Institutionalized Social Action: Control at the Program Level

Thomas J. Fararo and John Skvoretz

Chapter 5 in Purpose, Meaning, and Action, 2006, pp 113-136 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we set out and illustrate the principle that institutionalized social action can be represented in cybernetic terms as systems of if-then rules that generate coordinated social actions by multiple interacting persons. We explain how this approach draws upon both sociology and cognitive science, and how it relates to the control hierarchy developed by Powers (1973).

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-10809-8_5

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