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 technological structures such as roads and computer networks - society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-642-29000-8
- EAN: 9783642290008
- Produktnummer: 18251144
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 60 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'973 KB
- Auflage: 2012
- Abbildungen: 35 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Philip Ball http://www.philipball.co.uk/ is a very well known science writer, former editor for Nature, and author of many popular science books.
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