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Sociology and complexity science : a new field of inquiry / Brian Castellani, Frederic William Hafferty.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Understanding complex systemsPublisher: Berlin : Springer, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xx, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3540884610
  • 9783540884613
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.015118 22
LOC classification:
  • HM571 .C38 2009
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 1.0. Telling the Story of Sociology's Complexity -- 1.1. The Story of Sociology's Complexity -- 1.2. Sociology's Complexity: The Early Years -- 1.2.1. Embracing the Complexity of Western Society -- 1.2.2. Embracing a Systems Perspective -- 1.2.3. Learning from the Past -- 1.2.4. Intellectual Dead End -- 1.2.5. The Case of Parsons -- 1.2.6. The Rise of Complexity Science -- 1.2.7. The New Challenge of Complexity -- 1.3. The Emergence of SACS -- 1.3.1. Reinventing Parsons -- 1.3.2. Questions for Our Study -- 1.3.3. Method for Our Study -- 2. SACS Toolkit-Theoretical Framework -- 2.0. Overview of the SACs Toolkit -- 2.1. Overview of s 2 and 3 -- 2.2. Social Complexity Theory -- 2.2.1. Social Practice -- 2.2.2. The Five Components of Social Practice -- 2.2.3. Social Systems as Social Practice -- 2.2.4. Overcoming the Agency /Structure Dualism -- 2.2.5. Field of Relations -- 2.2.6. Web of Social Practice -- 2.2.7. Network of Attracting Clusters -- 2.2.8. Environment -- 2.2.9. System Dynamics -- 3. SACS Toolkit-Assemblage -- 3.0. Introducing Assemblage -- 3.1. The Key Features of Assemblage -- 3.2. The Six Steps of Assemblage -- 3.2.1. Step 1: The Research Question -- 3.2.2. The Core: Steps 2 through 4 -- 3.2.3. Step 5: The Working Model -- 3.2.4. Step 6: Conclusion -- 4. Overview of SACS -- 4.0. Web of Social Practices -- 4.1. The Network of Attracting Clusters -- 4.2. Internal Dynamics of SACS -- 4.2.1. Negotiated Ordering -- 4.2.2. Internal Trajectories -- 4.3. Environmental Forces -- 4.4. The Legitimacy of SACS -- 4.4.1. SACS as Enclosed Intellectual Space -- 4.4.2. The Five Research Areas of SACS -- 4.4. The Non-Corporate Government of SACS -- 4.4.4. The SACS Community -- 4.4.5. Common Concerns -- 4.4.6. Interstitial Character of SACS -- 4.4.7. Why Not Call SACS the Sociology of Complexity? -- 4.5. The Formal Emergence of SACS -- 4.6. Situating SACS -- 5. Environmental Forces -- 5.0. Sociology's Complexity -- 5.0.1. Wallerstein's Gulbenkian Commission -- 5.0.2. SACS's Millennial Musings -- 5.1. Systems Thinking -- 5.1.1. Systems Science: A Brief History -- 5.1.2. Systems Science -- 5.1.3. Cybernetics -- 5.1.4. Systems Science and SACS -- 5.1.5. Artificial Intelligence -- 5.2. Complexity Science -- 5.2.1. The Making of Complexity Science -- 5.2.2. Popularizing Complexity -- 5.2.3. Material Conditions -- 5.2.4. A New Vocabulary -- 5.2.5. Topics of Study -- 5.2.6. Method -- 6. Five Areas of Research -- 6.0. Complex Social Network Analysis -- 6.0.1. The Sub-clusters of CSNA -- 6.1. Computational Sociology -- 6.1.1. What Makes Computational Sociology Unique -- 6.1.2. Three Subfields of Study -- 6.2. British-based School of Complexity -- 6.2.1. Complexity Science Lineage -- 6.2.2. Complexity Science and Sociological Methods -- 6.2.3. C2 -- 6.2.4. Integrating Complexity Science and Sociological Topics -- 6.2.5. Sociology Intellectual Traditions -- 6.3. The Luhmann School of Complexity -- 6.3.1. The Luhmann School of Complexity Profile -- 6.3.2. Niklas Luhmann: A Basic Review -- 6.3.3. The LSC Today -- 6.4. Sociocybernetics -- 6.4.1. Complexity Science Lineage -- 6.4.2. Sociology Lineage -- 6.4.3. Complexity Science and Sociology Method -- 6.4.4. Complexity Science and Sociological Topics -- 7. The System of SACS -- 7.0. Why More Method? -- 7.0.1. More Data and Techniques -- 7.0.2. Into the Swamp Again! -- 7.1. Data and Procedures -- 7.1.1. Is a Network a System? -- 7.1.2. Choosing the Top 25 Scholars -- 7.1.3. Database -- 7.1.4. Analytic Procedure -- 7.1.5. How to Read the Map 6 -- 7.1.6. Map 6 versus Map 4 -- 7.2. The Emergence and Growth of SACS (1998-2008) -- 7.2.1. The Emergence of SACS -- 7.2.2. A Decade of Growth (1998-2008) -- 8. SACS Today -- 8.0. Negotiated Ordering -- 8.0.1. Generating Map 6 -- 8.0.2. General Structure of SACS -- 8.0.3. Degree of Connectedness -- 8.0.4. Powerbrokers -- 8.1. Internal Division -- 8.1.1. The Interstitial Character of SACS -- 8.1.2. The Chaos of Sociology -- 8.1.3. The Fractal Dynamics of SACS -- 8.2. The Near Future of SACS -- 9. Conclusion -- 9.0. Overview -- 9.1. Why Read This Book -- 9.2. Expressing Old Ideas in New Ways -- 9.3. Reviewing SACS -- 9.4. SACS Toolkit -- 9.5. What We Learned About SACS -- 9.5.1. The Impact of SACS -- 10. Mapping Complexity -- 10.0. The Map -- 10.1. Map 1: The New Science of Complexity -- 10.2. Map 2: SACS Town -- 10.3. Graph 1: The Pareto Distribution -- 10.4. Figure 1: Venn Diagram of SACS Folders -- 10.5. Map 3: Fill-in-the-Blanks Tool -- 10.6. Figure 2: Web of Social Practices for SACS -- 10.7. Figure 3: Web of Social Practices as Molecule -- 10.8. Flowcharts 1 and 2 -- 10.9. Map 4: The Community of SACS -- 10.10. Map 5: The Lineage of Computational Sociology -- 10.11. Map 6: Social Network Model of SACS -- 10.12. Map 7: Social Network Map of SACS Minus Gatekeepers -- 11. References -- 12. Index.
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1. Introduction -- 1.0. Telling the Story of Sociology's Complexity -- 1.1. The Story of Sociology's Complexity -- 1.2. Sociology's Complexity: The Early Years -- 1.2.1. Embracing the Complexity of Western Society -- 1.2.2. Embracing a Systems Perspective -- 1.2.3. Learning from the Past -- 1.2.4. Intellectual Dead End -- 1.2.5. The Case of Parsons -- 1.2.6. The Rise of Complexity Science -- 1.2.7. The New Challenge of Complexity -- 1.3. The Emergence of SACS -- 1.3.1. Reinventing Parsons -- 1.3.2. Questions for Our Study -- 1.3.3. Method for Our Study -- 2. SACS Toolkit-Theoretical Framework -- 2.0. Overview of the SACs Toolkit -- 2.1. Overview of s 2 and 3 -- 2.2. Social Complexity Theory -- 2.2.1. Social Practice -- 2.2.2. The Five Components of Social Practice -- 2.2.3. Social Systems as Social Practice -- 2.2.4. Overcoming the Agency /Structure Dualism -- 2.2.5. Field of Relations -- 2.2.6. Web of Social Practice -- 2.2.7. Network of Attracting Clusters -- 2.2.8. Environment -- 2.2.9. System Dynamics -- 3. SACS Toolkit-Assemblage -- 3.0. Introducing Assemblage -- 3.1. The Key Features of Assemblage -- 3.2. The Six Steps of Assemblage -- 3.2.1. Step 1: The Research Question -- 3.2.2. The Core: Steps 2 through 4 -- 3.2.3. Step 5: The Working Model -- 3.2.4. Step 6: Conclusion -- 4. Overview of SACS -- 4.0. Web of Social Practices -- 4.1. The Network of Attracting Clusters -- 4.2. Internal Dynamics of SACS -- 4.2.1. Negotiated Ordering -- 4.2.2. Internal Trajectories -- 4.3. Environmental Forces -- 4.4. The Legitimacy of SACS -- 4.4.1. SACS as Enclosed Intellectual Space -- 4.4.2. The Five Research Areas of SACS -- 4.4. The Non-Corporate Government of SACS -- 4.4.4. The SACS Community -- 4.4.5. Common Concerns -- 4.4.6. Interstitial Character of SACS -- 4.4.7. Why Not Call SACS the Sociology of Complexity? -- 4.5. The Formal Emergence of SACS -- 4.6. Situating SACS -- 5. Environmental Forces -- 5.0. Sociology's Complexity -- 5.0.1. Wallerstein's Gulbenkian Commission -- 5.0.2. SACS's Millennial Musings -- 5.1. Systems Thinking -- 5.1.1. Systems Science: A Brief History -- 5.1.2. Systems Science -- 5.1.3. Cybernetics -- 5.1.4. Systems Science and SACS -- 5.1.5. Artificial Intelligence -- 5.2. Complexity Science -- 5.2.1. The Making of Complexity Science -- 5.2.2. Popularizing Complexity -- 5.2.3. Material Conditions -- 5.2.4. A New Vocabulary -- 5.2.5. Topics of Study -- 5.2.6. Method -- 6. Five Areas of Research -- 6.0. Complex Social Network Analysis -- 6.0.1. The Sub-clusters of CSNA -- 6.1. Computational Sociology -- 6.1.1. What Makes Computational Sociology Unique -- 6.1.2. Three Subfields of Study -- 6.2. British-based School of Complexity -- 6.2.1. Complexity Science Lineage -- 6.2.2. Complexity Science and Sociological Methods -- 6.2.3. C2 -- 6.2.4. Integrating Complexity Science and Sociological Topics -- 6.2.5. Sociology Intellectual Traditions -- 6.3. The Luhmann School of Complexity -- 6.3.1. The Luhmann School of Complexity Profile -- 6.3.2. Niklas Luhmann: A Basic Review -- 6.3.3. The LSC Today -- 6.4. Sociocybernetics -- 6.4.1. Complexity Science Lineage -- 6.4.2. Sociology Lineage -- 6.4.3. Complexity Science and Sociology Method -- 6.4.4. Complexity Science and Sociological Topics -- 7. The System of SACS -- 7.0. Why More Method? -- 7.0.1. More Data and Techniques -- 7.0.2. Into the Swamp Again! -- 7.1. Data and Procedures -- 7.1.1. Is a Network a System? -- 7.1.2. Choosing the Top 25 Scholars -- 7.1.3. Database -- 7.1.4. Analytic Procedure -- 7.1.5. How to Read the Map 6 -- 7.1.6. Map 6 versus Map 4 -- 7.2. The Emergence and Growth of SACS (1998-2008) -- 7.2.1. The Emergence of SACS -- 7.2.2. A Decade of Growth (1998-2008) -- 8. SACS Today -- 8.0. Negotiated Ordering -- 8.0.1. Generating Map 6 -- 8.0.2. General Structure of SACS -- 8.0.3. Degree of Connectedness -- 8.0.4. Powerbrokers -- 8.1. Internal Division -- 8.1.1. The Interstitial Character of SACS -- 8.1.2. The Chaos of Sociology -- 8.1.3. The Fractal Dynamics of SACS -- 8.2. The Near Future of SACS -- 9. Conclusion -- 9.0. Overview -- 9.1. Why Read This Book -- 9.2. Expressing Old Ideas in New Ways -- 9.3. Reviewing SACS -- 9.4. SACS Toolkit -- 9.5. What We Learned About SACS -- 9.5.1. The Impact of SACS -- 10. Mapping Complexity -- 10.0. The Map -- 10.1. Map 1: The New Science of Complexity -- 10.2. Map 2: SACS Town -- 10.3. Graph 1: The Pareto Distribution -- 10.4. Figure 1: Venn Diagram of SACS Folders -- 10.5. Map 3: Fill-in-the-Blanks Tool -- 10.6. Figure 2: Web of Social Practices for SACS -- 10.7. Figure 3: Web of Social Practices as Molecule -- 10.8. Flowcharts 1 and 2 -- 10.9. Map 4: The Community of SACS -- 10.10. Map 5: The Lineage of Computational Sociology -- 10.11. Map 6: Social Network Model of SACS -- 10.12. Map 7: Social Network Map of SACS Minus Gatekeepers -- 11. References -- 12. Index.

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