Kybernetes: Volume 13 Issue 3
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
THE SOCIOCYBERNETIC PARADOX: A SHORT INTRODUCTION
JOHANNES VAN DER ZOUWEN, FELIX GEYERThe rapidly increasing complexity of modern society has given rise to a host of societal crises and problems. Efforts to solve such problems have, more often than not…
STEERING SOCIETIES?
MICHAEL MASUCHA survey of political philosophy from Antiquity to present times, and of more recent efforts to create a thoroughly planned society, leads to the conclusion that history does not…
CYBERNETICS IN AN EVOLVING SOCIAL SYSTEM
ERVIN LASZLOHuman societies can be conceptualized as natural systems satisfying four basic system criteria: Ordered wholeness; negative feedback deviation‐reducing capability; positive…
SOCIOCYBERNETICS AS THE SCIENCE OF SELF‐STEERING HUMAN ACTION
ARVID AULINThe nature of sociocybernetics as a foundational science of human action, and some of the basic results in this line of research, and their consequences as to the governability…
THE THIRD POSITION—BEYOND ARTIFICIAL AND AUTOPOIETIC REDUCTION
STEIN BRÅTENThe meaning of cybernetics of sociocultural systems is discussed in terms of two rival traditions. Both are reductionistic with respect to cognitive interaction: One seeks a…
CAN SOCIAL CHANGE BE SUPPORTED BY INQUIRY?
GERARD DE ZEEUWIt is proposed to see society as epiphenomenal to a process, the political process. Various actors contribute, with different aims, resources, constraints—and usually without…
PREPROCESSING AND SOCIETAL CONTROL: NEGLECTED COMPONENT OF SOCIOCYBERNETICS
JAMES R. BENIGER, CLIFFORD I. NASSRecent doubts about whether social systems can be controlled in a cybernetic sense depend upon a view of cybernetics that overemphasizes communication, information processing and…
LIMITS TO SOCIETAL SELF‐STEERING: LESSONS FROM AN ACTOR‐ORIENTED SYSTEMS APPROACH TO INFLATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SWITZERLAND
THOMAS BAUMGARTNERThe actor‐oriented systems approach, developed by the author and others, is applied to a comparative analysis of inflation and anti‐inflationary policies in Great Britain and…
FAMILY AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS: A CYBERNETIC APPROACH
LAUREN LANGMANA systems approach to the family as a self‐regulating, goal‐directed system is developed. It is viewed in terms of socio‐legal boundaries delimiting certain role relationships and…
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES
RONALD W. MANDERSCHEIDThe U.S. mental health service delivery system consists of a broad array of inpatient and ambulatory services operated under governmental, corporate, nonprofit, and…
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- Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici