The Social Sciences and Rationality by Hudson Meadwell

Author:Hudson Meadwell [Meadwell, Hudson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780765802323
Google: dE_LnQEACAAJ
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2004-01-15T03:30:27+00:00

Systemism

The ubiquity of the concept of a system is such that it suggests adopting an entire systemic worldview. This is centered in the following postulates:

(i) Everything, whether concrete or abstract, is a system or an actual or potential component of a system;

(ii) systems have systemic (emergent) features that their components lack, whence

(iii) all problems should be approached in a systemic rather than in a sectoral fashion;

(iv) all ideas should be put together into systems (theories); and

(v) the testing of anything, whether idea or artifact, assumes the validity of other items, which are taken as benchmarks, at least for the time being.

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