Sentences with phrase «from general systems theory»

They also intuitively understand the core ideas from general systems theory — that you can get good models of system - level processes even when many of the sub-systems are poorly understood, as long as you're smart about choices of which approximations to use.

Not exact matches

The theory of societies, like modern general systems theory, pictures a world made up of societies within societies (systems within systems) That is, societies do not just line up side by side like mosaics — they form «nested hierarchies» that go from subatomic particles through cells to animal bodies, or through stars to galaxies.

What we have done here is (a) accept that mathematics arises from experience, (b) recognize that we can get a general idea of twoness from our experience, (c) accept constraints on our experience — what we can assert as existing and what we can construct — by accepting some formal system, in this case a system defining set theory, and (d) acknowledge that we can define precisely within that system what we mean by number, successor of a number and in the process twoness.

The recent work of German sociologist Jurgen Habermas, in which questions about the formal characteristics of social systems in general and the dynamics of the lifeworld are the focus, exhibits a clear preference for deductive theory of a prescriptive sort.13 Habermas has drawn eclectically from modernization theory and Marxism to create what he calls a reconstructive model of cultural evolution.

Within the past decade, there have been several attempts to categorize ethical systems arising from process metaphysics in their relation to ethical theory in general.

This theory from social science provides general approaches, not framed mathematically, to account for several distinct aspects of human behavior including attitudes towards impacts of behaviors, perception of social norms, and perceptions about the capability for behaviors to be effective and to have impact on controlling a system.

As the inspector general of Oregon's prison system from 1990 - 1995, I was given the responsibility for investigating allegations of wrongdoing in the department, including some of the conspiracy theories that arose after the Francke murder.

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).