The Atlas of Social Complexity

Brian Castellani, Professor and Director, Research Methods Centre, Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Durham University, UK; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, US and Lasse Gerrits, Professor and Academic Director, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Acknowledgments vii
1 Theme 1: The Social Complexity Imagination 8
2 Origins of the Study of Social Complexity 23
3 Thirteen Situations 43
4 Cartography and Constructing the Atlas 63
5 Theme 2: Cognition, Emotion, and Consciousness 70
6 Autopoiesis and Cellular Cognition 77
7 Bacteria and the Brain 82
8 Immune System Cognition 88
9 Brain-based Cognition, Emotion and Consciousness 99
10 The Self 120
11 Human-machine 140
12 Theme 3: dynamics of human psychology 149
13 Human psychology as dynamical system 157
14 Psychopathology of Mental Disorders 173
15 Healing and the therapeutic process 192
16 Mindfulness, imagination, and creativity 205
17 Theme 4: living in global-ecological social systems 216
18 Complex social Psychology 232
19 Collective behaviour, social movements and mass psychology 243
20 Configurational Social Science 261
21 The local and the global: complexities of place 297
22 Socio-technological life 321
23 Governance, politics and technocracy 342
vi The atlas of social complexity
24 The challenges of applying complexity 358
25 Economics in an unstable world 372
26 Resilience and all that jazz 384
27 Theme 5: charting a new methods territory 396
28 Make love, not models 398
29 Revisiting complex causality 407
30 Mapping the new methodological terrain 425
31 Getting philosophically real 455
32 Theme 6: the unfinished space 464
Appendix 1: list of respondents 486
Appendix 2: speculative references 488