Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems R. Keith Sawyer

Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems

Author: R. Keith Sawyer
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Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems
Author
R. Keith Sawyer
ISBN
9780521606370
Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that we can explain much about social life with an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them. R. Keith Sawyer argues, however, that societies are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates is by developing the concept of emergence, paying attention to multiple levels of analysis--individuals, interactions, and groups--with a dynamic focus on how social group phenomena emerge from communication processes among individual members.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: R. Keith SawyerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 10/27/2005ISBN: 9780521606370Pages: 288Weight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d
Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that we can explain much about social life with an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them. R. Keith Sawyer argues, however, that societies are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates is by developing the concept of emergence, paying attention to multiple levels of analysis--individuals, interactions, and groups--with a dynamic focus on how social group phenomena emerge from communication processes among individual members.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/27/2005
ISBN: 9780521606370
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d
Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that we can explain much about social life with an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them. R. Keith Sawyer argues, however, that societies are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates is by developing the concept of emergence, paying attention to multiple levels of analysis--individuals, interactions, and groups--with a dynamic focus on how social group phenomena emerge from communication processes among individual members.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/27/2005
ISBN: 9780521606370
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d