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Complexity Forum: Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Leicester)
TITLE: The Complexity of Data: Computer Simulation and “Everyday” Social Science
SPEAKER: Edmund Chattoe-Brown (Leicester)
ABSTRACT:
Although the existence of various forms of complexity in social systems is now widely recognised, this approach to explanation faces two major challenges which turn out to be intimately connected. The first is the existing conflict in social science between “micro” and “macro” styles of social explanation. The second is the relationship of complexity to the kind of data routinely collected in social science. In order to be accepted, complexity approaches need simultaneously to dodge the first conflict while making much better use of existing forms of data.
The first part of the talk will provide an introduction to the simulation approach and a discussion of various concepts in complexity with reference to simulation as a distinctive theory building tool and methodology. The second part of the talk will develop these ideas in more depth using simulations by the author as case studies.