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This book may be viewed as a complex book about the topic of complexity. It is both critical of the present state of art in the social sciences and constructive in its view about the possibility of building a new science for the future. A science that takes the complexity of reality as real. A science that is based on a new framework: a framework that does not yet exist. The new framework, therefore, will be a framework that has to be invented.
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See Margaret Archer [2000], p. 306.
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He lived from 1896–1934.
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The ‘most simple’ cases are very complex, – one cannot be surprised enough about that!
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Jörg, T. (2011). Introduction. In: New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1303-1_2
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