Sociocybernetics is the application of systems thinking and cybernetic principles in sociology and other social sciences in order to analyse social phenomena regarding their complexity and dynamics. Research interest focused on handling complexity. A systemic view is an observation attempting to trace the diversity of interaction in reality instead of analytically isolating individual causal relations and exploring them in their entire depth. Systems are defined by a certain form of distinction from their environment. It is not causality but the mutual influence of dynamic self-regulating systems that research focuses on. With a cybernetic approach, one has opted for the examination of the basic forms from which the internal order of a system results rather than for observing individual properties.
The Center for Sociocybernetics Studies Bonn was founded 2008, and grew out of the Fraunhofer Institut für Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme (IAIS). It is part of the Association "Cultures of Knowledge" (Wissenskulturen e.V.).
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The research focus of the center is the application of systems thinking and cybernetic principles in order to analyse and handle social phenomena regarding their complexity and dynamics.
