UID:
almahu_9949701677202882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004464490
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9789004464346
Series Statement:
Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
Content:
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.
Note:
Front Matter --
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Preliminary Material /
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Copyright page /
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Cybernetics for the Social Sciences /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cybernetics for the Social Sciences, Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004464346
Language:
English
