Complex Systems Research focuses on systems comprising sets of agents that form unified wholes in their interactions, relationships, or dependencies. Their emergent, global behaviors cannot be predicted on the basis of the rules governing the individual agents. Definitions and descriptions of complex systems revolve around such terms as emergent, adaptive, nonlinear, irreducible, noncompressible, non-decomposable, multi-level, self-organizing, context-sensitive, and adaptive.
Learn More... Social Dynamics (Sociodynamics) (Auguste Comte, 1840s) – an approach to Sociology that focuses on change – that is, that concentrates its research on societies and social systems that have undergone or that are undergoing significant transformation. Contemporary studies of Social Dynamics tend to be aligned with Complex Systems Research, attending in particular on the co-specifying behaviors of agents and groups.
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Davis, B., & Francis, K. (2024). “Social Dynamics (Sociodynamics)” in Discourses on Learning in Education. https://learningdiscourses.com.
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