Cybernetics for the Social Sciences by Scott, Bernard

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004464346)

Vendor: Bernard Scott
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$94.00
$94.00
$94.00
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Cybernetics for the Social Sciences by Scott, Bernard

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

$94.00
Cybernetics for the Social Sciences by Scott, Bernard

Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

$94.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Bernard Scott
ISBN-10: 9004464344
ISBN-13: 9789004464346
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2021
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.29d
By Bernard Scott
By Bernard Scott
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Bernard Scott, Ph.D. (1976), Brunel University, retired from Cranfield University as Reader in Cybernetics in 2010. He now works as an independent scholar. He has many publications to his credit, including Explorations in Second Order Cybernetics (echoraum, 2011).

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