Date:         Fri, 13 Sep 96 08:41:46 EDT
From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Organization: Central Michigan University
Subject:      All Homage to Non-linear Psychologists
To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY <SOCGRAD@CSF.COLORADO.EDU>
Message-Id:   <960913.085917.EDT.34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
If I have been parochial about anything re: non-linear dynamics, it
is in not mentioning the very, very active group in ChaosPsych;
the network is huge and already they have a section in the APA.

I've attended several of their conferences in Calif, NY, and Canada
with profit....my point is that sociology has yet to develop the
research design and analytic tools nor do grad students in sociology
get course work/readings in non-linear dynamics...

So...I want the grad students on Socgrad to pick up on this exciting
new field; think about what it means for crime, war, poverty, divorce,
deviancy theory, religious movements and other non-linear trans-
formations in social processes and social structures...

For those who would like, there are a dozen or so articles available
in which I've tried to do some of the basic conceptual work in the
explication, application and implications of Chaos/Complexity theory
for sociology...

There are two ways to access these articles:

1.  Gopher
    gopher csf .colorado.edu
    Select: progressive sociology
    Select: Authors
    Select: Young.TR
    Select: any article you might like on social change, symbolic
            interactional theory, crime, phil/sci or whatever.

2.  Web Browsers:

    http://csf.colorado.edu/psn
    select: Authors
    select: Young.TR
    select: whatever intrigues.

And...to help you, I shall give a mini-lecture/tutorial on the
basic terms and ideas of non-linear dynamics sometime this semester.

                                   Yours for the optimum mix of
                                   order/disorder; change/renewal;
                                   stability/variation; planning/
                                   surprise; contentment/challenge.

                                                           TR