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Quotes from Society: A Complex Adaptive System--Essays in Social Theory — Walter F. Buckley

1922–2006 United States

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Systems theory, in its concern for the whole and its emergent properties, ignores the components.

Society: A Complex Adaptive System--Essays in Social Theory (1998)

The notion of system we are interested in may be described generally as a complex of elements or components directly or indirectly related in a network of interrelationships of various kinds, such that it constitutes a dynamic whole with emergent properties.

Society: A Complex Adaptive System--Essays in Social Theory (1998)

Historically, most societies have been heavily skewed in favor of the power pole, and most of history— especially modern history— can be seen as a struggle toward the authority pole, that is, toward the institutionalization of a process of informed, consensual self-determination of the whole, which we call "democracy".

Society: A Complex Adaptive System--Essays in Social Theory (1998)

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