Systems Theory

In systems science, systems theory is an interdisciplinary theory about the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science, and is a framework by which one can investigate and/or describe any group of objects that work together to produce some result. This could be a single organism, any organization or society, or any electro-mechanical or informational artifact. Systems theory first originated in biology in the 1920s out of the need to explain the interrelatedness of organisms in ecosystems.[1] As a technical and general academic area of study it predominantly refers to the science of systems that resulted from Bertalanffy's General System Theory (GST), among others, in initiating what became a project of systems research and practice. Systems theoretical approaches were later appropriated in other fields, such as in the structural functionalist sociology of Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann.[1]

External links

• Principia Cybernetica Web |International Society for the System Sciences | Autopoiesis at the ACM website |Systems theory | Le Village Systémique | Systems Department, Open University | [http://neocybernetics.com/lectures/ Lecture videos on systems theory (neocybernetics) at Helsinki University of Technology]