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The papers brought together in these volumes represent a selection from the more than fifty contributions presented in the symposium and the section on social systems of the Fourth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems (Amsterdam, August 1978). They cover a wide variety of apparently unrelated topics, and seem to be bound together mainly by their use of the common conceptual framework of sociocybernetics, or social systems theory: indeed, they were all selected for their quality and originality rather than for their mutual fit or for their illustration or observance of a common theme.
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Bråten, Stein, ‘Systems research and social sciences,’ in: G. J. Klir (ed.), Applied general systems research: recent developments and trends, New York, Plenum Press, 1978, 655–685.
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Geyer, R.F., van der Zouwen, J. (1978). Introduction. In: Geyer, R.F., van der Zouwen, J. (eds) Sociocybernetics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4095-9_1
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