Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict soci

Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict soci

Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.

mile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whos

This book argues that societies are complex dynamical systems that can be understood through the concept of emergence.