Research Catalog

Title

Sociopolitical ecology : human systems and ecological fields / Frederick L. Bates.

Author

Bates, Frederick L.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

xxi, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• Contemporary systems thinking
• The language of science

Uniform Title

• Language of science.
• Contemporary systems thinking.

Subject

• Social structure
• Social systems
• System theory
• Social ecology
• Human ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-257) and index.

Contents

1. The Design of a Cognitive System for Generating Structural Models of Social Behavior Systems and Ecological Fields -- 2. Behavior as a Phenomenon -- 3. Structure and Structural Analysis: As a Cognitive Strategy -- 4. Systems and Systems Theory -- 5. Self-Referential Behavior Systems -- 6. Self-Referential Social Systems -- 7. Ecological Fields -- 8. Social Systems in the Context of Ecological Fields -- 9. A Language for Constructing Structural Models of Social Networks within and among Self-Referential Systems -- 10. Individual Actors and Social Systems -- 11. An Overview of Sociopolitical Ecology -- 12. Epilogue.

ISBN

0306456532

LCCN

97029385

OCLC

• 37492255
• ocm37492255

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Columbia University Libraries