Why Society is a Complex Matter (Record no. 102936)
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| control field | 978-3-642-29000-8 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 9783642290008 |
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| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-3-642-29000-8 |
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| Classification number | QC1-999 |
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| Subject category code | JHBC |
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| Subject category code | PSAF |
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| Subject category code | SCI064000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 621 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ball, Philip. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Why Society is a Complex Matter |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by Philip Ball. |
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| Edition statement | 1. |
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| -- | Berlin, Heidelberg : |
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| -- | Imprint: Springer, |
| -- | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 80p. 35 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| Formatted contents note | Society: a Complex Problem -- On the Road: Predicting traffic -- Every Move You Make: Patterns of crowd movement -- Making Your Mind Up: Norms and decisions -- Broken Windows: The spread and control of crime -- The Social Web: Networks and their failures.- Spreading It Around: Mobility, disease and epidemics -- After the Crash: Economic and financial systems -- Love Thy Neighbour: How to foster cooperation -- Living Cities: Urban development as a complex system -- The Transformation of War: Modelling modern conflict -- Towards a Living Earth Simulator: The FuturICT Project. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be ‘self-organized’. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that ‘top-down’ approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a ‘bottom-up’ approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities. Building on these successes, the book argues that the complex-systems view of the social sciences has now matured sufficiently for it to be possible, desirable and perhaps essential to attempt a grander objective: to integrate these efforts into a unified scheme for studying, understanding and ultimately predicting what happens in the world we have made. Such a scheme would require the mobilization and collaboration of many different research communities, and would allow society and its interactions with the physical environment to be explored through realistic models and large-scale data collection and analysis. It should enable us to find new and effective solutions to major global problems such as conflict, disease, financial instability, environmental despoliation and poverty, while avoiding unintended policy consequences. It could give us the foresight to anticipate and ameliorate crises, and to begin tackling some of the most intractable problems of the twenty-first century. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social sciences |
| General subdivision | Data processing. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Engineering. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economics. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social sciences |
| General subdivision | Methodology. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Methodology of the Social Sciences. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Complexity. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economic Systems. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Communication Studies. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Title | Springer eBooks |
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| Display text | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783642289996 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29000-8 |
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