SOCIOCULTURAL SYSTEM
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 3095 ▶ |
| Object type | Human sciences |
E. LASZLO proposed the following classification of sociocultural systems with their basic characteristics (in order of growing complexity):
- Kinship system: Kinship organization (Family, clan, tribe); multi-purpose stone tools; human energy; nomadic hunting territories; hunting economy; pictograms
- Village system: Special purpose tools; animal energy; farming economy; ideograms.
- Empire system: Theocracy-autocracy; metal tools; inorganic energy; integrated economy; writing; special purpose towns; administration.
- Nation-state system: Democracy; machine technology; transformation of energy; mechanical transmission of information; Newtonian science. (Federal or unitary state)
- Planetary system: Three dimensional boundaries; ecumenism; internationalism; automation; nuclear energy; electronic transmission of information; Einsteinian science (1974, p.40).
The socio-cultural system is basically generated as a dissipative structure, whose complexity grows (in human brains, in economic structures) in proportion of permanently available energy.