Sociocybernetics : complexity, autopoiesis, and observation of social systems
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Sociocybernetics : complexity, autopoiesis, and observation of social systems
（Contributions in sociology, no. 132）
Greenwood Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
In an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this rapidly developing field. The authors address the core problems in social science caused by increasing societal complexity and analyze the inadequacy of many of the methodological tools still used for grappling with nonlinear, self-organizing systems. Together, the 18 contributors propose elements of a new methodology based on sociocybernetic principles aimed at describing and explaining the growth of societal complexity, the contribution of autopoiesis of societal subunits to more societal complexity, and the new simulation-based methodology needed to observe complex social systems. This unique volume contributes to a greater understanding of sociocybernetics and its uses as a method for researching modern problems of increasing complexity and interdependence.
The first part of the book deals with increasing societal complexity and contains chapters on its overall development, the complexity of brain-environment interaction loops, organizational change, the development of human values, and the increasing interpenetration of societal subsystems. The second part concentrates on a current issue in sociocybernetics: autopoiesis, or self-production. The chapters included in Part II concentrate on embodied cognition, on the applicability of autopoiesis to business firms, on its roots in Aristotelian philosophy, and on the possibility of societal control and steering in democratic societies. Part III, more focused on methodology, discusses the difficulties inherent in observing complex social systems. The chapters deal with the problems of cross-cultural comparative research, simulation of the evolution of social systems, longitudinal simulation of education systems, and the methodological difficulties associated with analyzing the unexpected complexities of mutually interacting nonlinear systems.
目次
Preface
Introduction to the Main Themes in Sociocybernetics Felix Geyer and Johannes van der Zouwen
Growing Social and Complexity
Sociophysics and Sociocybernetics:An Essay on the Natural Roots and Limits of Political Control Paris Arnopoulos
Mind and Brain: A Dynamic System Model Walter Buckley
Management by Complexity:Redundancy and Variety in Organizations Heinrich Ahlemeyer
The Emergence of Societal Information Robert Artigiani
On the Interpretation of Social Subsystems: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Parsons and Luhman Michael Rempel
Autopoiesis
Information, Meaning and Communication: An Autopoietic Approach John Mingers
Are Firms Autopoietic Systems? Lucio Biggiero
The Autopoiesis of Social Systems: An Aristotelian Interpretation Colin Dougall
Autopoiesis and Governmance: Societal Steering and Control in Democratic Societies John H. Little
Observation of Social Systems
Implications of Autopoiesis and Cognitive Mapping for a Methodology of Comparative Cross-Cultural Research Bernd Hornung and Charo Hornung
Social Differentiation as the Unfolding of Dimensions of Social Systems Jürgen Klüver and Jörn Schmidt
The Dynamics of Educational Expansion: A Simulation Model Cor van Dijkum, Niek Lam, and Harry B.G. Ganzeboom
Towards a Methodology for the Empirical Testing of Complex Social Cybernetic Models Johannes van der Zouwen and Cor van Dijkum
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