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Social systems are systems that contain at least two interacting individuals. The nature of this interaction can be rather varied. According to this definition, two chess players and their board can form a social system; the interaction takes place here via the primary system of the chess board. A number of people talking about the weather interact via a communication system. Each participant has a certain internal representation or image of the weather in his or her environment; this internal mapping serves as a basis for an information exchange between the participants.
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Hanken, A.F.G., Reuver, H.A. (1981). Models of Social Systems. In: Social Systems and Learning Systems. Frontiers in Systems Research, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8132-4_5
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