A theory of social systems: family and ecology as examples

Abstract

Uses the theory of knowledge‐based interactions to explain the idea of systems as extensive organismic interrelationships. Shows such extensive interactions to be possible only in the fold of a unitary epistemology, which in turn, describes the evolving histories of human experience in a grand unification process. Claims that apart from this unique foundation, no knowledge‐based world view is possible, and hence social systems are truly interactive relations, which can be either knowledge‐based or de‐knowledge‐based. Uses the examples of family and ecological order as two kinds of social systems that can be explained in the fold of the extensive knowledge‐based interactions. Theorizes relevant simulation systems to explain the implications of the underlying interrelations of social systems.

Citation

Alam Choudhury, M. (1996), "A theory of social systems: family and ecology as examples", Kybernetes, Vol. 25 No. 5, pp. 21-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929610124096