PlexusCalls: Thinking About Social Science

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May 21 2010

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Thinking About Social Science
Guests: Larry Liebovitch and Jeffrey Goldstein

How do we think about psychological and social issues, and what's the best way to examine and describe them? These experienced scholars will consider the social science paradigm of words and correlational statistics, and the physical science paradigm of equations and predictions, and the implications of the different approaches. Larry Liebovitch,PhD, is graduate programs director of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science of Florida Atlantic University, and Professor at FAU's Center for Complex Systems and Brain Science, Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and the Department of Psychology. He is a physicist and astronomer who has applied nonlinear methods to analyze molecular, cellular, physiological and psychological systems. He has written more than 75 articles and book chapters and is the author of Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences. Jeffrey Goldstein, PhD, is a professor at the Adelphi University School of Business and an associate clinical professor at Adelphi's Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies. He is a pioneer in the application of complexity theory to organizations and leadership, and wrote The Unshackled Organization, a widely acclaimed book on the subject. He is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and is co-editor of the journal Emergence: Complexity an Organization.
 

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