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Translation into Social Culture

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From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems

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In this second part of the book, dedicated to the cultural meanings of post-GOFS, systemic concepts are considered as being almost redefined within the general conceptual frameworks outlined above. The main challenge relates to the conceptual coexistence between:

  • Disciplines based more on a disciplinary usage of advanced systemic concepts

  • GOFS concepts and approaches resembling a generic conceptual tissue among disciplines

  • Interdisciplinarity based on transversal usage of models, simulations (Shiflet & Shiflet, 2014) and methodologies and popularizations allowing the usage of specialized terms in generic ways

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    Gianfranco Minati

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Minati, G., Pessa, E. (2018). Translation into Social Culture. In: From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7581-5_9

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