Abstract

ISAZA RAMOS, Marisol. On the Category of Complex Human Societies. Trab. soc. [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.1, pp.241-253. ISSN 2256-5493.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ts.v21n1.71424.

The organization of human societies resembles that of living systems, insofar as they are open, dynamic, complex, and unfinished totalities subject to leaps, changes in phase, evolution-involution cycles, deterioration, and collapse. The objective of this article is to understand the concept of complex human society and argue that these societies behave like living and intelligent systems. Thus, it provides a reflection on these types of societies as bio-social wholes, on the basis of an innovative and creative social science, approach related to epistemological perspectives deriving from theories of complexity.

Keywords : complexity; human society; intelligent system; living system; social organization; social system.

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