Section: Events
Other Events - 2006 / 2007
Speaker: John Urry, David Byrne & Gregor McLennan (University of Lancaster, University of Durham & University of Bristol)
Title: Complexity Theory Symposium
Date: 1st December 2006, 1:00pm
Location: Adam Ferguson Building, Room 124/125
Complexity theory is a recently developed approach to social theory and research practice which can be used to analyse unpredictable and self-organising phenomena such as the internet, global protest movements and the 'glocalisation' processes. The speakers at this symposium will be critically interrogating concepts such as 'non-linearity', 'emergence', 'self-organisation' and 'the edge of chaos', whilst exploring how they can be used to make sense of important contemporary phenomena in the social and political worlds.
John Urry (University of Lancaster), 'Complexity and the Car System'
David Byrne (University of Durham), 'Can We Establish Cause in Relation to the Trajectories of Complex Systems? A Review of the Potential of the Methods of Social Science for Understanding Complex Systems'
Gregor McLennan (University of Bristol), 'Complexity Rules? Four Complications, Three Dangers, Two Conclusions'
Organising Committee:
Stephen Kemp (s.kemp@ed.ac.uk); Nick Prior (n.prior@ed.ac.uk); Diego De La Hoz Del Hoyo (s0566868@sms.ed.ac.uk); Gregor Schuner (g.schuner@sms.ed.ac.uk)
Hosted By University of Edinburgh Sociology
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