FROM CRISIS OF CIVILIZATIONS TO THE CIVILIZATION OF CRISIS: LONG-TERM PATTERNS IN/OF CIVILIZATIONAL LIFE-CYCLES
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Organismic approaches to civilizations disseminate the common sense perspective that "civilizations born, live, and die", but generally do not provide a systemic and analytical explanation for this process other than referring to biological analogies. In order to have a more comprehensive understanding on the life-cycles of the civilizations, they should be conceptualized as dissipative structures which are created and sustained through continuous re-generation of their peculiar orders reflecting their sets of social values by utilizing both the material and non-material environmental flows.
In this study life-cycles of civilizations will be studied as broad societal orders dependent on environmental flows by using an analytical model based on complexity theory and the generalization and normalization crisis in contemporary global order will tried to be explained according to this model. In explaining life-cycles of civilizations, insights from non-linear thermodynamics will be used and threshold behaviors in complex systems as well as importance of human agency will also be taken into consideration.
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Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
14 Temmuz 2018
Gönderilme Tarihi
1 Aralık 2017
Kabul Tarihi
18 Ocak 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2015 Cilt: 2 Sayı: 3