Cybernetics for the Social Sciences
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Published: April 30, 2021
Scott
Cybernetics for the Social Sciences
A book. Soft cover
2021
VI, 130 pp.
In English
Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004464346
Format (W x L): 15.5 x 23.5 cm
Weight: 239 g
The work is part of the series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity
Product descriptionBernard 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.
Systems Community of Inquiry 