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Social differentiation is a universal characteristic of human societies. Early human societies survived and became dominant among animal species because of their superior social organization — that is, their more elaborate division of labor and consequent close coordination of activities.

— Walter F. Buckley Class and society (1959)

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A common vocabulary unifying the several "behavioral" disciplines.

Sociology and modern systems theory (1967)

The division of distinctive social roles and tasks, based upon both inherited and socially acquired individual differences, is called social differentiation.

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Openness is an essential factor underlying a system's viability, continuity, and its ability to change.

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

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Morphogenesis will refer to those processes which tend to elaborate or change a system's given form, structure, or state.

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