Sociocybernetic paradoxes : observation, control and evolution of self-steering systems
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Sociocybernetic paradoxes : observation, control and evolution of self-steering systems
Sage, 1986
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
In this stimulating work, thirteen distinguished scholars examine and aim to reconcile the paradox that social systems tend to steer themselves with the knowledge that they are, at the same time, subject to steering and control from outside. 'Sociocybernetics' is the term they have coined to describe the tools used in the analysis of this paradox; tools which have themselves evolved from and influenced cybernetics and general systems theory.
Sociocybernetic Paradoxes surveys both the possibilities and limitations of cybernetics in the analysis and treatment of social problems: Part One looks at concrete experiences of the steering of specific social systems; Part Two examines the planning, hierarchy and views of society and also the role of social science within it; and Part Three presents the wider context of governing and planning social systems.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Felix Geyer and Johannes van der Zouwen
PART ONE: EXPERIENCES WITH THE STEERING OF PARTICULAR SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Actors, Models, and Limits to Societal Self-Steering - Thomas Baumgartner
The Family - Lauren Langman
A 'Sociocybernetic' Approach to Theory and Policy
Mental Health Service Delivery Systems in the United States - Ronald W Manderscheid
The Control of Interaction Processes in Survey Interviews - Johannes van der Zouwen, Wil Dijkstra and Joop van de Bovenkamp
Improvement of (self-)Steering Through Support Systems - Jan H G Klabbers
PART TWO: PLANNING, HIERARCHY AND COMPETENCE
The Planning Paradox - Michael Masuch
Notes on the Concept of Self-Steering - Arvid Aulin
Preprocessing - James R Beniger and Clifford I Nass
Neglected Component of Sociocybernetics
Social Change and the Design of Inquiry - Gerard De Zeeuw
PART THREE: THE WIDER CONTEXT: EVOLUTION, AUTOPOIESIS AND DIALOGUE
Systems and Societies - Ervin Laszlo
The Basic Cybernetics of Social Evolution
The Autopoiesis of Social Systems - Niklas Luhmann
The Third Position -- Beyond Artificial and Autopoietic Reduction - Stein Braten
Epilogue - Johannes van der Zouwen and Felix Geyer
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