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Social Dynamics

  • 23-06-2011 3:11pm
    #1
    Constant
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    Hi gang!

    Can anyone suggest any books on the topic of social dynamics? I'm very interested in it and would like to learn more. Cheers!


    - Constant


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  • #2
    Ostrom
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    Best one I've read recently is Keith Sawyer's Social Emergence

    If you're looking for a broad history of simulation and emergence, Brendan Halpin's (1999) paper in American Behavioral Scientist Simulation in Sociology is worth a look

    There are a few general texts on complexity theory, David Byrne's is probably the best (link)

    Waldrop's history of complexity is good - if a little dated now, and has a nice bio of Brian Arthur, one of Santa Fe's earlier contributors

    Castellani and Hafferty's Sociology and Complexity Science is more up to date, but I found it frustratingly laid out. It maps publications in complexity and related fields (emergence, cybernetics, world-systems etc).

    If you want something a bit heavier, Kiel and Eliot's Chaos Theory and the Social Sciences is one of the most often cited (especially Harvey and Reed's paper).


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