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... Society for General System Theory was realized at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1954. The name was later changed into the less pretentious " Society for General Systems Research ...
... Society for General System Theory was realized at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1954. The name was later changed into the less pretentious " Society for General Systems Research ...
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... society and a corresponding technology , it would be the way out of the chaos and impending destruction of our present world . This seems to be plausible enough and is , in fact , but a modern version of Plato's precept that only if the ...
... society and a corresponding technology , it would be the way out of the chaos and impending destruction of our present world . This seems to be plausible enough and is , in fact , but a modern version of Plato's precept that only if the ...
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... Society , human , see Human society Socio - cultural systems , and social sciences , 7-9 , 194-197 , 200-202 Sociological technology , 51-52 Sociology , organismic theory of , 202-203 Sorokin , P. A. , 7 , 10 , 195 , 196 , 198 , 200 ...
... Society , human , see Human society Socio - cultural systems , and social sciences , 7-9 , 194-197 , 200-202 Sociological technology , 51-52 Sociology , organismic theory of , 202-203 Sorokin , P. A. , 7 , 10 , 195 , 196 , 198 , 200 ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Meaning of General System Theory | 30 |
Information and Entropy | 41 |
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