The decreasing capacity to govern complex social processes results in
negative trends that breach system thresholds in all main social domains
with extreme economic stratification of society. Independent studies
steadily report that a strong majority of the world's population,
between 60% and 80%, already feels excluded and no longer represented by
their governments.
The two prevailing concepts of complexity seem to overlook the central
importance of mesoscopic complexity. Socially complex conditions call
for a new kind of social thought specifically developed for a blinded
generation that must be as different from modern and postmodern
thoughts, as they were different from their middle-age precedents.
'Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World', addresses the
concerns of the excluded majority by explaining how present complex
social conditions work in favor of generational aspirations to achieve a
more positive future. In the geometry of thinking, a complex matter is
not comprehensible objectively, but only by evaluating overlaps between
complexity domains on their periphery, which is in the area of their
inconsistencies. The book first develops an evaluative methodology for
studying complex social matters and then tests it with three case
studies that reflect some of the most pressing problems in contemporary
societies: aggregation problem, integration problem, and organization
problem. The obtained findings give grounds for the depiction of an
outline for the 'anti-postmodern' ordering of contemporary societies.
This ground-breaking text will be of particular interest for graduate
and post-graduate level of social sciences, evaluators of project,
program and policy impact evaluation, evaluators of philosophy of
science, as well as methodologists of social research and public
governance.
