La Porte Organized Social Complexity

Challenge to Politics and Policy
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6996-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1504, 390 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

La Porte, Todd R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
List of Figures and Tables, pg. xi
Preface, pg. xiii
Chapter I. Organized Social Complexity: Explication of a Concept, pg. 3
Chapter II. Complexity and the Limits of Human Understanding, pg. 40
Chapter III. Organizational Complexity in the New Industrial State: The Role of Technology, pg. 77
Chapter IV. Complexity, Planning, and Public Order, pg. 119
Chapter V. The Use of Systems Constructs in Simplifying Organized Social Complexity, pg. 151
Chapter VI. Analysis of Complex Systems: An Experiment and Its Implications For Policy Making, pg. 175
Chapter VII. On Studying the Future Behavior of Complex Systems, pg. 220
Chapter IX. Complexity as a Theoretical Problem: Wider Perspectives in Political Theory, pg. 281
Chapter X. Complexity and Uncertainty: Challenge to Action, pg. 332
Bibliography, pg. 357
Index, pg. 371