CYBERNETIC STUDY OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS (Part 1): Theory and Methodology

Abstract

This study is divided into two parts: The first part outlines the theory and methodology of investigation developed by the author; the second part describes the results obtained for the progress of Indian society from 1970 to 1980 and then deals with the issues for an intelligent management of societal systems. This paper i.e., the first part, delineates a universal model of the macro‐level dynamics of total society systems. The methodology describes two procedures for estimating the viability of a societal system; both yield the same results. One of the procedures is a simulation algorithm that makes possible the predictive inference and retrodictive confirmation of the course of system behaviour. The other procedure computes societal viability (Z) by integrating the viability measures (λ) of the ‘essential’ performance variables of the system.

Citation

RASTOGI, P.N. (1977), "CYBERNETIC STUDY OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS (Part 1): Theory and Methodology", Kybernetes, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 95-105. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005443