Coping with Uncertainty: Insights from the New Sciences of Chaos, Self-Organization, and Complexity FROM THE PUBLISHER
This study applies the findings of the new nonlinear sciences to understanding the processes of growing complexity and intensifying chaos in the modern world. It also identifies and reviews approaches for living and coping with these trends. Uri Merry seeks to clarify the role of chaos in the transformation of the social sciences to new orders by re-examining and re-evaluating some of the basic tenets of modern social and behavioral science in light of theories of chaos, self-organization, and complexity. Divided into three sections, the work provides an overview of the major findings of the new science of chaos; analyzes why chaos is on the upsurge and why human society is experiencing such anxiety about it; and surveys some of the major approaches for dealing with chaos in society, organizations, and our personal lives.
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This study applies the findings of the new nonlinear sciences to understanding the processes of growing complexity and intensifying chaos in the modern world. It also identifies and reviews approaches for living and coping with these trends.
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Findings from the new sciences of chaos, self-organization, and complexity light the way toward helping individuals and societies cope with uncertainty. After an overview of the current advances in the new sciences, the author focuses on how the new sciences manifest themselves in nations, institutions, and families, and discusses why uncertainty is intensifying. The final chapter on human agency in evolution through creating guided imagery of the future should give the wary reader an idea of the broad scope of the book. Paper edition $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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