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Sociopolitical Ecology

Human Systems and Ecological Fields

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Frederick L. Bates

    1. The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Systems Thinking (CST)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Design of a Cognitive System for Generating Structural Models of Social Behavior Systems and Ecological Fields

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 1-21

  3. Behavior as a Phenomenon

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 23-47

  4. Structure and Structural Analysis

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 49-67

  5. Systems and Systems Theory

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 69-90

  6. Self-Referential Behavior Systems

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 91-115

  7. Self-Referential Social Systems

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 117-132

  8. Ecological Fields

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 133-165

  9. Social Systems in the Context of Ecological Fields

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 167-180

  10. A Language for Constructing Structural Models of Social Networks within and among Self-Referential Systems

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 181-206

  11. Individual Actors and Social Systems

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 207-226

  12. An Overview of Sociopolitical Ecology

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 227-240

  13. Epilogue

    • Frederick L. Bates
    Pages 241-253

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 255-272
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About this book

Sociopolitical Ecology introduces the concept of `ecological field' to replace that of `ecosystem' and extends the boundaries of self-referential systems to a new, more complex level of analysis. Ecological field refers to an overarching system that contains many self-referential (or autopoietic) systems that interact in a common space, with human beings placed squarely in the middle of all natural ecological networks. The focus of this fascinating study is the interlocking pattern of relations among human beings within an ecological field - what the author designates as `sociopolitical ecology'. The book argues that most societies are not self-contained systems, but rather ecological fields, that is complexes of several interacting systems.

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`Bates has produced a book that is very nearly astonishing, and that is bound to be important.'
Contemporary Psychology, 43(9), 1998

Authors and Affiliations

  • The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

    Frederick L. Bates

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociopolitical Ecology

  • Book Subtitle: Human Systems and Ecological Fields

  • Authors: Frederick L. Bates

  • Series Title: Contemporary Systems Thinking

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0251-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45653-4Published: 30 September 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0253-5Published: 01 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0251-1Published: 21 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2846

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 272

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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