Opening and closing in open systems

Bibliographic Data

ID7519142
AuthorsOrrin E Klapp (Western University, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume20
Issue4
Pages251-257
Publication date1975-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSystems Research and Behavioral Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1092-7026 • E-ISSN: 1099-1743
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/bs.3830200406
OpenAlexW2082994625
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited21

After considering some phenomena of collective behavior, this paper suggests an amendment to the open social system model. Only under some conditions does a pluralistic society approximate J. S. Mill's description of the free market of ideas. A more accurate picture is continual oscillation between relative openness and closedness—resilient adjustment to intakes of information and states of entropy. When such oscillations are more fully analyzed as information games, we may better understand how open systems work, as well as such phenomena as ethnic revivalism, cultic movements, backlashes, mass contagions, fads, and fashion cycles

Closing (real estate · Control theory (sociology · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Mathematical economics · Open system (computing · Openness to experience · Political science · Positive economics · Sociology · Chaos, Complexity, and Education · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Law · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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