LEADER 05298nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910970766203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781457110955 010 $a1457110954 010 $a9781607320708 010 $a1607320703 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055035 035 $a(EBL)710215 035 $a(OCoLC)784882811 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000487258 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12195986 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000487258 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10442198 035 $a(PQKB)10319168 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL710215 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL913733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039738 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC710215 035 $a(Perlego)2031337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055035 100 $a20030128d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe science of synthesis $eexploring the social implications of general systems theory /$fDebora Hammond 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBoulder $cUniversity Press of Colorado$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (718 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781607320692 311 08$a160732069X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; FIGURES; TABLES; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; NOTES; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE The Quest for Peace in a Nuclear World; NOTES; ONE The Behavioral Sciences in Postwar America; THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH; CRITIQUE AND RESPONSE; HISTORICAL ROOTS OF SYSTEMS THINKING; DEFINING THE GENERAL-SYSTEMS APPROACH; THE FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH; EVALUATING THE HERITAGE OF GENERAL-SYSTEMS THOUGHT; NOTES; PART I The Sources of Systems Thinking 327 $aTWO The Science of Life: Organization in Living Systems VITALISM AND MECHANISM; THE EMERGENCE OF ORGANICISM; THE CLAUDE BERNARD SCHOOL OF PHYSIOLOGY; NOTES; THREE Engineering, Management, and the Military-Industrial Complex; OPERATIONS RESEARCH, SYSTEMS ANALYSIS, AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; NOTES; FOUR Cybernetics and Information Theory: Feedback and Homeostasis; FEEDBACK: CONCEPTUAL ORIGINS; CYBERNETICS: FEEDBACK IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION THEORY; TWO STRANDS OF FEEDBACK THOUGHT; CYBERNETICS AND SOCIAL THEORY; NOTES 327 $aFIVE Ecology and Social Theory: Structure, Function, and Evolution THE EVOLUTION OF ECOLOGY; PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL THEORY; THE ORIGINS OF MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT; THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION; PARSONIAN FUNCTIONALISM; NOTES; PART II The Founders of General Systems Research; SIX Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972): General Systems Theory; VIENNA: GREETING A NEW CENTURY; ORGANISMIC BIOLOGY; OPEN SYSTEMS; GENERAL SYSTEM(S) THEORY; CYBERNETICS AND GST: MECHANISTIC VERSUS ORGANISMIC MODELS; MATHEMATICS AND ISOMORPHIC RELATIONSHIPS; TOWARD A NEW IMAGE OF HUMANITY: GST IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 327 $aBEYOND THE ROBOT IMAGE CULTURE: THE SYMBOLIC DIMENSION; CRITIQUES OF BERTALANFFY AND GST; CONCLUSION; NOTES; SEVEN The Chicago Behavioral Science Committee; RALPH GERARD (1900-1974); Neurophysiology and the Organismic Conception of Society; A Life of Ambition, Genius, and Passion; Neurophysiology and Information Theory; The Organismic Conception of Society; The Role of Science; ANATOL RAPOPORT (b. 1911); Mathematical Biology, Game Theory, and the Prisoner's Dilemma; From Russia to Chicago; Intellectual Passions; General Systems Theory; The Symbolic Dimension: Values and General Semantics 327 $aGame Theory and Conflict Resolution Enlightenment and Progress; JAMES GRIER MILLER (b. 1916); The Behavioral Sciences and Living Systems Theory; Life and Thought; Chicago; Michigan and Beyond; The Committee on the Behavioral Sciences; The Mental Health Research Institute; Living Systems Theory; CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS; NOTES; EIGHT Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993): Economics, Ecology, and Peace; FROM LIVERPOOL TO BOULDER: THE QUEST FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE; MICHIGAN: THE FORD FOUNDATION AND THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; THE CHALLENGE OF COMMUNISM; TOWARD AN INTEGRATED THEORY OF SOCIAL INTERACTION 327 $aCONFLICT RESOLUTION AND THE INTEGRATIVE CONCEPT 330 $aDebora Hammond''s The Science of Synthesis explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR''s five founding members-Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, James Grier Miller, and Anatol Rapoport-Hammond traces the emergence of systems ideas across a broad range of disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. Both metaphor and framework, the systems concept as articulated by its earliest proponents highlights relationship and 606 $aSystem theory$xHistory 615 0$aSystem theory$xHistory. 676 $a003 700 $aHammond$b Debora$f1951-$01709760 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910970766203321 996 $aThe science of synthesis$94359434 997 $aUNINA