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In the attempt to analyze the social construction of new knowledge within research groups, the theory of self-organization has proved to be a worthwhile approach. Originally used in natural sciences for the description of order arising out of disorder, it is nowadays also applied in human and social sciences for the analysis of complex issues.2
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Küppers, G. (1998). The self-organization of social systems: A simulation of the social construction of knowledge. In: Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N. (eds) Computer Simulations in Science and Technology Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58270-7_10
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