Understanding change

Understanding change: models, methodologies, and metaphors

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1 Models, methodologies, and metaphors on the move 1 2 Climate change : complexity, chaos and order 37 3 Chaos in social systems : assessment and relevance 51 4 Economics, chaos and environmental complexity 59 5 The topology of the possible 67 6 Neutrality as a paradigm of change 85 7 Using evolutionary analogies in social science : two case studies 89 8 The grip of history and the scope for novelty : some results and open questions on path dependence in economic processes 99 9 Analyzing path d…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Understanding change : models, methodologies, and metaphors / ; edited by Andreas Wimmer and Reinhart Kössler.

Summary

1 Models, methodologies, and metaphors on the move 1 2 Climate change : complexity, chaos and order 37 3 Chaos in social systems : assessment and relevance 51 4 Economics, chaos and environmental complexity 59 5 The topology of the possible 67 6 Neutrality as a paradigm of change 85 7 Using evolutionary analogies in social science : two case studies 89 8 The grip of history and the scope for novelty : some results and open questions on path dependence in economic processes 99 9 Analyzing path dependence : lessons from the social sciences 129 10 Path dependence and historical contingency in biology 140 11 The new institutional economics : can it deliver for change and development? 161 12 Institutions, politics and culture : a case for 'old' institutionalism in the study of historical change 177 13 Exporting metaphors, concepts and methods from the natural sciences to the social sciences and vice versa 187 14 Multiple modernities in the framework of a comparative evolutionary perspective 199 15 On modernity and wellbeing 219 16 Multiplicity in non-linear systems 222 17 Historical-institutionalism in political science and the problem of change 237 18 Social science and history : how predictable is political behavior? 260 19 Reconstructing change in historical systems : are there commonalities between evolutionary biology and the humanities? 270 20 History, uncertainty, and disciplinary difference : concluding observations by a social scientist 285.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2006.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xiv, 314 sayfa : : şekil ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1403939411, 9781403939418
  • oclc:ocn984465254
  • Dewey Decimal:303.4

Subjects

Bilgiye disiplinlerarası yaklaşım Bilim- Metodoloji Değişim Sosyal bilimler -- Felsefe Sosyal bilimler- metodoloji Sosyal Değişim

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