General Systems Theory
Beginning with Wholes
Seiten
1995
Taylor & Francis Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56032-346-4 (ISBN)
Taylor & Francis Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56032-346-4 (ISBN)
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General systems theory is currently the prevailing paradigm in family therapy and social work, and this book presents the central ideas of the theory in clear and simple language, with a focus on the social sciences. Traditions of the theory are considered alongside new ideas.
Though general systems theory is currently the prevailing paradigm in family therapy and social work, there is no accessible text which treats its basic concepts. This book fills the gap by presenting the central ideas of general systems theory in clear and simple language, with a focus on the social sciences. The most important traditional ideas of systems theory are considered along with new ideas running into the 21st Century.;It begins with Aristotle's notion that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. These emergent wholes become the focus of attention in order to study things which are joint productions, like the arms race and intimate relations. Thinking in systems terms means seeing that change in one part changes all parts, like the thaw of the Cold War leading ultimately to the Gulf War. It allows a fresh analytic stance without the necessity of blame that made things worse, such as the retributive policy toward Germany after World War 1, or DDT. New language like feedback gives a way to view social phenomena in terms of systems processes, which may magnify or distort the ultimate effects of actions on a system.;
Human systems suggest adding several characteristic
Though general systems theory is currently the prevailing paradigm in family therapy and social work, there is no accessible text which treats its basic concepts. This book fills the gap by presenting the central ideas of general systems theory in clear and simple language, with a focus on the social sciences. The most important traditional ideas of systems theory are considered along with new ideas running into the 21st Century.;It begins with Aristotle's notion that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. These emergent wholes become the focus of attention in order to study things which are joint productions, like the arms race and intimate relations. Thinking in systems terms means seeing that change in one part changes all parts, like the thaw of the Cold War leading ultimately to the Gulf War. It allows a fresh analytic stance without the necessity of blame that made things worse, such as the retributive policy toward Germany after World War 1, or DDT. New language like feedback gives a way to view social phenomena in terms of systems processes, which may magnify or distort the ultimate effects of actions on a system.;
Human systems suggest adding several characteristic
Introduction - patterns in theory, theory of patterns. Part 1 Concepts: context; non-summativity; system; unit; causality; cybernetics; action and inaction; co-emergence; agency - impossibility of blame; change; feedback - positive, negative. Part 2 Characteristics: content; content and context - why one and not the other; meaning; parallogic; realities; communication; report and command; you cannot not communicate; double bind; emotion; supra-rationality; definitional deficit and definitional equality; context and content - light through a prism; ahead; science; multiverse; emotion; subjectivity; tools; data; decoding; general construcuts.
| Zusatzinfo | bibliography |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Washington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 230 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-56032-346-9 / 1560323469 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-56032-346-4 / 9781560323464 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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