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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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ASSOCIATION 2)

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"The relation which is commutative and connected" (J. FEIBLEMAN & J.W. FRIEND, 1969, p.33)

Grains of sand which accumulate in a dune are related in an associative way, since this way is commutative (The order in which they accumulate is irrelevant), and connective (since no element needs of any intermediary one to be in contact)

Association is thus a simple, non-structural and non- functional relation, at least in the meaning proposed by FEIBLEMAN and FRIEND It is here the most primitive and rudimentary form of coordination among elements.

It reflects however a trend, generally induced by common conditions imposed to the elements by the environment, as for example dominant winds on sand dunes.

The generally accepted sense in social psychology and sociology goes quite farther than this and includes the results of closeness, i.e. defined interactions in groups and social systems.

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