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Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
ISBN/GTIN

Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences

The State of the Art
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CHF198.00

Beschreibung

This expanded and updated edition revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, widening social inequality, and impending social and ecological catastrophe wrought by global warming.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-032-10085-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandGebunden
ErscheinungslandVereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum26.09.2022
Auflage2. A.
Seiten248 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 174 mm, Höhe 246 mm
Gewicht1100 g
IllustrationenFarb., s/w. Abb.
Artikel-Nr.25124535
KatalogBuchzentrum
Datenquelle-Nr.38577173
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Autor

David Byrne is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Applied Social Science at Durham University, UK. His research interests include complexity theory, post-industrial social structures, urban systems, taxation policy, the privatization of welfare systems, quantitative methods, and case-based methods. He is the author of Applying Social Science: The Role of Social Research in Politics, Policy and Practice (Policy Press, 2011), Class after Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID: A Complex Realist Approach (Routledge, 2021) and co-author of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art (First Edition, Routledge, 2013) and Paying for the Welfare State in the 21st Century (Policy Press, 2017).

Gillian Callaghan is a teacher of social theory and qualitative methods and an experienced evaluator of social and health interventions. Her research interests include complexity theory, deindustrialization and post-industrial social structure, class, social capital and community, and issues of power, participation, and governance. She is the author of numerous journal articles and co-author of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art (First Edition, Routledge, 2013).