Sociocybernetics: Complexity, Autopoiesis, and Observation of Social Systems

by R. Felix Geyer

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313314187
• ISBN13: 9780313314186
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"