Sentences with phrase «general systems theory sees»

General systems theory sees autonomy in biology but also recognizes discontinuity in prebiotic patterns of organization.

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2 For an excellent survey of the history and basic concepts of systems thought, see Joël de Rosnay, The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) or Bertalanffy, «General System Theory — A Critical Review,» in Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row,systems thought, see Joël de Rosnay, The Macroscope: A New World Scientific System (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) or Bertalanffy, «General System Theory — A Critical Review,» in Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row,Systems Behaviour, edited by John Beishon and Geoff Peters (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).

The movement received an important boost starting in the early 1950s through the work of anthropologist Gregory Bateson and colleagues — Jay Haley, Donald D. Jackson, John Weakland, William Fry, and later, Virginia Satir, Ivan Boszormenyi - Nagy, Paul Watzlawick and others — at Palo Alto in the United States, who introduced ideas from cybernetics and general systems theory into social psychology and psychotherapy, focusing in particular on the role of communication (see Bateson Project).