The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780306465390
Subjects: Social theory; Sociological Theory; Social Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Anthropology - Cultural; Applied; Operations Research; Business & Economics : Operations Research; Mathematics : Applied; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / General; Sociology - General; Philosophy; Social systems; System Theory
First sentence: We talk about systems in numerous contexts: the solar system, the endocrine system, the system of complex numbers, computer systems, capitalist systems, bureaucratic systems, school systems, personality systems, and so on.