Social Emergence : Societies as Complex Systems

List of figures and tables vii Acknowledgments ix Emergence, complexity, and social science 1(9) The third wave of social systems theory 10(17) The history of emergence 27(19) Emergence in psychology 46(17) Emergence in sociology 63(37) Durkheim's theory of social emergence 100(25) Emergence and elisionism 125(20) Simulating social emergence with artificial societies 145(25) Communication and improvisation 170(19) The Emergence Paradigm 189(42) References 231(30) Index 261