Chaos As Social Order

intersect–each other as determinants of what kinds of activities appear and continue or appear then disappear in such contexts.

            A case study or in-depth interview sample of such a location would constitute a phase portrait of the attractor.  Contained in any particular piece of information in such a portrait would be information about other aspects of the social situation.  We know, for example, that personal interviews about such preferences as political candidates or bond issues can also give us information about language use, gestures, and aspects of social life such as class relations and discrimination.  According to Hao, the “basic idea is: due to nonlinear interactions in the system these [information samples taken at different times] contain information on other variables as well and one should be able to extract this information” from such a series of samples (53).  Such co-presence, simultaneity, or interpenetration of data further illustrates that social power combines compression and persistence in social order.

            Homelessness is a powerful contemporary example and indicator of human living regimes which, with increasing regularity, distinguish between transients and non-transients.  The fact that smaller communities have less incidence of lasting homelessness in comparison with larger towns, cities, and metropolitan areas suggests that the trajectories of homeless people are attracted to basins of human living within which multiple basins–e.g. Ott and Sommerer–contain enough pieces of each other to allow–to tolerate in their range of differences–strongly divergent living arrangements.

            But containing pieces of each other then implies

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