This book presents an innovative framework for conceptualising families as complex systems and for understanding and supporting positive change, adaptation and resilience. The development of this framework was based on a qualitative and abductive research process targeting change and resilience processes in multi-challenged families.

The theoretical novelty of this book is mostly expressed in the notion of Love-Force: a relational force emerging from the coupling processes between individuals with potential transformative effects on them, their interactions and environments. This book introduces a new vocabulary for understanding the complexity of families as complex systems and their change and resilience processes. Love-Force is presented as a supreme expression of the complexity of families and human bonds. It elaborates on the complexity of the family bonds, on the relation of Love-Force to change and resilience and its contributions to the conceptualisation of the Potential for Family Change.

Raising important theoretical and methodological challenges and questions, it presents a guide for future interdisciplinary research in the domains of complexity and family sciences and advances in practice. As such, it will be of interest to anyone interested in the complexity of human relations and to complexity scientists as much as family theorists, researchers and practitioners.

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Provides an unifying approach to the study of statistical laws
Starts from simple examples and goes through more advanced time-series and statistical methods
Presents the necessary material to analyze, test, and interpret results in existing and new datasets

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* Offers an integrating framework for natural philosophy
* Connects biological and physical evolution through novel theory, elaborating an extended evolutionary synthesis
* Analyses science from a philosophical perspective and looks at philosophy from a scientific perspective

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Embark on a riveting journey through the study of social complexity with The Atlas of Social Complexity. Over three decades of scientific exploration unfold, unravelling the enigmatic threads that compose the fabric of society. From the dance of bacteria, to human-machine interactions, to the ever-shifting dynamics of power in social networks, this Atlas maps the evolution of our understanding of social complexity.

Brian Castellani’s and Lasse Gerrits’ Atlas is not merely retrospective. It is a compass pointing to uncharted territories: new directions for research and intellectual debate. With wit and insight, they invite the reader to ponder unanswered questions, taking them on a quest for alternative ways to understand the intricate complexities of societies.

The Atlas of Social Complexity is a thrilling expedition into the heart of what makes us human: from cognition, emotion, consciousness, the dynamics of human psychology, to social networks, collective behaviour, politics and governance, technology and planning, and the practice of social interventions. The Atlas also visits cross-cutting themes such as intersectionality, configurational complexity, and research methods.

Organised around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity. It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social complexity.

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There are many books and articles that outline the findings made by existing complexity science. But there are almost none that identify how you can develop the thinking that was used to produce those findings. None show how individuals can develop the higher cognition that will be necessary if they are to contribute to the emergence of a genuine science of complexity.

In contrast, this book sets out specifically to provide methods and practices for developing higher cognition.

The book argues that the ability to construct and utilize mental models of complex phenomena is essential if humanity is to overcome the existential challenges that currently threaten the survival of human civilization on Earth. Furthermore, it argues that this metasystemic cognition is essential for the development of a genuine science of complexity – the book makes the case that the analytical/rational cognition that underpins current mainstream science is largely limited to generating only mechanistic reductions of complex phenomena.

The book recognises that most potential readers are likely to be highly skeptical about its claims to enable the scaffolding of metasystemic cognition. The website for the book attempts to dispel this skepticism by making the first chapter of the book freely available. This chapter is designed to evoke the realization that the methods detailed by the book are plausible, and that currently almost no one uses the methods systematically, despite their enormous potential.

The website for the book is HumanSuperIntelligenceBook.com