SOCIOTECHNICAL MACROSYSTEM

Charles François (2004). SOCIOTECHNICAL MACROSYSTEM, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3102.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(2)
ID	◀ 3102 ▶
Object type	Human sciences

“An evolving society (which) has social, economic, technological, psychological, political, and other dimensions, and… interacts with the natural environment” (Adapted from K.DE GREENE, 1991, p.69).

The notion appearently includes regions, nations and possibly the world system in the making. It will always however be difficult to define the limits of such a system and to describe it in a more or less satisfactory way.

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