Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art

ISBN-13: 9781032100869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str.

David Byrne; Gillian Callaghan

Opis

This expanded and updated edition revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening social inequality, and impending social and ecological catastrophe wrought by global warming.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. A manifesto for interdisciplinarity founded on the complexity frame of reference, 2. The complexity frame of reference and action, 3. Doing complexity science, 4. Evolutionary social theory, 5. Structure and agency, 6. Time and place, 7. Social theory and macro system transformation, 8. Complexity theory and the qualitative research programme, 9. Quantitative methods for exploring, understanding, and possibly predicting complex social systems and their intersection with natural systems, 10. Complexity and mixed methods, 11. Modes of governance, 12. Evaluation in a complexity frame, 13. Explicit complexity evaluation, 14. Shaping research and policy, 15. Beyond disciplines and fields: COVID and a world in crisis, Conclusion