The Empirical Investigation of Non-Linear Dynamics in the Social World. Ontology, Methodology and Data
Across much of social science, linear models hold sway, but they have significant limitations. This article makes the case for studying social processes as co-evolving systems, involving non-linear dynamics. Co-evolution of species in the natural world is a blind process. In the social world in cont...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Sociologica |
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| Online Access: | https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/10819 |