TY  - BOOK
AU  - Castellani,Brian
AU  - Hafferty,Frederic W.
TI  - Sociology and complexity science: a new field of inquiry 
T2  - Understanding complex systems
SN  - 3540884610
AV  - HM571 .C38 2009
U1  - 301.015118 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Berlin
PB  - Springer
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Computational complexity
KW  - Social systems
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Social networks
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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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