General Systems Theory - Beginning with Wholes Beginning with Wholes

Name: General Systems Theory - Beginning with Wholes Beginning with Wholes
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ISBN: 9781560323457

ISBN-10: 1560323450

ISBN-13: 9781560323457

Edition: 1995

Authors: Barbara G. Hanson

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Though general systems theory is currently the prevailing paradigm in family therapy and social work, there is no accessible text which treats its basic concepts. This book fills the gap by presenting the central ideas of general systems theory in clear and simple language, with a focus on the social sciences. The most important traditional ideas of systems theory are considered along with new ideas running into the 21st Century.; It Begins With Aristotle's Notion That The Whole Is Greater than the sum of its parts. These emergent wholes become the focus of attention in order to study things which are joint productions, like the arms race and intimate relations. Thinking in systems terms…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 6/1/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Context


Nonsummativity


System


Unit



Causality


Cybernetics


Action and Inaction


Co-Emergence


Agency and the Impossibility of Blame



Change


Feedback


Positive and Negative Feedback


Equifinality and Multifinality



Content


Content and Context: Why One and Not Another?


Meaning


Parallogic


Realities



Communication


Report and Command


You Cannot Not Communicate


Double Bind



Emotion


Suprarationality


Definitional Deficit and Definitional Equality


Context and Content - Light Through a Prism



Moving Ahead


Science


Tools


Conclusion


Annotated References


Annotated Bibliography


Index