Groundwork for social dynamics
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Groundwork for social dynamics
(Avebury series in the philosophy of science, . Philosophy of the social sciences ; 3)
Avebury, c1993
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume considers the problem of social pathology in modern society, in terms of a breakdown of social structure. The author gives a careful explanation of the notion of social structure. Examples are drawn from Marx, Lorenz, and post-war Great Britain, and Professor Wisdom develops the idea that a common underlying factor where social structures go badly wrong lies in the breakdown of caste. When firm structures become loosened, social pathology must be faced. To handle this, society has to utilize an internal social control system. The author outlines and explains one such system, which he describes as an automatic cybernetic control mechanism. This application of the idea of cybernetics to society should contribute to the idea of social stability.
Table of Contents
- The notion of social structure
- Marx's concept of social structure
- Lorenz's functional theory of macro-aggression
- situational individualism and group-properties
- the social pathology of Great Britain
- social crisis in a nation - caste and outcaste
- the death of caste
- the fatherless society and the American mom
- the notion of social pathology
- the hypothesis of cybernetics
- societies viewed as types of dynamic containment
- unde quo veni?.
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