Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
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For the past two decades, complexity has informed a range of work across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of ways, from health inequalities to the organization of large scale firms. Some understand complexity as emergence from the rule-based interactions of simple agents and explore it through agent-based modelling. Others argue against such restricted complexity and for the development of case-based narratives deploying a much wider set of approaches and techniques. Major social theorists have been... more
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