Looking for "scientific" social science: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics in Bateson's itinerary

Kybernetes

Volumn 36, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1012-1021

  Montagnini, Leone ^a,b  

^a Biblioteche di Roma   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Social processes

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

A-STABLE; CIRCULAR PROCESS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; LOGICAL TYPES; SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION; SELF-REFERENTIALITY; SOCIAL PROCESS; TURNING POINTS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 34848861841     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920710777522     Document Type: Article

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