Malaina Martín, Álvaro MiguelBastardas, AlbertBel-Enguix, GemmaMassip, Angèls2025-01-202025-01-202019Malaina, A. (2019). The Paradigm of Complexity in Sociology: Epistemological and Methodological Implications. In: Massip-Bonet, À., Bel-Enguix, G., Bastardas-Boada, A. (eds) Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2_3978-3-030-04596-810.1007/978-3-030-04598-2_3https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115115This article seeks to present a unified frame of what we might call a “paradigm of complexity ” from the definition of Thomas S. Kuhn, i.e., as a paradigm that incorporates both a worldview and models of scientific realizations. This dual nature of the paradigm of complexity is expressed by Edgar Morin with the distinction drawn between a more epistemological “general complexity ” (complex thinking, second order cybernetics , autopoiesis , dissipative structures , etc.) and a more methodological “restricted complexity ” (complex adaptive systems , multi-agents systems , cellular automata , etc.). We pose the respective limitations of both approaches and the need for their integration into a common paradigm of complexity that incorporates inseparably philosophy and science. In the second part of our article we study the implications of the paradigm of complexity in sociology . We propose, as examples, a number of approaches to the social , both epistemological and methodological, from the perspective of the “general complexity ” and from the perspective of the “restricted complexity ”.spabook parthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2_3metadata only access316Ciencias Sociales63 Sociología