Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles

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Autor(a) principal: Graça, João Carlos
Data de Publicação: 2008
Outros Autores: Lopes, João Carlos
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/2480
Resumo: Complexity is a purposeful integrating framework for interdisciplinary dialogue, namely between sociologists and economists. After presenting some properties of complex (social) systems, we consider the crucial role of the economic complexity research agenda in challenging the mainstream economic paradigm. This endeavor, we suggest, can greatly benefit from a neglected but relevant aspect, the concern regarding social complexity implicit in the sociological tradition, particularly the emphasis given by Durkheim to the idea of interdependence, a keystone of complexity studies nowadays. As we underline, instead of assuming interdependence/complexity and autonomy/simplicity in a tradeoff relationship, the French sociologist takes interdependence and autonomy as fundamentally complementary and positively correlated characteristics of modern societies. This fact suggests the convenience to conceptualize complexity as a broad socioeconomic, and not just a strict economic, phenomenon. Such a purpose is certainly more damaged than benefited by the existence of the economics/sociology academic divide.
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title Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles
spellingShingle Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles
Graça, João Carlos
Socioeconomic Complexity
Interdependence
Autonomy
Sociological Tradition
Durkheim
title_short Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles
title_full Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles
title_fullStr Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles
title_full_unstemmed Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles
title_sort Socioeconomic complexity and the sociological tradition : new wine in old bottles
author Graça, João Carlos
author_facet Graça, João Carlos
Lopes, João Carlos
author_role author
author2 Lopes, João Carlos
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Graça, João Carlos
Lopes, João Carlos
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Socioeconomic Complexity
Interdependence
Autonomy
Sociological Tradition
Durkheim
topic Socioeconomic Complexity
Interdependence
Autonomy
Sociological Tradition
Durkheim
description Complexity is a purposeful integrating framework for interdisciplinary dialogue, namely between sociologists and economists. After presenting some properties of complex (social) systems, we consider the crucial role of the economic complexity research agenda in challenging the mainstream economic paradigm. This endeavor, we suggest, can greatly benefit from a neglected but relevant aspect, the concern regarding social complexity implicit in the sociological tradition, particularly the emphasis given by Durkheim to the idea of interdependence, a keystone of complexity studies nowadays. As we underline, instead of assuming interdependence/complexity and autonomy/simplicity in a tradeoff relationship, the French sociologist takes interdependence and autonomy as fundamentally complementary and positively correlated characteristics of modern societies. This fact suggests the convenience to conceptualize complexity as a broad socioeconomic, and not just a strict economic, phenomenon. Such a purpose is certainly more damaged than benefited by the existence of the economics/sociology academic divide.
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