{"product_id":"cybernetics-for-the-social-sciences-9789004464346","title":"Cybernetics for the Social Sciences","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBernard Scott has met a long-felt need by authoring a book that shows the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences (including psychology, sociology, and anthropology). Scott provides user-friendly descriptions of the core concepts of cybernetics, with examples of how they can be used in the social sciences. He explains how cybernetics functions as a transdiscipline that unifies other disciplines and a metadiscipline that provides insights about how other disciplines function. He provides an account of how cybernetics emerged as a distinct field, following interdisciplinary meetings in the 1940s, convened to explore feedback and circular causality in biological and social systems. He also recounts how encountering cybernetics transformed his thinking and his understanding of life in general.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCybernetics for the Social Sciences   Bernard Scott    Abstract  Keywords  Prolegomena   Part 1 About This Publication and a First Look at Cybernetics   Part 2 A Life in Cybernetics   Part 3 The Story of Cybernetics   Part 4 Some Key Concepts of Cybernetics   Part 5 On Messages   Part 6 Cybernetics and the Integration of the Disciplines   Part 7 In Defence of Pure Cybernetics   Part 8 Socioybernetic Understandings of Consciousness   Part 9 Reflections on the Sociocybernetics of Social Networks   Part 10 Some Sociocybernetic Understanding of Possible World Futures   Part 11 Sociocybernetic Understandings of Culture   Part 12 Summing up and What Comes Next   Acknowledgements   References","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210823459159,"sku":"9789004464346","price":71.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cybernetics-for-the-social-sciences-9789004464346","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}