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Inklusion und Exklusion: Analysen zur Sozialstruktur und sozialen Ungleichheit
Springer Fachmedien 2009; US$ 39.99Sociocybernetics
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 161.00In an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this rapidly developing field. The authors address the core problems in social science caused by increasing societal complexity and analyze the inadequacy of many of the methodological tools still used for grappling... more...
Multi-Level Issues in Social Systems
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 99.95Provides an outlet for the discussion of multi-level problems and solutions across a variety of fields of study more...
Seeing Systems
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2007; US$ 32.95Seeing Systems is the most accessible, penetrating book available on the dynamics of systems. In it, Barry Oshry explains why so many efforts at creating more satisfying and productive systems end in disappointment, and proposes an entirely new framework for dealing with human behavior. Oshry shows us how teams of top executives regularly fall into... more...
Territory, Authority, Rights
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 35.00Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights , one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled... more...
The Radical Luhmann
Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 25.99In The Radical Luhmann, Hans-Georg Moeller focuses on Luhmann's paradigm shift from philosophy to theory, which introduced new perspectives on the contemporary world. Boldly breaking with the heritage of Western thought, Luhmann denied the central role of humans in social theory, particularly the possibility of autonomous agency. In this way, after... more...
Routledge International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 220.00World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and more than half a dozen academic disciplines. Aiming... more...
Accountability Without Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China. more...
Managing Complexity
Springer 2007; US$ 129.00Each chapter in Managing Complexity focuses on analyzing real-world complex systems and transferring knowledge from the complex-systems sciences to applications in business, industry and society. The interdisciplinary contributions range from markets and production through logistics, traffic control, and critical infrastructures, up to network design,... more...
Innovation in Complex Social Systems
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 160.00Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists. Innovation in Complex Social Systems uses a "hard... more...









