Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:26:04 +0000
From: Robert Maxwell Young <robert-AT-rmy1.demon.co.uk>
Subject: M-PSY: Barbara Heyl classic article on systems thinking at _Science as


	The web site associated with the journal _Science as Culture_ and
forum of the same name holds articles from back issues of the journal, as
well as other materials which forum members may wish to discuss:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html
	The web site now includes Barbara Heyl's classic article, 'The
Harvard "Pareto Circle"', which discusses the ideological origins of the
concepts of social system and social equilibrium, involving the influence
of  L. J. Henderson on the social science writings of  Talcott Parsons,
Charles Homans and Crane Brinton, in which Henderson drew on the
ultra-conservative theories of Vilfedo Pareto to combat radical and Marxist
ideas in American social science. This essay is of considerable interest
for the understandng of systems thinking in the human sciences and in the
functionalist tradition.


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