A theory of social systems: Family and ecology as examples

Abstract

Uses the theory of knowledge-based interactions to explain the idea of systems as extensive organismic interrelationships. Shows such extensive interactions to be possible only in the fold of a unitary epistemology, which in turn, describes the evolving histories af human experience in a grand unification process. Claims that apart from this unique foundation, no knowledge-based world view is possible, and hence social systems are truly interactive relations, which can be either knowledge-based or deknowledge-based. Uses the examples of family and ecological order as two kinds of social systems that can be explained in the fold of the extensive knowledge-based interactions. Theorizes relevant simulation systems to explain the implications of the underlying interrelations of social systems.