Organized Social Complexity (eBook)

Challenge to Politics and Policy

Todd R. La Porte (Autor)

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2015
390 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6996-1 (ISBN)

Infos

One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this volume contend, has reached a point where accepted concepts fail to describe social and political phenomena adequately. The studies in this book reevaluate traditional assumptions. Part One defines organized social complexity and discusses the effects of technological change. Part Two assesses national planning and systems analysis, approaches supposed to provide direct control over social matters. Part Three describes methodological aspects and research applications, and Part Four provides retrospective and prospective views of theories on social complexity.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Absenteeism • Administrative Behavior • Ambiguity • Apathy • Calculation • Causality • Centration • Coercion • Committee • complex adaptive system • complex interdependence • complex society • Complex Systems • Consciousness • Consideration • decentralization • Decision-Making • Deliberation • disaster • distrust • Division of Labour • Dwight Waldo • Dynamic Programming • Dystopia • Economics • Efficiency • Émile Durkheim • Existentialism • Explanation • Externality • Extrapolation • For All Practical Purposes • Formal organization • Grand theory • ideal type • Ideology • Impossibility • Indication (medicine) • inference • Information Overload • Inseparability • Institution • Interconnection • interdependence • invisible Hand • isolationism • Liberalism • margin of error • Modernity • negative feedback • Obedience (human behavior) • of education • Oligopoly • organization • Organizational Theory • pessimism • Planning • policy analysis • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political System • Politics • Pragmatism • Predetermined variables • Prediction • Principle • Profession • Rationalization (sociology) • rebuttal • Religion • Requirement • result • shortage • Simulation • Social Complexity • social issue • Social organization • Social reality • Social Science • Social Theory • Sociocultural evolution • Sophistication • Sovereignty • Static Analysis • Structural adjustment • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Systems Theory • Technical group • The Administrative State • The End of Ideology • The Human Use of Human Beings • theory • The Spirit of the Laws • Thought • Trade-off • Traditionalist conservatism • Uncertainty • Urban renewal • Utilitarianism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6996-X / 140086996X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6996-1 / 9781400869961