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Princeton University Press
Language
English
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"This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity...
2) On the principles of social gravity: how human systems work, from the family to the United Nations
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Vernon Press, an imprint of Vernon Art and Sciences Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Publisher
Hart Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems. The authors demonstrate how this theory alters our understanding of some of the most important and controversial issues within law: the nature of judicial communication and legal argument; the claim that it can be right to disobey law; the character of legal pluralism and globalisation; time and its construction within law;...
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Theory of society volume 2
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Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Theory of society volume 1
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Professor Scott E. Page from University of Michigan introduces you to complexity science. You learn how this vibrant and still evolving discipline helps you understand the nature and behavior of systems formed of financial markets, corporations, native cultures, governments, and more.
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time and that cities can become segregated. But how do such mechanisms work? Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena should focus on the social mechanisms that bring them about. This book evaluates the major features of this approach, focusing on the significance...