Social Synthesis: Finding Dynamic Patterns in Complex Social Systems
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Methodology: towards a representation of complex system dynamics -- Introduction -- Complexity science -- Sensitivity to initial conditions -- Emergence -- Autopoiesis -- Feedback -- Networks -- Summarising the influences of complexity theory -- Understanding system change as patterns -- Complexity in economic systems -- Time and space -- Critical realism -- Case similarity…
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Methodology: towards a representation of complex system dynamics -- Introduction -- Complexity science -- Sensitivity to initial conditions -- Emergence -- Autopoiesis -- Feedback -- Networks -- Summarising the influences of complexity theory -- Understanding system change as patterns -- Complexity in economic systems -- Time and space -- Critical realism -- Case similarity and difference -- Convergence and divergence -- Complex causation -- Methodological conclusions -- Conclusions -- 2 The method: introducing Dynamic Pattern Synthesis -- Introduction -- Cluster Analysis -- Cluster Analysis: specific approaches -- Distance measures -- Hierarchical and nonhierarchical CA -- Clustering algorithms -- Dendrogram charts -- Icicle charts -- Using SPSS to calculate and compare cluster methods -- Further considerations of the effects of clustering algorithms -- Understanding variable relationships within cluster formulation -- Repeating CA over time -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis -- Crisp set QCA -- Accounting for time in case based methods -- Combining the two methods: CA and QCA -- Qualitative Comparative Analysis and software packages -- Applying QCA -- An alternative confirmation method: ANOVA -- The application of CA and QCA as a combined method -- Dynamic Pattern Synthesis: seven cities, three years later -- Threshold setting for binary crisp set conversion -- Prime implicant 'near misses' -- Other considerations for the DPS -- Conclusion -- 3 Macro examples of Dynamic Pattern Synthesis -- Introduction -- Macro case study 1: health and social care in Europe -- Macro case study 1, wave 1, 2004 -- Macro case study 1, wave 2, 2006 -- Macro case study 1, wave 4, 2010 -- Macro case study 1, wave 5, 2013
Macro case study 1: conclusions -- Macro case study 2: the evolution of the euro based economies -- Macro case study 2, wave 1, 2002 -- Macro case study 2, wave 2, 2006 -- Macro case study 2, wave 3, 2013 -- Macro case study 2: conclusions -- 4 A meso case study example: London boroughs -- Introduction -- Meso case study, 2010 -- Meso case study, 2011 -- Meso case study, 2012 -- Meso case study: conclusions -- 5 Micro case study example: older people in Sweden -- Micro case study: older people in Sweden born in 1918 -- Micro case study, wave 1, 2004 -- Micro case study, wave 2, 2006 -- Micro case study, wave 4, 2010 -- Conclusions for the micro case study -- 6 Conclusions -- Dynamic Pattern Synthesis and different dynamic typologies -- Reflections on complexity theory and DPS -- References -- Index
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- Publication Date:2017
- Edition:1st ed
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- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Milton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
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- Description:1 Online-Ressource (230 Seiten)
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- ISBN:9781315458519, 1315458519, 9781138208728, 1138208728
- oclc:on1021207647
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