Why utilize complexity principles in social inquiry?

World Futures 63 (3 & 4):156 – 175 (2007)
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Complexity is introduced as a fitting paradigmatic orientation to social inquiry. A complexity approach is compared and contrasted with other holistic social inquiry orientations and constructivist styles of thinking that have informed and guided the evolution of qualitative social inquiry

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