Authors:

  • Peter Marsden

Excerpt

Social Order from the Bottom Up? Peter Marsden, 2015, Book Chapter (Chapter 16 of the book 'Order on the Edge of Chaos: Social Psychology and the Problem of Social Order'). "Order and stability are tenuous and fragile. People have to work to create and sustain a semblance of stability and order in their lives and in their organizations and larger communities. Order on the Edge of Chaos compares different ideas about how we coordinate and cooperate. The ideas come from 'micro-sociology', and they offer new answers to the classic question of Thomas Hobbes: 'how is social order possible?' The most common answers... " Link