The Atlas of Social Complexity

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Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Theme 1: the social complexity imagination
2 Origins of the study of social complexity
3 Thirteen situations
4 Cartography and constructing the atlas
5 Theme 2: cognition, emotion and consciousness
6 Autopoiesis and cellular cognition
7 Bacteria and the brain
8 Immune system cognition
9 Brain-based cognition, emotion and consciousness
10 The Self
11 Human-machine
12 Theme 3: dynamics of human psychology
13 Human psychology as dynamical system
14 Psychopathology of mental disorders
15 Healing and the therapeutic process
16 Mindfulness, imagination and creativity
17 Theme 4: living in global-ecological social systems
18 Complex social psychology
19 Collective behaviour, social movements and mass psychology
20 Configurational social science
21 The local and the global: complexities of place
22 Socio-technological life
23 Governance, politics and technocracy
24 The challenges of applying complexity
25 Economics in an unstable world
26 Resilience and all that jazz
27 Theme 5: charting a new methods territory
28 Make love, not models
29 Revisiting complex causality
30 Mapping the new methodological terrain
31 Getting philosophically real
32 Theme 6: the unfinished space
Appendix 1: list of respondents
Appendix 2: speculative references
Index