Complexities 2
Description
Awareness of complexity in science and technology dates back to the 1970s. However, all social systems tend to develop structures that become more complex over time, be it within families, tribes, cities, states, or societal and economic organizations.
Complexities 2 covers a broad array of fields, from justice and linguistics to education and organizational management. The aim of this book is to show, without aiming to provide a comprehensive overview, the diversity of approaches and behaviors towards the obstacle of complexity in understanding and achieving human actions.
When we see complexity as the incompleteness of knowledge and the uncertainty of the future, we realize that simplifying is not an adequate approach to complexity, even in the humanities and social sciences. This book explores the relationship between order and disorder in this field of knowledge.
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Jean-Pierre Briffaut is a retired professor of Operations Management at the Institut Mines-Télécom, France. A member of the Institut Fredrik Bull, he is in charge of a working group on the complexity of systems of systems.
Content
Preface ix
Jean-Pierre BRIFFAUT
Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Complexity of Criminal Investigations 1
Jérôme BARLATIER
Chapter 2 Complexity and Models in Social and Human Sciences 33
Jean-Pierre BRIFFAUT
Chapter 3 Detangling the Linguistic Quagmire of Bad Information 71
Philippe CAPET
Chapter 4 Complexity in the Social Sciences: Is it a Transforming Perspective? 119
Philip HAYNES
Chapter 5 Complexity as Duality? A Connection in Question 143
Maryvonne HOLZEM and Jacques LABICHE
Chapter 6 Organization, Models and Representations: From Complexity to Power 179
Yvon PESQUEUX
Chapter 7 Epistemological Reflections on the Lifecycle of Crisis and Resilience in Organizations 205
Gilles TENEAU
Chapter 8 The Complexity of the Educational Revolution: Framework and Case-Study 221
Raf VANDERSTRAETEN and Frederik VAN DER GUCHT
Postface 249
Daniel KROB
List of Authors 253
Index 255
