Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity

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Bernard Scott has met a long-felt need by authoring a book that shows the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences (including psychology, sociology, and anthropology). Scott provides user-friendly descriptions of the core concepts of cybernetics, with examples of how they can be used in the social sciences. He explains how cybernetics functions as a transdiscipline that unifies other disciplines and a metadiscipline that provides insights about how other disciplines function. He provides an account of how cybernetics emerged as a distinct field, following interdisciplinary meetings in the 1940s, convened to explore feedback and circular causality in biological and social systems. He also recounts how encountering cybernetics transformed his thinking and his understanding of life in general.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-30
Mått:155 x 235 x 7 mm
Vikt:239 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity
Antal sidor:130
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004464346

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Bernard Scott, Ph.D. (1976), Brunel University, retired from Cranfield University as Reader in Cybernetics in 2010. He now works as an independent scholar. He has many publications to his credit, including Explorations in Second Order Cybernetics (echoraum, 2011).

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Cybernetics for the Social SciencesBernard ScottAbstractKeywordsProlegomenaPart 1 About This Publication and a First Look at Cybernetics Part 2 A Life in CyberneticsPart 3 The Story of CyberneticsPart 4 Some Key Concepts of CyberneticsPart 5 On MessagesPart 6 Cybernetics and the Integration of the DisciplinesPart 7 In Defence of Pure CyberneticsPart 8 Socioybernetic Understandings of ConsciousnessPart 9 Reflections on the Sociocybernetics of Social NetworksPart 10 Some Sociocybernetic Understanding of Possible World FuturesPart 11 Sociocybernetic Understandings of CulturePart 12 Summing up and What Comes NextAcknowledgementsReferences