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"Sociocybernetics can be defined as 'Systems Science in Sociology and Other Social Sciences' - systems science, because sociocybernetics is not limited to theory but includes application, empirical research, methodology, axiology (i.e., ethics and value research), and epistemology."
(The Research Committee on sociocybernbetics, RC51)
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- The Challenge of Sociocybernetics
- This paper summarizes some of the important concepts and developments in cybernetics and general systems theory, especially during the last two decades. Its purpose is to show show how they indeed can be a challenge to sociological thinking.
Cybernetics is used here as an umbrella term for a great variety of related disciplines: general systems theory, information theory, system dynamics, dynamic systems theory, including catastrophe theory, chaos theory, etc. - Niklas Luhmann and the founding of the field of Sociocybernetics
- Niklas Luhmann,(December 8, 1927 - November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, administration expert, and social systems theorist was the founder of the sociological systems theory and one of the founders of Sociocybernetics, (merging cybernetics, self-organizing theory, and social change).
- Research Comittee on sociocybernetics, International Sociological Association
- his website of RC51, hosted by the University of Zaragoza, Spain, provides detailed information about up-coming and past activities. It makes available bibliographic information and includes abstracts and papers presented by members of RC51 since 1998 both in the World Congresses of Sociology (held every four years) and in the International Conferences of Sociocybernetics which, since 1999, have been held in the years between the World Congresses.
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