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.
'Bates has produced a book that is very nearly astonishing, and that is bound to be important.' Contemporary Psychology, 43(9), 1998
Innehållsförteckning
1. The Design of a Cognitive System for Generating Structural Models of Social Behavior Systems and Ecological Fields.- 2. Behavior as a Phenomenon.- 3. Structure and Structural Analysis: As a Cognitive Strategy.- 4. Systems and Systems Theory.- 5. Self-Referential Behavior Systems.- 6. Self-Referential Social Systems.- 7. Ecological Fields.- 8. Social Systems in the Context of Ecological Fields.- 9. A Language for Constructing Structural Models of Social Networks within and among Self-Referential Systems.- 10. Individual Actors and Social Systems.- 11. An Overview of Sociopolitical Ecology.- 12. Epilogue.- References.
