THE APPLICATION OF AUTOPOIESIS IN SYSTEMS ANALYSIS: ARE AUTOPOIETIC SYSTEMS ALSO SOCIAL SYSTEMS?

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
MILAN ZELENÝ ◽  
KEVIN D. HUFFORD
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Autopoietic Systems

Men in organizations: An approach to social systems analysis

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter L. Wilkins ◽  
Blair W. McDonald ◽  
Allen Jones ◽  
Lee Murdy ◽  
Lawrence R. James ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Social Systems

Self-observation, self-reference and operational coupling in social systems: steps towards a coherent epistemology of mass media

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Juan Miguel Aguado
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Media System ◽  
Autopoietic Systems ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Meaning Production ◽  
Significant Divergence ◽  
The Mass Media

This paper is concerned with the role of self-observation in managing complexity in meaning systems. Revising Niklas Luhmann's theory of mass media, we approach the mass media system as a social sub-system functionally specialized in the coupling of psychic systems' (individuals) self-observation and social systems' self-observation (including, respectively, themselves as each other's internalized environment).According to Autopoietic Systems Theory and von Foerster's second order cybernetics, self-observation presupposes a capability for meta-observation (to observe the observation) that demands a specific distinction between observer and actor. This distinction seems especially relevant in those social contexts where a separation between the action of observation and other social actions is required (in politics, for instance). However, in those social contexts (such as mass-media meaning production) where the defining action is precisely observation (in terms of the differentiation that constitutes the system), the border between observer and actor is blurred.We shall consider the significant divergence between the implicit and the explicit epistemologies of the mass media system, which appears to be characterized by the explicit assumption of a classic objectivist epistemology, on one side, and a relativist epistemology on the other, posing a hybrid epistemic status somewhere in between science and arts.

Post—Functional Social Systems Analysis

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Social Systems

Regulation of Agroecosystems: A Social Systems Analysis of Agroecology and Law

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. B. Noe ◽  
H. F. Alrøe
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Social Systems

CAUSALITY AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT DUBIN
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Social Systems

Social systems analysis and the study of international conflict

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (54) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Boulding
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Social Systems

Social Systems Analysis and Industrial Humanism: Awareness Without Revelations.

1968 ◽  
Vol 1968 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23
Author(s):  
Robert A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Social Systems

Bedürfnisorientierungen und soziale Konflikte / Need-Orientations and Social Conflict

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Otto Hondrich
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Socialization Theory ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe terms of „need“ and „interest“ occupy a prominent place in contemporary social criticism and planning. As representatives of „person“ against „society“ their position is problematic since they are chronically influenced by changing social systems. Empirical research concerning the dynamics of differentiating need-orientations ought to go on within a theoretical concept of the relationship between personal needs and social structures. Structural functionalism, historical materialism, socialization theory, behavioral sociology, relative deprivation and symbolic interactionism are examined in this respect: A paradigm of systems analysis is proposed which interpretes exchange between material, social and personal systems by the medium of need-orientations. Need-orientations are seen as conflicts. Consequently, evolution of material and social systems is going on within personal systems by means of intrapersonal and social strategies of conflict resolution. Diagrams of the research project are intended to show how conflicts (need-orientations) and conflict solving strategies may be located empirically as differentiated variables and how those variables may be interconnected to form a body of hypotheses.

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