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Sociocybernetics

An actor-oriented social systems approach Vol.1

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. R. Felix Geyer

    1. Joint Social Research Centre, Netherlands Universities, Amsterdam, Netherland

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  2. Johannes Zouwen

    1. Free University, Amsterdam, Netherland

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • R. Felix Geyer, Johannes van der Zouwen
    Pages 1-14

  3. A conversation theoretic approach to social systems

    • Gordon Pask
    Pages 15-26

  4. Actors, games, and systems: the dialectics of social action and system structuring

    • Tom Baumgartner, Tom R. Burns, Philippe DeVillé
    Pages 27-54

  5. An actor-oriented systems model for the analysis of industrial democracy measures

    • Tom Baumgartner
    Pages 55-77

  6. A theory of social change

    • Maria Nowakowska
    Pages 79-103

  7. Are societies Turing machines? Some implications of the cyclical majority problem, an NP complete problem, for cybernetic models of social systems

    • Don M. M. Booker
    Pages 105-127

  8. Dialectics and catastrophe

    • Martin Zwick
    Pages 129-154
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Joint Social Research Centre, Netherlands Universities, Amsterdam, Netherland

    R. Felix Geyer

  • Free University, Amsterdam, Netherland

    Johannes Zouwen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociocybernetics

  • Book Subtitle: An actor-oriented social systems approach Vol.1

  • Editors: R. Felix Geyer, Johannes Zouwen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4095-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: R. F. Geyer and J. van der Zouwen 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-207-0854-7Published: 30 November 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-4095-9Published: 14 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 168

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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