The atlas of social complexity / Brian Castellani (Professor and Director, Research Methods Centre, Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, UK; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, US) and Lasse Gerrits (Professor and Academic Director, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castellani, Brian, author.

Gerrits, Lasse, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social systems.

Complexity (Philosophy)--Social aspects.

Complexity (Philosophy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"Embark on a riveting journey through the study of social complexity with The Atlas of Social Complexity. Over three decades of scientific exploration unfold, unravelling the enigmatic threads that compose the fabric of society. From the dance of bacteria, to human-machine interactions, to the ever-shifting dynamics of power in social networks, this Atlas maps the evolution of our understanding of social complexity. Brian Castellani's and Lasse Gerrits' Atlas is not merely retrospective. It is a compass pointing to uncharted territories: new directions for research and intellectual debate. With wit and insight, they invite the reader to ponder unanswered questions, taking them on a quest for alternative ways to understand the intricate complexities of societies. The Atlas of Social Complexity is a thrilling expedition into the heart of what makes us human: from cognition, emotion, consciousness, the dynamics of human psychology, to social networks, collective behaviour, politics and governance, technology and planning, and the practice of social interventions. The Atlas also visits cross-cutting themes such as intersectionality, configurational complexity, and research methods. Organised around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity. It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social complexity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. Theme 1: The social complexity imagination

2. Origins of the study of social complexity

3. Thirteen situations

4. Cartography and constructing the atlas

5. Theme 2: Cognition, emotion, and consciousness

6. Autopoiesis and cellular cognition

7. Bacteria and the brain

8. Immune system cognition

9. Brain-based cognition, emotion and consciousness

10. The self

11. Human-machine

12. Theme 3: Dynamics of human psychology

13. Human psychology as dynamical system

14. Psychopathology of mental disorders

15. Healing and the therapeutic process

16. Mindfulness, imagination, and creativity

17. Theme 4: Living in global-ecological social systems

18. Complex social psychology

19. Collective behaviour, social movements and mass psychology

20. Configurational social science

21. The local and the global: Complexities of place

22. Socio-technological life

23. Governance, politics and technocracy

Vi. The atlas of social complexity

24. The challenges of applying complexity

25. Economics in an unstable world

26. Resilience and all that jazz

27. Theme 5: Charting a new methods territory

28. Make love, not models

29. Revisiting complex causality

30. Mapping the new methodological terrain

31. Getting philosophically real

32. Theme 6: The unfinished space

Appendix 1: List of respondents

Appendix 2: Speculative references.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781789909524 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.