Social Disorder as a Social Good

Jon Marshall

doi:10.5130/ccs.v2i1.1337

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Published: Mar 30, 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v2i1.1337

Keywords:

social disorder, social theory, politics, administration

Jon Marshall

University of Technology Sydney

Abstract

In complex systems, disorder and order are interrelated, so that disorder can be an inevitable consequence of ordering. Often this disorder can be disruptive, but sometimes it can be beneficial. Different social groups will argue over what they consider to be disordered, so that naming of something as ‘disorder’ is often a political action. However, although people may not agree on what disorder is, almost everyone agrees that it is bad. This primarily theoretical sketch explores the inevitability of disorder arising from ordering systems and argues that a representative democracy has to tolerate disorder so as to function.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2010)

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Jon Marshall, University of Technology Sydney

QE II Research Fellow FASS UTS

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Jon Marshall, University of Technology Sydney