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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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CULTURE 4)

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The set of values and norms proper to a social system.

These values and norms act as collective order parameters. They include beliefs (religious, aesthetic, ethical, philosophical), basic concepts, law systems, political ideologies, technical practice, dominant economic attitudes, etc…

The basic values and the resulting adaptive norms correspond to the autopoietic character of a given sociosystem, which must however adapt to internal and environmental change. It strongly polarizes nearly all the individuals in the system, through reciprocal behavioral constraints and, in turn, generates the behavior and attitudes needed to maintain its global coherence, efficiency and in some extreme cases secures its very survival.

When the values and norms are starting to crumble, the sociosystem generally finds itself in the middle of a terminal crisis and/or facing a critical transition toward other forms and ways.

Culture seems to have ethological roots in social mammals and birds, and even possibly biochemical ones as in insect societies, and amoeba.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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