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Preface=vii
Introduction to the Main Themes in Sociocybernetics/Felix Geyer;Johannes van der Zouwen=1
PART I: GROWING SOCIETAL COMPLEXITY=17
1. Sociophysics and Sociocybernetics: An Essay on the Natural Roots and Limits of Political Control/Paris Arnopoulos=17
2. Mind and Brain: A Dynamic System Model/Walter Buckley=41
3. Management by Complexity: Redundancy and Variety in Organizations/Heinrich W. Ahlemeyer=59
4. The Emergence of Societal Information/Robert Artigiani=73
5. On the Interpenetration of Social Subsystems: A Contemporary Reconstruction of Parsons and Luhmann/Michael Rempel=89
PART II: AUTOPOIESIS=109
6. Information, Meaning, and Communication: An Autopoietic Approach/John Mingers=109
7. Are Firms Autopoietic Systems?/Lucio Biggiero=125
8. The Autopoiesis of Social Systems: An Aristotelian Interpretation/Colin Dougall=141
9. Autopoiesis and Governance: Societal Steering and Control in Democratic Societies/John H. Little=159
PART III: OBSERVATION OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS=173
10. Implications of Autopoiesis and Cognitive Mapping for a Methodology of Comparative Cross-Cultural Research/Bernd R. Hornung;Charo Hornung=173
11. Social Differentiation as the Unfolding of Dimensions of Social Systems/Judiaeresisrgen Kludiaeresisver;Jodiaeresisrn Schmidt=191
12. The Dynamics of Educational Expansion: A Simulation Model/Cor van Dijkum;Niek Lam;Harry B.G. Ganzeboom=205
13. Towards a Methodology for the Empirical Testing of Complex Social Cybernetic Models/Johannes van der Zouwen;Cor van Dijkum=223
Index=241
About the Contributors=249