Een systeemtheoretisch paradigma van een sociaal interaktienetwerk. Een verkenning op het gebied van de kwalitatieve systeemdynamika
Auteurs
Sitter,L. U. de
Trefwoorden:
input value vs various cycles completion smoothness
Samenvatting
Recent developments in information theory, cybernetics & general systems theory have inspired theoreticians in behavioral science to translate the general concepts into a language of social-behavioral relevance & to move to a process-oriented kind of social theory. However, the best examples of such endeavors, although well developed in the axiomatic sense, have not yet been formalized. The social scientist in the field however, will only be able to put the newer theories to the test if all the basic concepts & their significance in the context of a social process are well defined. The aim here is to present a paradigm--a set of related concepts--& to also take, on the issue of the concept of "utility" or "value," the form of a theoretical model. According to this model the value of an input is a function of the degree in which various interaction cycles to which the input components refer, sustain or impede each others' completion. 7 Figures, 1 Diagram. AA.
