Cybernetics for the Social Sciences (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Sociocybernetics and Complexity)

Scott, Bernard

Brill（2021/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 130 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004464346
• DDC分類 300.3

Full Description

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.

Contents

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

 Bernard Scott

Abstract

Keywords

Prolegomena

 Part 1 About This Publication and a First Look at Cybernetics
 Part 2 A Life in Cybernetics

 Part 3 The Story of Cybernetics

 Part 4 Some Key Concepts of Cybernetics

 Part 5 On Messages

 Part 6 Cybernetics and the Integration of the Disciplines

 Part 7 In Defence of Pure Cybernetics

 Part 8 Socioybernetic Understandings of Consciousness

 Part 9 Reflections on the Sociocybernetics of Social Networks

 Part 10 Some Sociocybernetic Understanding of Possible World Futures

 Part 11 Sociocybernetic Understandings of Culture

 Part 12 Summing up and What Comes Next

 Acknowledgements

 References