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<div class="csl-entry">Hofkirchner, W. (2019). Social relations: Building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy. <i>Systems Research and Behavioral Science</i>, <i>36</i>(3), 263–273. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2594</div>
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1092-7026
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/20291
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy did not leave us a legacy of a social systems theory. Nonetheless, reconstructing his general approach to systems provides us with several ideas on how to build a theory of social systems. The concept of social relations easily connects to Bertalanffy's concept of relations of organization. His way of thinking underlines that social relations, as any relations of organization, are unobservables that long for theoretical means of understanding. His conception of the world would assign social relations a special place in a hierarchy of processes internal to a social system—they represent the whole of the system that nonetheless emerges from the interaction of the actors as parts thereof. Last but not least, his world view would orient us towards an organization of social systems in which the dialectic of social relations and actors balances unity and diversity as an Ought. These three main ideas of Bertalanffy offer system theoretical pillars that can inspire current social theory.
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WILEY
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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antagonisms
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commons
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social theory
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structure and agency
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unity through diversity
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Social relations: Building on Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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Article
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Artikel
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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Creative Commons Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International