| Description |
xxi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary systems thinking |
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Contemporary systems thinking.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Critical Systems Thinking and Critical Social Theory -- 3. Forms of Social Order and Their Sustaining Worldviews -- 4. Individualism and Social Order -- 5. Unitarism and Social Order -- 6. Pluralism and Social Order -- 7. Power and Interests: From Domination to the Power of Knowing You Are Not Powerless -- 8. Ideology: From Mystification to the Power of Knowing That You Can Critically Reflect upon Yourself -- 9. Control and Social Order -- 10. Control and Human Interests: Methodological Foundations of Systems Methodologies -- 11. Control, Constancy, and Change: The Architecture of Power and Ideology -- 12. Control and Strategic Ideologies -- 13. Critical Social Theory: From Epistemology to Communicative Paradigm -- 14. Enlightenment, Empowerment, and Transformation of Societal Systems: What Is to Be Done? The Case of Developing Countries -- 15. Conclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-311) and indexes |
| Subject |
Critical theory.
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Ideology.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social control.
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Liberty.
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Happiness.
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Social change.
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| LC no. |
95046988 |
| ISBN |
0306451603 |
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