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1 online resource (347 pages) |
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Volume 35, Issue 3 & 4 |
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Volume 35, Issue 3 & 4
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| Contents |
Cover; CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Preface; Editors' introduction; Contributors to the Festschrift; The cold war within a sociological systems perspective; Reflexivity revisited: the sociocybernetics of belief, meaning, truth and power; Thank you Felix Geyer; Happiness and the pursuit of happiness; Thinking about experience and action; The sociological concept of autopoiesis; Sociocybernetics and social entropy theory; The challenge of the past for the future of the social sciences; The necessity of trans-scientific frameworks for doing interdisciplinary research |
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Sociocybernetics and testability: a bridge too far?A forgotten message? von Bertalanffy's puzzle; Corporate social responsibility from the viewpoint of systems thinking; Social knowledge for a world in transition; Complex systems studies and the concepts of security; Is Kevin Warwick a dandy?; The crisis of contemporary science; Studying alienation: toward a better society?; The biological metaphor of a second-order observer and the sociological discourse; The two faces of American power; The vicarious self; Cybernetics and systems on the web: Jerry Wiesner and MIT; Awards; Book reviews |
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Book reportsAnnouncements; Special announcements |
| Summary |
This e-book consists of research papers and personal reflections of Felix Geyer's work or to the areas in which he has been active (socio-cybernetics, alienation theory). Socio-cybernetics can be defined as "Systems Science in Sociology and Other Social Sciences"--Systems science, because socio-cybernetics is not limited to theory but includes application, empirical research, methodology, axiology (i.e., ethics and value research), and epistemology |
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Print version record |
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Cybernetics.
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Systems engineering.
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cybernetics.
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systems engineering.
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Cybernetics
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Systems engineering
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Misheva, Vissela
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Dijkum, Cor van
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| ISBN |
9781845449537 |
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1845449533 |
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