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If your complexity model ends with a tidy conclusion, it isn’t complexity. We end our Atlas unfinished! Incompleteness isn’t failure. It’s method. It’s imagination. It’s the only honest map we've got. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The present future of methods research is applied complexity. The Atlas, Ch30, explores these methods, from case-based to systems mapping to trajectory QCA. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Ch29 Atlas: Complex Causality. Most models flatten social life into neat causes and effects. Real complexity is tangled, temporal. Drop the clockwork. Think in cases. Trace feedback. Embrace the mess. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Computational models have their place, but social complexity demands a wider modelling platform, including qualitative and mixed methods, all grounded in the ontological messiness of social reality. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social r sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...
Final Atlas theme: methods. From critically engaging computation to embracing systems mapping, QCA, & complex realism, we ask: can our methods meet the complexity challenge? Not yet, but we're close. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Resilience isn’t just bouncing back. It’s co-evolving, adapting, transforming. We live inside socioecological systems. Our survival and well-being depend on their resilience. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...
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Economies aren’t machines seeking balance; they're living systems in disequilibrium: adaptive, entangled, unpredictable. Complexity economics doesn’t fix old models. It re-imagines the system entirely. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
CH24 Atlas: Policy chases simple fixes for complex problems. Wicked problems aren’t puzzles, they’re living systems. Think adaptively, act collectively, & embrace complexity as a tool, not theory. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
Complexity scientists: stop acting like policy is a physics problem. Wicked problems aren’t just complex; they're political. Engage power, irrationality, and governance to be useful. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
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Digital space/time intertwine with the urban, impacting how we plan, model, live. This “space of flows” reinforces megacities as central nodes, deepens inequalities, & reshapes mobility. See CH21 of Atlas @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
Ch20 of the Atlas introduces Configurational Social Science, which combines intersectionality & configurational theory to address complexities of living in systems: power, identity, justice, equity. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
In Digital Anthropocene, humans & machines co-create complex systems where agency is shared and solutions aren’t simple. Ch22 of the Atlas calls for critical, reflexive thinking to navigate our new world. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
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Social psychology links human behavior to social systems, but it's largely ignored by complexity scientist. The Atlas advocates a sociological social psychology as a fix. sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2024/12/as-i... @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
The 'complexity turn' is over, but the 'social science turn in complexity' is just beginning. From urban planning to economics - see the Atlas to explore the new dynamics of living in complex systems. @lassegerrits.bsky.social @elgarpublishing.bsky.social sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...
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