New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities

A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach
2011
ISBN: 978-94-017-8513-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 321 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all.
The main focus of this book is on new thinking in complexity, with complexity to be taken as derived from the Latin word complexus: ‘that which is interwoven.’
The trans-disciplinary approach advocated here will be trans-disciplinary in two ways: firstly, by going beyond the separate disciplines within the fields of both natural sciences and social sciences, and, secondly, by going beyond the separate cultures of the natural sciences and of the social sciences and humanities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jörg, Ton

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents. -Mission of the Book.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Crisis in the Social Sciences.- Chapter 2: Giving Birth to a New Science – Setting the Agenda.- Chapter 3: A New Agenda for the Social Sciences.- Chapter 4: On Becoming Reflective about our Viewing and Doing Science.- Chapter 5: The Reality of Reality.- Chapter 6: New Ways of Knowing about the Complexity of Reality.- Introduction to Chapters 7 to 9.-Chapter 7: Rethinking Interaction.- Chapter 8: Rethinking Causality.- Chapter 9: Rethinking the Unit of Study.- Chapter 10: The Complexity of Complexity. - Chapter 11: The Complexity of Human Interaction.- Chapter 12: Summary and Conclusions. References.- Name Index.- Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ton Jörg has been an educational scientist since 1982 at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam (BSc 1970). In 1969, he started to study Psychology at the same university (M.A. 1977). He worked as an evaluation researcher in different national (on adult education, and physics education) and international projects (3rd SISS-International Science Project). In 1994, he finished his dissertation about the choice of physics as an examination subject. He has been involved in complex systems and complexity thinking since 1971. He wrote articles on invitation to open up a conversation on complexity and education, for journals like Educational Research Review, in 2007, and for Complicity, in 2009, with extended comments of experts in the field.