Download or read book Community Systems Science microform a Paradigm for Development written by Randal Adcock and published by National Library of Canada. This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community systems science: a paradigm for development is an attempt to show one possible way of applying general systems science to the study and development of human communities. There are three main parts to the work: Community Systems Theory, Community Systems Analysis, and Community Systems Synthesis. Each of these parts is divided into two chapters - the first concerns community organization, the second, community change. Part One, Theory, puts forth some ideas about the nature and genesis of community. It sets the stage for Analysis and Synthesis by describing the essence of community in the abstract language and concepts of general systems theory. Chapter 1.1, Community Universals, tries to show how human communities can be seen as systems. As a system, a community is composed of two structured processes - causation and logic - joined together in a self-sustaining relationship. Chapter 1.2, Community Evolution, shows how human communities may have evolved out of human nature and man's pursuit of survival. Mutation and natural selection have determined that man evolve to defend and hunt in groups, and to personally specialize for greater collective adaptability. Part Two, Analysis, takes communities apart to illustrate how they are structured and function in development. This part compares communities across an evolutionary continuum to show how all communities are similar and different. Chapter 2.1, Community Networks, is an attempt to demonstrate the specific structure and function of community organization. Semiotic, time, space, communication, material, and command networks are the conceptual categories which seem most convenient for dissecting any community. Chapter 2.2, Community Development, shows how community organization becomes more complex and institutionalized. Development processes of differentiation and integration create nodes of related factors along network lines and between networks. Development may be a result of internal or external forces. Part Three, Synthesis, illustrates how communities can be created or developed using system principles. Chapter 3.1, Community Systems Engineering, approaches the design of a space colony. The design of new communities involves the identification and selection of desirable variables and relations for a model of the proposed community. Chapter 3.2, Community Systems Management, gives an example of how the process of community development can be controlled. Community development should be goal-oriented and self-regulated. Cross cultural development is used as an example for the management process. Insofar as the goal of Community Systems Science was initially to show how general systems science should be applied to community studies and development it is successful. However, there may be many other-ways of doing this as well. Some of the major issues have been addressed concerning any future community systems science.

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