Why Society is a Complex Matter Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science /

Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents - people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ball, Philip (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Temas:
System theory.
Sociology-Methodology.
Dynamics.
Nonlinear theories.
Social sciences-Data processing.
Economics.
Communication.
Complex Systems.
Sociological Methods.
Applied Dynamical Systems.
Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Political Economy and Economic Systems.
Media and Communication.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Society: a Complex Problem
  •   On the Road: Predicting traffic
  •  Every Move You Make: Patterns of crowd movement
  • Making Your Mind Up: Norms and decisions
  •   Broken Windows: The spread and control of crime
  • The Social Web: Networks and their failures.-   Spreading It Around: Mobility, disease and epidemics
  • After the Crash: Economic and financial systems
  •   Love Thy Neighbour: How to foster cooperation
  • Living Cities: Urban development as a complex system
  • The Transformation of War: Modelling modern conflict
  • Towards a Living Earth Simulator: The FuturICT Project.

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