SYSTEM (Organismic) 2)5)
← Back
"An open system which either is an organism or can be treated as an organism, where the chief characteristics of an organism are relatively fixed ordering of components, reproduction of the same type or species, and the existence of a life cycle" (O.R. YOUNG, 1964, p.70).
According to YOUNG, the concept, basic in von BERTALANFFY's work, is usable in biology, economics, sociology and political sciences.
Organismic systems are necessarily autopoietic, i.e. endowed with organizational closure.
Categories
- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
Publisher
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
To cite this page, please use the following information:
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
We thank the following partners for making the open access of this volume possible: