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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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REFERENCE FRAMES (Shared) 1)4)

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Every individual constructs his/her personal reference frame and none is perfectly identical to any other.

However they may be more or less similar and they need to be for any social life to become possible.

In fact, people engaged in similar activities (engineers for instance) share a technical reference frame in their specific activity, even if each engineer is working in his own slightly different way. Engineers are thus able to understand each other in their field, and also to develop similar habits and a specific behavior in their society.

In a wider sense, members of the same culture identify themselves through shared beliefs and common understandings: religious, linguistic, philosophical and behavioral.

While reference frames as extended to communities are a convenient abstraction, they correspond anyhow to common mental and psychical orientations, whose effects may lead to a group coordination and even "bring people in line" in the sense of the german word "Gleichschaltung"

→ Cohesion; Consensus; Conversation; Groupthink; Social system (Human); Sociality; Socialization

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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