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Book Overview
Click below on Introduction and Preface for a preview of our book, titled "MAKING SOCIAL CHANGE - Understanding How Complexity Science Explains, Predicts & Possibly Controls Major Social Change".
Table of Contents
Preface
Dedication
1. Introduction
Part I
2. The Four States of Complex Systems
3. Changes among the States of Discrete Systems
4. The Connection of D/C to Social Change
Part II
5. Changing The State Of Small Groups
6. Social Focusing And Corporate Strategies
7. The Emergence Of Art Systems
8. Conclusions
Comments
"This book is an invitation, a provocation, and a challenge to any sociologist and social scientist to rethink social change, a very old sociological topic."
Dr. Bernd R. Hornung
Senior Researcher,
Marburg University, Germany;
Former President, RC51 (Sociocybernetics), International Sociological Association
"From student to CEO, Making Social Change brings value and perspective."
Frank Popof,
Former CEO of The Dow Chemical Company
"This book opens a door for a variety of interested readers, from those scientifically engaged in complexity science, to those of us who are fascinated by how change and positive development occurs even in apparently static systems."
Dr. Madeline Lennon
Professor Emerita, University of Western Ontario;
Former Director, Comparative Literature and Culture Program;
Former Chair, Department of Visual Arts
"[Making Social Change] presents complexity theory in an engaging treatise with compelling examples of social change. If you are interested in social change, or just looking for intellectual stimulation this book will probably convert you to looking at our world through the 'complexity lens'."
Dr. Barrie Evans,
Chief Psychologist, Thames Valley District School Board;
Former Clinical Director and Executive Director, Vanier Children's Services, London, Ontario
A fundamental understanding of why organizations respond the way they do and how they affect, and are affected by, the environment around them, is presented in this book.
Based on studies of computer models, the authors propose that any social system must be in one of four possible states. The fact that two of the states are order and chaos is not surprising. However, the fact that between the two is the complex state where creative things can emerge is exciting and the fact that there are two types of order is significant. The authors use two ideas of sociology, namely differentiation (inside structure) and centrality (outside impact), proposing that their relative values produce the state, or change of state, of the social system.
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