 Mapping the new methodological terrain. Chapter 30 in The Atlas of Social Complexity, 2024, pp 416-445 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter explores three programmes of methodological research we see as most useful for fostering a transdisciplinary approach to social complexity: case-based complexity, systems mapping, and approachable modelling and smart methods, or AM-Smart for short. These methods are valuable because they have a strong interdisciplinary, configurational or systems thinking lineage, and half of them are qualitative. They are also grounded in social science. Here is how we recommend approaching the chapter: push yourself outside your methodological comfort zone; read through the methods, particularly ones with which you are not familiar, and begin thinking about how you might use them; or how you might advance a method or suite of methods in some unique way, all in an effort to find yourself in new methodological terrain. We particularly encourage readers to engage the qualitative methods because of their tremendous analytic power in the study of social complexity. Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:19387_30 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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