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EXPLANATION, PREDICTION AND PROBLEM‐SOLVING IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS: A SOCIAL CYBERNETIC ANALYSIS OF ETHNIC TENSIONS IN NATIONAL SOCIETIES (Part 1)

P.N. RASTOGI (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016 (India))

Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Article publication date: 1 March 1983

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Abstract

This paper describes the interrelated nature of explanation, prediction and problem‐solving in social systems. Cybernetic analysis of social phenomena provides a unifying framework in this context. The analytic framework is briefly considered with reference to the problem of ethnic tensions in national societies. The first part of the paper discusses the conceptual apparatus of analysis and develops an integrated multi‐feedback loop model of the complex social phenomenon of ethnic tensions.

Citation

RASTOGI, P.N. (1983), "EXPLANATION, PREDICTION AND PROBLEM‐SOLVING IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS: A SOCIAL CYBERNETIC ANALYSIS OF ETHNIC TENSIONS IN NATIONAL SOCIETIES (Part 1)", Kybernetes, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 197-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005656

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