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Festschrift for Felix Geyer / guest editors Bernard Scott, Vessela Misheva and Cor van Dijkum.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Volume 35, Issue 3 & 4
- Kybernetes, the international journal of systems & cybernetics ; v.35, no. 3/4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cybernetics.
- Systems engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This e-book consists of research papers and personal reflections of Felix Geyer's work or to the areas in which he has been active (socio-cybernetics, alienation theory). Socio-cybernetics can be defined as "Systems Science in Sociology and Other Social Sciences" - systems science, because socio-cybernetics is not limited to theory but includes application, empirical research, methodology, axiology (i.e., ethics and value research), and epistemology.
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Preface; Editors' introduction; Contributors to the Festschrift; The cold war within a sociological systems perspective; Reflexivity revisited: the sociocybernetics of belief, meaning, truth and power; Thank you Felix Geyer; Happiness and the pursuit of happiness; Thinking about experience and action; The sociological concept of autopoiesis; Sociocybernetics and social entropy theory; The challenge of the past for the future of the social sciences; The necessity of trans-scientific frameworks for doing interdisciplinary research
- Sociocybernetics and testability: a bridge too far?A forgotten message? von Bertalanffy's puzzle; Corporate social responsibility from the viewpoint of systems thinking; Social knowledge for a world in transition; Complex systems studies and the concepts of security; Is Kevin Warwick a dandy?; The crisis of contemporary science; Studying alienation: toward a better society?; The biological metaphor of a second-order observer and the sociological discourse; The two faces of American power; The vicarious self; Cybernetics and systems on the web: Jerry Wiesner and MIT; Awards; Book reviews
- Book reportsAnnouncements; Special announcements
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-54745-6
- 9786610547456
- 1-84544-953-3
- OCLC:
- 71127663
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