A New Kind of Social Science: Study of Self-organization of Human Dynamics

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Lulu.com, 2003 - 184 pages
This book introduces a new kind of social inquiry centered in exploration of the self-organizing nature of human dynamics. By studying the ways self-organization manifests: its origin and characteristics, its stimulators and impediments, catalysts and inhibitors, factors which support, sustain, impede, or block its inward and outward realizations, the author reveals new challenging insights which remain hidden if one continues to study society as an object of research separated from the unique and fathomless richness of the whirling complexity of individual dynamics. The author links the study of social complexity with his original research into uncertainty inherent in human knowing and learning. This makes the book equally attractive and valuable as a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide into the exciting dimensions of a new kind of social science for researchers and students in the field of social complexity, management, psychology and philosophy.
 

Contents

Complex Nature of Human Dynamics
1
Complexity of Human Life
19
Law of Requisite Vorticity in Human Dynamics
31
Strange Attractors of Meaning
73
Swarmlike Dynamics in Organisations
81
Complex Dynamics of Human Identity
93
Spiritual and Ethical Dimensions of Selforganization
111
Dynamics of Communication
117
Dynamics of Leadership
125
Narrative Dynamics
141
Magic of Creativity
153
The Approach of Fuzziology
161
Time and Selforganization
175
Journey beyond System Thinking
185
Conclusion
195
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