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The Perspectives

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This book builds on three different conceptual perspectives: the system-theoretic, the exchange-theoretic, and the regulatory. In this chapter, we discuss the most important features of each such perspective. Also, we discuss two complementary concepts that are instrumental to the theoretical development of the book, namely the concepts of intentionality and of co-induction.

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    See [32] for Giddens’ comments on the organicist roots of sociological functionalism.

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    We often denote a function of the form fun(t) by fun t.

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da Rocha Costa, A.C. (2019). The Perspectives. In: A Variational Basis for the Regulation and Structuration Mechanisms of Agent Societies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16335-8_2

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