Normal Accidents
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies is a 1984 book by Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, which analyses complex systems from a sociological perspective. Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems, and that accidents are unavoidable and cannot be designed around.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Normal Accidents AuthorCharles Perrow PublisherBasic Books Publication date1984 ISBN978-0-691-00412-9 Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies is a 1984 book by Yale sociologist Charles Perrow, which analyses complex systems from a sociological perspective. Perrow argues that multiple and unexpected failures are built into society's complex and tightly coupled systems, and that accidents are unavoidable and cannot be designed around.[1][2] "Normal" accidents, or system accidents, are so-called by Perrow because such accidents are…
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