Social Complexity

What is a paradigm?

• A worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject.

• A social worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject.

• A worldview underlying the theories and methodology of social change.

• A new explanation of the world by the artist.

What is another name for the Newtonian Paradigm?

• The Clockwork Universe

• Linear systems theory

• All of the above

What do we mean by "materialistic and atomistic" in reference to Linear systems theory?

• sees the world as a collection of material and atoms

• sees humans as objects and atoms

• sees the world as a set of isolated objects that interact in a cause and effect fashion.

• I don't remember

What is the other name for reductionism?

• Analysis

• Seductionism

• method

• Inquiry

What do we call the approach that "considers that the only thing in the social world that is real are the things that you can touch and see, which is individual humans."

• social sciences

• Complex Social Science

• Methodological Individualism

• Egoism

What do you call the " This paradigm is referred to as being what is called holistic, meaning that it is characterized by the belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole"

• Difficult

• Complex

• Complexity Theory

• Messy Theory

Which of these is a model of complexity theory

• Agent-Based Models

• Network Theory

• All of the above