Systems theory and human science

Review of Systems: New Paradigms, 2001

This essay is a selective review of Systems: New Paradigms for the Human Sciences, edited by Gabriel Altmann and Walter A. Koch (Berlin: Walter de Gryter, 1998). It is selective because it is impossible to engage such a varied collection of systems-theoretic essays in a review ...

Актуальні питання у сучасній науці

Taking into account that all systems tend to function in the same way, the authors emphasize the significance of a deep understanding of the concept of a system for any scientific research. A holistic view of the concept of a system, its development, and its application gives deep understanding of how to organize the process of scientific research effectively. Therefore, this retrospective view provides insight into the past contributions of system thinkers, researchers, and educators to the evolutionary development and application of the concept of systems in different fields of knowledge. The article aims to review the concept of system, analyze the definitions of "system" in dictionaries and scientific research, compare the ontological, epistemological, and methodological interpretation of the term "system" from general to special, trace the genesis of the system; evaluate different concepts. In the research, data collection and analysis were used to trace the development of the concept of a system. Concept review, as a study type, was used to evaluate different meanings of the concept of a system to figure out which one is the most appropriate in the system of higher education. The analysis was structured around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the concept of a system.

Constructivist Foundations Vol. 15, No. 1, 78-81, 2019

> Abstract • Despite some questionable decisions regarding its organization , this anthology is an interesting read and a valuable general education resource concerning the intellectual history, and subsequent evolution, of systems theory. The book details early conceptual landmarks while emphasizing latter-day developments and applications, in particular in the context of cultural studies and the socio-economical sciences. While commenting on the book's form and content I also raise questions concerning systems theory's standing in relation to such themes as consciousness, constructivism, and the machine metaphor.

2007

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2023

Abstract. The Specific Systems Theory (STS) proposes a system definition that describes them precisely based on six postulates that establish the sufficient and necessary elements for some real entity to be a system. This contradicts and rejects the traditional definition of Bertalanffy (1968), which mentions that a system is a conglomerate of interacting components. Based on the definition of system that is the main foundation of STS, the various types of social systems, which have been scarcely studied, are analyzed in this study. The literature that exists in this regard is abundant in arguments about their behavior, but all the arguments generated have been developed based on various concepts that have no relation to their systemic properties. In this work, social systems are analyzed from the perspective of their systemic characteristics, their systemic nature and their systemic properties. The definition of system that supports STS makes it possible to clearly and easily understand how social systems work and explain their behavior as systems and not simply as societies, which is the inadequate approach that has been used to discuss them until now

In this chapter my intent is two-fold. First is to draw attention to some key human characteristics that do not appear to be commonly discussed in the systems based, environment and/or sustainability literature, but which are critical with respect to planning. Extending systems concepts into social systems without incorporating these human complexities is inadequate, although doing so makes explanation and understanding more complicated. Second is to illustrate that human social systems can be understood as poietic systems, influenced by selforganizing factors in a manner similar to that discussed above regarding physical, chemical and biological systems. Note that I am not simply suggesting self-organization provides a useful metaphor for social systems. I am suggesting that the self-organizing factors described in the preceding chapter are constitutive factors governing the generation, composition, and behaviour of human social systems.

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Papers of BAS Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No 1-2, 2015

he article analyzes the new challenges faced by the social sciences in an attempt to defend their right to provide adequate knowledge of their object of study, and what is more important, to formulate more accurate predictions about its behaviour and change. The increasingly explicit penetration of information technology in the deep structures of modern civilization creates a fundamentally new situation in the research of society as well. Separation of the different scientific fields becomes counterproductive and the current methodological arsenal shows more visible deficits. A new paradigm is being formed in which apparently will be implemented research of society in the future ­ the paradigm of systems thinking. It enables and requires adequate knowledge of complex objects like all objects of social sciences, to be organized so that their functioning as system dynamic integrity to come to the fore. Systems thinking is a common conceptual framework, a set of attitudes, knowledge, methods and tools, united by the idea that when a particular social area has to be explored, it is necessary to take account of the whole and to understand the processes by which the parts of reality are linked together.

World Futures, 1989

Journal of Education and Practice, 2019

This paper purposes the definition, characteristics, steps, advantages of systems approach and connection of system approach with education. The systems approach was much prevalent in technological, commercial and administrative working systems. The first ever application and development of this concept was done in the field of mechanics and military science, and later, it influenced much physiology and ideologies in sociological and educational sciences. The etymological meaning of the term 'system' is the combination of such things which are controlled and operated by a continually running interaction or mutually dependent processes. A system is an extensive process which includes many concepts in a systematic manner. Any system has the following four basic elements or parameters: Input, Process, Output, and Environment. The systems approach is a team works in which specialists of different subjects (as science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, economics, politics, so...