Why Society Is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-First Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science - Paperbackby Philip Ball (Author) Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have