Qualitative Complexity: Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory
Routledge (2006)
| Abstract | Qualitative Complexity offers a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, the authors present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Social sciences Philosophy Social systems Chaotic behavior in systems | |||||||||
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| Call number | H61.15.S58 2006 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0415439671 0415336503 9780415336505 | |||||||||
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