Complexities 2

Various Approaches in the Field of Social and Human Sciences
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-78630-876-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Awareness of complexity in science and technology dates back to the 1970s. However, all social systems tend to develop structures that become more complex over time, be it within families, tribes, cities, states, or societal and economic organizations.

Complexities 2 covers a broad array of fields, from justice and linguistics to education and organizational management. The aim of this book is to show, without aiming to provide a comprehensive overview, the diversity of approaches and behaviors towards the obstacle of complexity in understanding and achieving human actions.

When we see complexity as the incompleteness of knowledge and the uncertainty of the future, we realize that simplifying is not an adequate approach to complexity, even in the humanities and social sciences. This book explores the relationship between order and disorder in this field of knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briffaut, Jean-Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Jean-Pierre BRIFFAUT

Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Complexity of Criminal Investigations 1
Jérôme BARLATIER

Chapter 2 Complexity and Models in Social and Human Sciences 33
Jean-Pierre BRIFFAUT

Chapter 3 Detangling the Linguistic Quagmire of Bad Information 71
Philippe CAPET

Chapter 4 Complexity in the Social Sciences: Is it a Transforming Perspective? 119
Philip HAYNES

Chapter 5 Complexity as Duality? A Connection in Question 143
Maryvonne HOLZEM and Jacques LABICHE

Chapter 6 Organization, Models and Representations: From Complexity to Power 179
Yvon PESQUEUX

Chapter 7 Epistemological Reflections on the Lifecycle of Crisis and Resilience in Organizations 205
Gilles TENEAU

Chapter 8 The Complexity of the Educational Revolution: Framework and Case-Study 221
Raf VANDERSTRAETEN and Frederik VAN DER GUCHT

Postface 249
Daniel KROB

List of Authors 253

Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

Jean-Pierre Briffaut is a retired professor of Operations Management at the Institut Mines-Télécom, France. A member of the Institut Fredrik Bull, he is in charge of a working group on the complexity of systems of systems.