The science of synthesis : exploring the social implications of general systems theory / / Debora Hammond

• Autore: Hammond Debora <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (718 p.)
• Disciplina: 003
• Soggetto topico: System theory - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover 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 ; TWO 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 ; FIVE 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 ; BEYOND 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 ; Game 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 ; CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND THE INTEGRATIVE CONCEPT
• Sommario/riassunto: Debora 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The science of synthesis
• ISBN: 9781457110955; 1457110954; 9781607320708; 1607320703
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910970766203321
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