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Everything about Social complexity
Conceptual framework
In sociology, social complexity is a conceptual framework used in the analysis of society. In the sciences, contemporary definitions of complexity are found in systems theory, wherein the phenomenon being studied has many parts and many possible arrangements of the parts; simultaneously, what is complex and what is simple are relative and change in time. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Social complexityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social EnterpriseInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Anti-ŒdipeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Social Identity ComplexityCited 1,280 times
- Go sideways: Computational sociologyA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Mathematical sociologyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Social Identity Complexity
Measuring social complexity
Social Complexity Can Drive Vocal Complexity
Social brains, simple minds: does social complexity really require cognitive complexity?
Clarifying and expanding the social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity
Social complexity and sustainability
Linking social complexity and vocal complexity: a parid perspective
Quantifying social complexity
🆕 Influential since 2022
Ethical Complexity of Social Change: Negotiated Actions of a Social Enterprise
Scale, context, and heterogeneity: the complexity of the social space
Social diversity reduces the complexity and cost of fostering fairness
Coevolution of social and communicative complexity in lemurs
Navigating complexity with the four pillars of social sustainability
📚 Books worth reading
Anti-ŒdipeGilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari · 1972
AntifragileNassim Nicholas Taleb, Genís Sánchez Barberán · 2012
Sex and repression in savage societyBronisław Malinowski · 1927
Skin in the GameNassim Nicholas Taleb · 2017
Thinking in systemsDonella H. Meadows, Diana Wright · 2008
Thinking in complexityKlaus Mainzer · 1994
Global LockdownJulia Chinyere Oparah · 2004
Crusaders for American liberalismLouis Filler · 1939
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