New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach (Hardcover)

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.- C hapter 6: New Ways of Knowing about the Complexity of Reality.- I ntroduction to Chapters 7 to 9.-C hapter 7: Rethinking Interaction.- Chapter 8: Rethinking Causality.- C hapter 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.