IDEAL-TYPE (Organic)
Charles François (2004). IDEAL-TYPE (Organic), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1607.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1607 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Methodology or model |
According to SUTHERLAND, the characteristics of organic ideal-types are as follows:
- “Interface conditions: Highly open with respect to environment and exogenous forces. External determinants which affect the system may, therefore, be too far removed (spatially or temporally) to be analytically observable at any point of time.
- “Structural characteristics: Parts are not arrayed in a neat, stable hierarchy but stochastically, with the structure and direction of interrrelationships generally altering almost constantly in response to localized changes of environmental influences, etc.
- “Dynamic properties: Parts have potential for inaugurating opportunistic or strategic behavior in response to local parameter changes; causal trajectories may be altered locally and interactions may be equifinal; dynamic (driving) forces may be transparent rather than tangible and manipulable.
- “Normative analytical properties: Only partial:
- empirical inaccessibility
- immeasurability
- imperfect controlability
- unpredictability
- “Amenability to inference and induction: Future state conditions cannot be successfully inferred from initial state conditions” (p.97).