Identity: Articulating cybernetics and sociology

Kybernetes

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 124-147

  Stokes, Paul A ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Department of Sociology ^*  (Ireland)

^c UCD   (Ireland)

^d Cybernetics Society of Great Britain   (United Kingdom)

^e Metaphorum on Cybernetics of Governance   (Ireland)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Sociology

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BRIDGING CONCEPTS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE BASE; RESEARCH PROGRAMMES; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; SOCIOLOGY; STANDING PROBLEMS; VARIETY MANAGEMENTS;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 33645232897     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920610640272     Document Type: Article

References (110)

1. Ahrne, G. (1990), Agency and Organization: Towards an Organizational Theory of Society, Sage, London.
2. Ahrne, G. (1994), Social Organizations: Interaction Inside, Outside and between Organizations, Sage, London.
3. Argyris, C. and Schön, D.A. (1995), Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
4. Ashby, W.R. (1964), An Introduction to Cybernetics, Methuen, London.
5. Aulin, A. (1982), The Cybernetic Laws of Social Progress, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
6. Aulin, A. (1986), "Notes on the concept of self-steering", in Geyer, F. and van der Zouwen, J. (Eds), Sociocybernetic Paradoxes: Observation, Control and Evolution of Self-steering Systems, Sage, London, pp. 100-18.
7. Baecker, D. (2001), "Why systems?", Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 18, pp. 59-74.
8. Barnard, C. (1938), The Functions of the Executive, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
9. Bateson, G. (1973), Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Paladin, London.
10. Bateson, G. (1980), Naven, Wildwood House, London.
11. Bauman, Z. (1992), "Survival as a social construct", Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 9, pp. 1-36.
12. Beck, U., Giddens, A. and Lash, S. (1994), Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order, Polity Press, Cambridge, MA.
13. Beer, S. (1966), Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics, Wiley, London.
14. Beer, S. (1967), Management Science: The Business Use of Operations Research, Aldus, London.
15. Beer, S. (1970a), "Managing modern complexity", Futures, June, pp. 114-22.
16. Beer, S. (1970b), "Managing modern complexity", Futures, September, pp. 245-57.
17. Beer, S. (1972), Brain of the Firm, Allen Lane, London.
18. Beer, S. (1975), Platform for Change, Wiley, London.
19. Beer, S. (1979), Heart of Enterprise, Wiley, London.
20. Beer, S. (1983), "The will of the people", Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 34 No. 8, pp. 787-810.
21. Beer, S. (1989), "National government: disseminated regulation in real time, or 'how to run a country'", in Espejo, R. and Harnden, R. (Eds), The Viable System Model: Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer's VSM, Wiley, Chichester, pp. 333-60.
22. Beer, S. (1994), Brain of the Firm, 2nd ed., Wiley, Chichester.
23. Beniger, J.R. (1986), The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
24. Beniger, J.R. (1990), "Conceptualizing information technology as organization and vice versa", in Fulk, J. and Steinfield, C. (Eds), Organization and Communication Technology, Sage, Newbury Park, CA, pp. 29-45.
25. Bennis, W. and Slater, P.E. (1964), "Democracy is inevitable", Harvard Business Review, April.
26. Böhme, G., van den Daele, W. and Krohn, W. (1976), "Finalization in science", Social Science Information, Vol. 15 Nos 2/3, pp. 307-30.
27. Burke, P.J. (1991), "Identity processes and social stress", American Sociological Review, Vol. 56 No. 6, pp. 836-49.
28. Coleman, J. (1991), "Prologue: constructed social organization", in Coleman, J. and Bourdieu, P. (Eds), Social Theory for a Changing Society, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, pp. 1-14.
29. Collins, R. (1975), Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science, Academic Press, New York, NY.
30. Corning, P.A. (1971), "The biological bases of behavior and some implications for political science", World Politics, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 321-70.
31. Corning, P.A. (1983), The Synergism Hypothesis: A Theory of Progressive Evolution, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
32. Corning, P.A. (1996), "Synergy, cybernetics and the evolution of politics", International Political Science Review, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 91-119.
33. Curtin, D. (1997), Postnational Democracy: The EU in Search of a Political Philosophy, Kluwer, Dordrecht.
34. Czarniawska, B. (1997), Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
35. Daft, R.L. and Weick, K.E. (1984), "Toward a model of organizations as interpretation systems", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 284-95.
36. Dalal, F. (1998), Taking the Group Seriously: Towards a Post-Foulkesian Group Analytic Theory, Jessica Kingsley, London.
37. Della Salla, V. (2001), "Constitutionalising governance: democratic dead end or dead on democracy?", Constitutionalism web-papers, ConWEB No. 6/2001, available at: http://les1.man.ac.uk/conweb/.
38. Dennett, D.C. (1996), Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness, Phoenix, London.
39. deSenarclens, P. (1998), "Governance and the crisis in the international mechanisms of regulation", International Social Science Journal, Vol. 50 No. 1, pp. 91-5.
40. Drucker, P.F. (1993), Post-Capitalist Society, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford.
41. Edelman, G. (1992), Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind, Penguin Books, London.
42. Elias, N. (1956), "Problems of involvement and detachment", British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 11, pp. 226-52.
43. Elias, N. (1978), What is Sociology?, Hutchinson, London.
44. Elias, N. (1991), The Society of Individuals, Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
45. Elias, N. (2000), The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations, Basil Blackwell, Oxford (revised edition).
46. Espejo, R. and Harnden, R. (1989), The Viable System Model: Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer's VSM, Wiley, London.
47. Fox, E.M. and Urwick, L.F. (Eds) (1982), Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, Hippocrene Books, New York, NY.
48. Fukuyama, F. (1999), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order, Profile Books, London.
49. Gabor, D. (1964), Inventing the Future, Penguin Books in association with Secker & Warburg, Harmondsworth.
50. Geyer, F. and van der Zouwen, J. (1996), "Cybernetics and social science - theories and research in Sociocybernetics", Kybernetes, Vol. 25 No. 4, pp. 59-68.
51. Glasser, W. (1976), The Identity Society, Harper & Row Perennial Library, New York, NY, (revised edition).
52. Gouldner, A.W. (1971), The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, Heinemann, London.
53. Harnden, R. (1989), "Outside and Then", in Espejo, R. and Harnden, R. (Eds), The Viable System Model: Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer's VSM, Wiley, London, pp. 283-404.
54. Héritier, A. (2001), New Modes of Governance in Europe: Policy-Making without Legislating?, Renner Institut, Vienna, VA.
55. Hirst, P.Q. (1975), Bernard, Durkheim and Epistemology, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.
56. Jessop, B. (1995), "The regulation approach, governance and post-fordism: alternative perspectives on economic and political change?", Economy and Society, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 307-33.
57. Kooiman, J. (2000), "Societal governance", in Pierre, J. (Ed.), Debating Governance, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 136-66.
58. Kooiman, J. (2001), "Governance: a social-political perspective", unpublished paper, available at: www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/pg/.
59. Kramer, R.M. (1993), "Cooperation and organizational identification", in Murnigham, J.K. (Ed.), Social Psychology in Organizations: Advances in Theory and Research, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 244-68.
60. La Porte, T. (Ed.) (1975), Organized Social Complexity: Challenge to Politics and Policy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
61. Leeming, W. (1997), "Revisiting finalization", Social Science Information, Vol. 36, pp. 387-410.
62. Lilienfeld, R. (1975), "Systems theory as an ideology", Social Research, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 637-60.
63. Lilienfeld, R. (1978), The Rise of Systems Theory: An Ideological Analysis, Wiley, New York, NY.
64. Livingston, W.L. (1985), The New Plague, FES Publishing, Bayside, NJ.
65. Luhmann, N. (1982), The Differentiation of Society, Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
66. Luhmann, N. (1985), "Complexity and meaning", in Aida, S. (Ed.), The Science and Praxis of Complexity, United Nations University, Tokyo, pp. 99-104.
67. Luhmann, N. (1993), "Ecological communication: coping with the unknown", Systems Practice, Vol. 6 No. 5, pp. 527-39.
68. MacRae, D. (1951), "Cybernetics and social science", British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 2, pp. 135-49.
69. Marcuse, H.. (1968), Negations, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, Harmondsworth.
70. Masters, R.D. (1983), "The biological nature of the state", World Politics, Vol. 35 No. 2, pp. 161-93.
71. Maturana, H.R. and Varela, F.J. (1980), Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, Reidel, Dordrecht.
72. Maturana, H.R. and Varela, F.J. (1992), The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Shambala, Boston, MA (revised edition).
73. Mayntz, R. (1998), New Challenges to Governance Theory, European University Institute Robert Schuman Centre, San Domenico.
74. Mead, G.H. and Morris, C.W. (1974), Mind, Self, and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
75. Meyer, M.W. (1990), "The growth of public and private bureaucracies", in Zukin, S. and DiMaggio, P. (Eds), Structures of Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 153-72.
76. Mitchell, A. (2002), Right Side Up: Building Brands in the Age of the Organised Consumer, HarperCollins, London.
77. Powelson, J.P. (1994), Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and their Contrast with the Third World, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
78. Powers, W.T. (1973), Behaviour: The Control of Perception, Aldine de Gruyter, New York, NY.
79. Rhodes, R.A.W. (1996), "The new governance: governing without government", Political Studies, Vol. 44, pp. 652-67.
80. Rhodes, R.A.W. (1997), Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
81. Rosen, R. (1985), Anticipatory Systems: Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
82. Rosenau, J.N. (1980), The Dramas of Political Life: An Introduction to the Problems of Governance, Duxbury Press, North Scituate, MA.
83. Rosenau, J.N. and Czempiel, E-O. (1992), Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.
84. Schäfer, W. (1983), Finalization in Science: The Social Orientation of Scientific Progress, Reidel, Amsterdam.
85. Scheff, T.J. (1990), Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion and Social Structure, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
86. Scheff, T.J. (1997), Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.
87. Scott, W.R. and Meyer J.W. (1987), "Environmental linkages and organizational complexity: Public and private schools", in Levin, H.M. and James, T. (Eds), Comparing Public and Private Schools, Falmer Press, New York, NY, pp. 128-60.
88. Shibutani, T. (1961), Society and Personality: An Interactionist Approach to Social Psychology, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
89. Shotter, J. and Gergen, K.J. (1989), Texts of Identity, Sage, London.
90. Somers, M.R. (1994), "The narrative construction of identity: a relational and network approach", Theory and Society, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 605-49.
91. Stokes, P.A. (2003), "Finalization, cybernetics and the possibility of a social science", unpublished PhD, European Business Management School, Swansea.
92. Tainter, J.A. (1988), The Collapse of Complex Societies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.
93. Tainter, J.A. (1995), "Sustainability of complex societies", Futures, Vol. 27 No. 4, pp. 397-407.
94. Vickers, G. (1972), Freedom in a Rocking Boat: Changing Values in an Unstable Society, Pelican Books, Harmondsworth.
95. Volk, T. (1995), Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind, Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
96. Weaver, W. (1948), "Science and complexity", American Scientist, Vol. 36, pp. 536-44.
97. Weick, K.E. (1979), The Social Psychology of Organizing, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
98. Weick, K.E. (1995), Sensemaking in Organizations, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA.
99. Weingart, P. (1997), "From 'finalization' to 'Mode 2': old wine in new bottles?", Social Science Information, Vol. 36, pp. 591-613.
100. White, H.C. (1992), Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Action, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
101. Whitney-Smith, E. (1991), "Information technology and wealth: cybernetics, history and economics", unpublished PhD, Old Dominion University.
102. Wiener, N. (1948), Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine, 1st ed., Wiley, New York, NY.
103. Willmott, M. (2001), Citizen Brands: Putting Society at the Heart of Your Business, Wiley, Chichester.
104. Yates, J. (1989), Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MA.
105. Zadek, S. (2001), The Civil Corporation: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship, Earthscan, London.
106. Zuboff, S. and Maxmin, J. (2003), The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, London.
107. Bateson, M.C. (1991), Our Own Metaphor: A Personal Account of a Conference on the Effects of Conscious Purpose on Human Adaptation, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
108. Beer, S. (1974), Designing Freedom, Wiley, London.
109. Sen, A. (1999), Development as Freedom, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
110. Skinner, B.F. (1973), Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth.