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About: Social system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 92395 citations.


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22 Feb 2019-Water
TL;DR: In this paper, a Transdisciplinary Learning Community approach has been adopted by the Universidad Catolica Boliviana to take into account the complexity of the water problems caused by social, hydrological, and ecological system imbalances.
Abstract: Bolivia has influenced the international water arenas as a pioneer of the Human Water Rights Declaration before the United Nations General Council. However, despite a positive but rather ideological evolution, the country is still facing several water challenges in practice. Water governance is extremely complex due to intricate social structures, important spatial and temporal differences in the availability of water resources, ecological fragility, and weak institutions. A Transdisciplinary Learning Community approach has been adopted by the Universidad Catolica Boliviana to take into account the complexity of the water problems caused by social, hydrological, and ecological system imbalances. In this approach, researchers and non-academic actors work closely together to integrate different ways of conceiving, using, valuing, and deciding on water issues. The approach aims at co-creating resilient solutions by recovering and restoring not only the ecological system, but also the social system in which all actors are aware of their role and responsibility. We explain the challenges and concerns raised by this approach in a case study of the Katari River Basin (KRB), which is impacted by a high degree of contamination that is mainly caused while crossing El Alto city, leading to dramatic consequences for the Lake Titicaca ecosystem and its surrounding communities.

16 citations

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TL;DR: The authors employed the Social Systems of Innovation and Production approach to analyse Swedish social democracy's current condition by historicising its current policy dilemmas in relation to the public pension system, once the jewel in the crown of the Rehn-Meidner model and the push for economic and industrial democracy, now the constraining legacy of financialisation.
Abstract: At the end of the Third Way and no sense of its future, social democrats look to Sweden for inspiration. However, Swedish social democracy is in no better condition. Scholarship is starting to grasp the broad outlines of the movement’s difficulties. Providing greater depth, this article employs the Social Systems of Innovation and Production approach to analyse Swedish social democracy’s current condition by historicising its current policy dilemmas in relation to the public pension system, once the jewel in the crown of the Rehn–Meidner model and the push for economic and industrial democracy, now the constraining legacy of financialisation.

16 citations

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TL;DR: The Social System of Knowledge (SSK) as mentioned in this paper is an accounting scheme that helps organize the search for social impact of science (SIS) indicators by mediating relations between science and society.
Abstract: The social system of knowledge—or knowledge system, for short—is an accounting scheme that helps organize the search for social impact of science (SIS) indicators. The accounting scheme specifies six related knowledge functions (production, structuring, storage, distribution, utilization, and mandating) that are performed in different domains (industry, agriculture, education, and so forth) by many institutions and organizations that vary in size, autonomy, specialization, and complexity. By mediating relations between science and society, these institutions and organizations facilitate and retard the impact of science on the larger society. The knowledge systems accounting scheme also helps identify aspects of science impacts on society (e.g., scientific evidence), aspects of society on which science impacts (e.g., the economy, polity, and culture), and structures by which social impacts of science are mediated (e.g., technical communities). The knowledge system provides a conceptual base for the future ...

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a simple conceptual model of the role of institutions in social systems is proposed to provide the present discussion with a clear conceptual framework, and perhaps also contribute to increasing the precision of the study of institution in general.
Abstract: This paper consists of three sections, each with a particular objective. The first section suggests a simple conceptual model of the role of institutions in social systems, to provide the present discussion with a clear conceptual framework, and perhaps also contribute to increasing the precision of the study of institutions in general. While the study of institutions is certainly more difficult to provide with a precise conceptual basis than quantitative studies of resource allocation, much improvement is still possible.

16 citations

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TL;DR: This work proposes a conceptual framework for thinking about a dynamically changing social system: the Living Cognitive Society, which addresses society as a living cognitive system -- an ecology of interacting social subsystems -- each of which is also a living Cognitive system.

16 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202316
202237
2021111
2020115
2019117
2018122