modeling social systems (qualitatively, historically or numerically) from the ground-up. In fact, this book uses the SACS Toolkit to review the new field of SACS. The third feature of this book is its compend

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