Coping with Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Complexity

by Uri Merry

This study applies the findings of the new nonlinear sciences to understanding the processes of growing complexity and intensifying chaos in the modern world. It also identifies and reviews approaches for living and coping with these trends. Uri Merry seeks to clarify the role of chaos in the transformation of the social sciences to new orders by re-examining and re-evaluating some of the basic tenets of modern social and behavioral science in light...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275949109
• ISBN13: 9780275949105
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"