Original: «The rule systems governing transactions among agents in a defined sphere specify, to a greater or lesser extent, who participates (and who is excluded), who does what, when, where and how, and in relation to whom. ln particular, they define possible rights and obligations, including rules of command and obedience, governing specified categories of actors or roles vis a vis one another. The theory deals with the properties of social rule systems, their role in patterning social life, and the social and political processes whereby such systems are produced, maintained, and transformed as well as implemented in social action and interaction.»
Fuente: General Systems: Yearbook of the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, Volumen 31. Contribuidores Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, Society for General Systems Research, International Society for the Systems Sciences. Editorial The Society, 1989. p. 83.
Tom R. Burns Frases y Citas
«Markets are social organizations, structured and regulated by more or less well-defined social rule systems.»
Fuente: Burns, Tom R.; Flam, Helena. The shaping of social organization: social rule system theory with applications. Editores Tom R. Burns, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Sage Publications, 1987. ISBN 9780803980273.
Tom R. Burns: Frases en inglés
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 1.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 1.
Fuente: The shaping of social organization (1987), p. 127; As cited in C.J. McNair et al. (2006) " The fall of management accounting http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1026&context=accfinwp".
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 3.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 4.
Fuente: The shaping of social organization (1987), p. 8; Cited in: Carola Aili, Pamela Denicolo, Lars-Erik Nilsson (2008) In Tension Between Organization and Profession. p. 228.
Fuente: The shaping of social organization (1987), p. ix; as cited in: Simon Guy and John Henneberry (2000) " Understanding Urban Development Processes: Integrating the Economic and the Social in Property Research http://bentboolean.com/people/mm/private/SOA/548_DS/StrataProposal/research%20doct's/world_urban/UrbanDevtProperty.pdf," Urban Studies, Vol. 37, No. 13, 2399–2416, 2000.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 1.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 2.
Fuente: The shaping of social organization (1987), p. 125.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 3.
“Actor-oriented, dynamic systems theories.”
This family of theories -- inspired to a great extent by Buckley -- is largely non-functionalist. It includes Buckley’s (1967, 1998) “modern systems theory,” Archer’s (1995) “morphogenetic” theory, Burns’ “actor-system-dynamics” (also ASD; Burns et al. 1985; Burns and Flam 1987), and the “sociocybernetics” of Geyer and van der Zouwen (1978). Complex, dynamic social systems are analysed in terms of stabilizing and destabilizing mechanisms, with human agents playing strategic roles in these processes. Institutions and cultural formations of society are carried by, transmitted, and reformed through individual and collective actions and interactions.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 3.
“Historical, political economic systems theory.”
The Marxian approach to system theorizing clearly points us to sociologically important phenomena: the material conditions of social life, stratification and social class, conflict, the reproduction as well as transformation of capitalist systems, the conditions that affect group mobilization and political power, and the ways ideas functions as ideologies.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 2.
“Functionalist systems theories.”
The theorists in this tradition explain the emergence and/or maintenance of parts, structures, institutions, norms or cultural patterns of a social system in terms of their consequences, that is, the particular functions each realizes or satisfies. This includes, for instance, their contribution to the maintenance and reproduction over time of the larger system. The major functionalist in sociology is arguably Talcott Parsons.
Fuente: Systems theories (2006), p. 1.