Sociocybernetics: Complexity, Autopoiesis, and Observation of Social Systems
Published: 2001-01-30 | ISBN: 0313314187 | PDF | 264 pages | 27.06 MB
In one effort to shed light on novel developments in sociocybernetic research, this whirl represents recent and advanced thinking in this fast developing field. The authors address the essence problems in social science caused through increasing societal complexity and analyze the inadequateness of many of the methodological tools lull used for grappling with nonlinear, self-organizing systems. Together, the 18 contributors propose elements of a renovated methodology based on sociocybernetic principles aimed at describing and explaining the bourgeoning of societal complexity, the contribution of autopoiesis of societal subunits to in greater numbers societal complexity, and the new personation-based methodology needed to observe entangled social systems. This unique volume contributes to a greater accord of sociocybernetics and its uses being of the kind which a method for researching modern problems of increasing intricacy and interdependence.
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