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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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25 Sep 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the integration of different theoretical approaches that can shape research on children's participation, looking at interactions, complex social systems that include interactions, and narratives that are produced in these complex social system.
Abstract: This paper aims to clarify the meaning of children’s participation in the relationship between children’s individual action and the social treatment and consequences of this action. For this purpose, the paper explores the integration of different theoretical approaches that can shape research on children’s participation, looking at interactions, complex social systems that include interactions, and narratives that are produced in these complex social systems. This integration allows the understanding of the ways in which children actively participate in communication processes, social structures condition children’s active participation, and children’s active participation can enhance structural change in social systems, through the implementation of promotional communication systems. The paper highlights the following paradox: the relevance of children’s action for social change depends on the relevance of adults’ action in promoting children’s actions. This theoretical perspective is exemplified in the case of promotion of children’s active participation in the education system through the empirical analysis of cases of videotaped and transcribed interactions, highlighting facilitation systems of classroom communication. The analyzed data are based on a field research in Italian classrooms regarding a specific methodology of facilitation of communication. The analysis of these data shows the ways in which the facilitation system creates the paradoxical relationship between structures that condition children’s active participation and children’s active participation that enhances structural change. The paper highlights a new way of dealing with children’s participation, based on a social constructionist, systemic, and interactionist approach.

37 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a new concept of a farm enterprise as a self-organizing social system, which combines ideas from Actor-Network theory (ANT) and Luhmann's theory of social systems, can serve as a useful ontological platform for understanding a farm-enterprise as an entity independent of a scientific observer.
Abstract: The growing attention to sustainable food production and multifunctional agriculture calls for a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary research and development perspective on farming, which is able to grasp the environmental, social, technical, and financial aspects of a farm and the dynamic relationship between the farm enterprises and the surrounding world. Our thesis is that a transdisciplinary approach needs to build on a working ontology that goes beyond the epistemology of each discipline and that is not just pieced together of the ontologies connected to these different epistemologies. Based on a review of three prevailing theoretical frameworks within the field of agro-sociology: The farming styles approach, the Bawden approach, and Conway’s agroecosystem approach, we argue that these existing theories do not offer such a theoretical framework. The claim of this paper is that a new concept of a farm enterprise as a self-organizing social system, which combines ideas from Actor-Network theory (ANT) and Luhmann’s theory of social systems, can serve as a useful ontological platform for understanding a farm-enterprise as an entity independent of a scientific observer. In this framework, each farm is understood as a self-organizing node in a complex of heterogeneous socio-technical networks of food, supply, knowledge, technology, etc. This implies that a farm has to be understood as the way in which these network relationships are organised by the farm as a self-organizing social system. Among all the different possible ways in which to interact with the surrounding world, the system has to select a coherent strategy in order to make the farming processes possible at all. It will be discussed how this framework may add to the understanding of the continuous development of a heterogeneity of farm strategies and contribute to a more comprehensive view of the fields of regulation and extension.

37 citations

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TL;DR: The authors analyzed how public demands have affected ecologists in the United States, and how they have tried to come to terms with changing political relationships, and their response suggests the tensions between public activity and the traditional norms of the scientific community between the social obligations of scientists to influence the use of science and their professional obligation to protect the integrity and development of their discipline.
Abstract: What are the implications of heightened concern among scientists about applying their work to the social problems of society? As scientists seek ways to use their expertise directly in the public interest, how will this affect the organization of science as a social system? And how will public involvement of scientists bear on intellectual activities within the disciplines? The effect of the environmental movement on the discipline of ecology provides some insight into these questions; for as the expertise of ecologists was perceived as a social resource, relevant to a major public problem, scientists were thrust into the political arena, forced to face many of the issues and implications of social responsibility. This paper will analyze how public demands have affected ecologists in the United States, and how they have tried to come to terms with changing political relationships. Their response suggests the tensions between public activity and the traditional norms of the scientific community between the social obligations of scientists to influence the use of science and their professional obligation to protect the integrity and development of their discipline.

37 citations

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TL;DR: It is contended that enhanced awareness of the hospital itself as a social system may be a precondition of cost-effective hospital information and communication technologies.

37 citations

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Jamie L. Callahan1
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of a not-for-profit organization uses Hochschild's emotion systems theory and Parsons's social systems theory to examine the purposes for which organizational members managed their experience or expression of emotion.
Abstract: This case study of a not-for-profit organization uses Hochschild's emotion systems theory and Parsons's social systems theory to examine the purposes for which organizational members managed their experience or expression of emotion. The study found that emotion work actions were attributed to all four system functions of Parsons's theory. The study shows that it may be possible to use emotion work actions by individuals to take a distributed view of organization-level phenomena. © 2000 by Jossey-Bass, A Publishing Unit of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

37 citations


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YearPapers
202316
202237
2021111
2020115
2019117
2018122