TY - BOOK AU - Sawyer,R.Keith ED - Cambridge University Press. TI - Social emergence: societies as complex systems SN - 0521606373 AV - HM626 .S39 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Social evolution KW - Social systems KW - Sociology KW - Communication KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index; -- Emergence, complexity, and social science; -- The third wave of social systems theory; -- The history of emergence; -- Emergence in psychology; -- Emergence in sociology; -- Durkheim's theory of social emergence; -- Emergence and elisionism; -- Simulating social emergence with artificial societies; -- Communication and improvisation; -- The emergence paradigm ER -