Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

Bernard Scott

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Pages:: 1–128

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004464490_002

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This publication meets a long-felt need to show the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences (including psychology, sociology, and anthropology). User-friendly descriptions of the core concepts of cybernetics are provided, with examples of how they can be used in the social sciences. It is explained how cybernetics functions as a transdiscipline that unifies other disciplines and a metadiscipline that provides insights about how other disciplines function. An account of how cybernetics emerged as a distinct field is provided, following interdisciplinary meetings in the 1940s, convened to explore feedback and circular causality in biological and social systems. How encountering cybernetics transformed the author’s thinking and his understanding of life in general, is also recounted.

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Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences and Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004464490

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 15 Apr 2021

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