Chaos, Order, and Sociological Theoy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2274387
AutoresPatrick L Baker, Patrick Baker (Mount Allison University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen63
Número2
Páginas123-149
Fecha de publicación1993-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-682x.1993.tb00300.x
OpenAlexW1972527294
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30
Referencias citadas60

This article reexamines, in historical context, the 'problem of order' and change in sociological theory in the light of the findings of Chaos Theory. The value of this new perspective is that order and disorder, order and change, are no longer presented as irreconcilable opposites but as dimensions of the same process. Order generates chaos, and chaos generates order. These ideas are linked into a holistic perspective in which 'centriphery' is seen as an attractor that accounts for order and change in human social life and entropy as an equal partner to information/energy in the creative thrust of human social life

Attractor · Chaos theory · Chaotic · Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Order (exchange · Order and disorder · Perspective (graphical · Physics · Social order · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Chaos, Complexity, and Education · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Mathematics · Artificial Intelligence · Law · Philosophy