Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems

by Robert Keith Sawyer and R. Keith Sawyer

Book Overview

Can we understand important social issues by studying individual personalities and decisions? Or are societies somehow more than the people in them? Sociologists have long believed that psychology can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that if we have an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them, we can explain pretty much everything...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521606373
• ISBN13: 9780521606370
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"