Can Complexity add anything to Critical Realism and the Morphogenetic Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melanie S Archer (0000-0002-4632-775X, University of Warwick, corresponding author), Margaret S Archer (University of Warwick Coventry UK) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 422-433 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12419 |
| OpenAlex | W4396508093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 33 |
Complexity is not ‘the same as simply complicated’. This is because its advocates present it as a theoretical approach to explaining major aspects of the social order, usually at the macro level, whereas many social phenomena, at any level, can be full of complications (such as the incidence of road accidents) without a unifying theoretical key. Thus, the latter have a strong tendency to remain at the level of events and their study to be confined to a ‘variables’ approach, statistically combining the most variable of potentially contributory factors, without being troubled by the absence, in particular cases of one or more common contributors to accidents (such as drivers’ alcohol consumption). But ‘the Complexity Turn’ does much more than leaving empiricism behind, like Critical Realism from its earliest beginnings, and in some hands is seen as the senior partner of these two approaches
Cognitive science · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Epistemology · Realism · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics
The Challenge of Complexity
Political Analysis
Sociology and modern systems theory.
The Importance of What We Care About
Complex Realism, Applied Social Science and Postdisciplinarity
The Contribution of Systemic Thought to Critical Realism
A Note on the Contingent Necessity of a Morphogenic Society and Human Flourishing
Morphogenic Society
Social Morphogenesis
Reconstructing Sociology
Engaging with the World
Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics
Realist Social Theory
The Reflexive Imperative in Late Modernity
Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation
Making our Way through the World
Why Things Matter to People
The Possibility of Naturalism
For Structure
The New Science and the Old
Critical realism and the ontology of persons
Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation
Culture and agency
Morphogenesis versus Structuration
The Myth of Cultural Integration
Twenty-First Century Dis-Ease? Habitual Reflexivity Or the Reflexive Habitus
From the habitus to an individual heritage of dispositions. Towards a sociology at the level of the individual
Cultural System or norm circles? An exchange
The Complexity Turn
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |