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Rethinking Systems Theory: The Problem of Culture

2007· article· en· W199765528 on OpenAlexaff
Andreas Pickel

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicComplex Systems and Decision Making
Canadian institutionsTrent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHolismEpistemologyIndividualismAutopoiesisSocial systemSociologySystems theoryMethodological individualismSocial theoryPoliticsPositive economicsSocial sciencePolitical scienceComputer scienceLawEconomicsPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Systems thinking is gradually being rediscovered in the social sciences, and it has been enthusiastically embraced in the biosocial sciences (psychology, neuroscience, human biology) since about the mid-1990s. However, while the systems concept seems unproblematic for scholars in the biosocial sciences, it remains rather problematic for social scientists who have by and large rejected the systems theories of Parsons or Luhmann. Thus while “dynamic systems theory ” or “dynamic systems principles ” play a major role in psychology (Cervone, 2005) and neuroscience (Lewis, 2005), these phrases are almost completely absent in the social science literature. Systems thinking, to the small extent that it is practiced explicitly, can be found under the headings of “chaos theory, ” “complexity theory, ” and “sociocybernetics. ” While phrases such as “symbolic systems ” and “semiotic systems ” suggest that conceptualizing culture in systemic terms is not unusual, the more fundamental question of what cultural systems are and how they can be studied remain problematic (Tilly, 2000). This paper attempts to map out the place of “culture ” in a renewed systemic approach in light of contemporary debates in historical and cultural sociology, social psychology, and cross-cultural pragmatics. The

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.027
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.939
Threshold uncertainty score0.929

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0270.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.151
GPT teacher head0.396
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2007
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