Cybernetics for the Social Sciences

Bernard Scott, Ph.D. (1976), Brunel University, retired from Cranfield University as Reader in Cybernetics in 2010. He now works as an independent scholar. He has many publications to his credit, including Explorations in Second Order Cybernetics (echoraum, 2011).

• Cybernetics for the Social SciencesBernard ScottAbstractKeywordsProlegomenaPart 1 About This Publication and a First Look at Cybernetics Part 2 A Life in CyberneticsPart 3 The Story of CyberneticsPart 4 Some Key Concepts of CyberneticsPart 5 On MessagesPart 6 Cybernetics and the Integration of the DisciplinesPart 7 In Defence of Pure CyberneticsPart 8 Socioybernetic Understandings of ConsciousnessPart 9 Reflections on the Sociocybernetics of Social NetworksPart 10 Some Sociocybernetic Understanding of Possible World FuturesPart 11 Sociocybernetic Understandings of CulturePart 12 Summing up and What Comes NextAcknowledgementsReferences