Overview
- Offers a way to learn to think in a new way about the subject of study in the social sciences and humanities
- One can learn to think in complexity about the real complexity of a nonlinear complex reality
- Opening the social sciences by offering a new agenda for these sciences by taken complexity not for granted but as a serious topic of study with great potential for humanity and society at large
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all.
The main focus of this book is on new thinking in complexity, with complexity to be taken as derived from the Latin word complexus: ‘that which is interwoven.’
The trans-disciplinary approach advocated here will be trans-disciplinary in two ways: firstly, by going beyond the separate disciplines within the fields of both natural sciences and social sciences, and, secondly, by going beyond the separate cultures of the natural sciences and of the social sciences and humanities.
Reviews
“For the theorist of transdisciplinarity New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities is a useful source. There is substantial evidence of creative pathways towards comprehending and applying transdisciplinary strategies in research. … This approach could serve as a useful roadmap towards the implementation of transdisciplinarity.” (Johann Tempelhoff, TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, Vol. 7 (1), July, 2011)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ton Jörg has been an educational scientist since 1982 at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam (BSc 1970). In 1969, he started to study Psychology at the same university (M.A. 1977). He worked as an evaluation researcher in different national (on adult education, and physics education) and international projects (3rd SISS-International Science Project). In 1994, he finished his dissertation about the choice of physics as an examination subject. He has been involved in complex systems and complexity thinking since 1971. He wrote articles on invitation to open up a conversation on complexity and education, for journals like Educational Research Review, in 2007, and for Complicity, in 2009, with extended comments of experts in the field.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities
Book Subtitle: A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach
Authors: Ton Jörg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1303-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1302-4Published: 09 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8513-6Published: 18 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1303-1Published: 09 August 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour