Citation
(2003), "Social Fuzziology – Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity", Kybernetes, Vol. 32 No. 7/8. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2003.06732gae.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Social Fuzziology – Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity
Social Fuzziology – Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity
Vladimir Dimitrov and Bob HodgePhysica-Verlag A Springer-Verlag Company,Heidelberg, New York2002i – xxiv+ 188 pp.ISBN: 3-7908-1506-3Price: Euro 54.95 (Net), £38.5, sFr 94.50, $72.00 (Hardcover)
This is a contribution to the series "Studies in fuzziness and soft computing" Editor-in-Chief: Professor Janusz Kacprzyk), Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw). Details of the other volumes in this series can be found at: http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_book.pl?series=2941.
Whenever Fuzzy Logic is applied in cybernetics and systems, many potential readers are disconcerted by what appears to be a complex mathematical process. This book does not frighten non-mathematicians or those who dislike using symbols and the corresponding notation. The subject of the text is Social Complexity and the book applies the principles and insights of Fuzzy Logic to its study. The publishers say that:
It draws on the full range of the social sciences, including some of the most up-to-date work on the escalating complexities of post modern life, e.g. new information technologies in a global world, new forms of consciousness and identity, new relationships between humans, machines, nature and environment. The volume is interdisciplinary, combining expertise from Fuzzy Logic and the Postmodern Social Sciences, synthesising and applying concepts and methods of Fuzzy Logic in innovative ways to the world of social life.
The authors aim to give its readers a comprehensive and practical guide to this application of Fuzzy Logic and they do so by including consideration of many social problems. The contents list gives some indication of the way in which they have approached their task:
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Introduction to Social Fuzziology
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Bridging the Study of Complexity with Social Fuzziology
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Understanding Fuzziness of Ourselves
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Understanding Fuzziness of Society
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Case Studies: Understanding Fuzzy Social Categories
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Fuzziness of the West and the East
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Key Terms in the Language of Fuzziology
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