World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective) is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social...

applied to other systems at every level of nesting, and in a wide range of fields for achieving optimized equifinality. General systems theory is about developing...

A world-system is a socioeconomic system, under systems theory, that encompasses part or all of the globe, detailing the aggregate structural result of...

Systems theory in archaeology is the application of systems theory and systems thinking in archaeology. It originated with the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy...

equations are employed, the theory is called continuous dynamical systems. From a physical point of view, continuous dynamical systems is a generalization of...

The interstate system is a concept used within world-systems theory to describe the system of state relationships that arose either as a concomitant process...

contexts, enabling systems change. Systems thinking draws on and contributes to systems theory and the system sciences. The term system is polysemic: Robert...

relations World-systems theory Third-Worldism Third World socialism Maoism–Third Worldism First World Second World Third World Fourth World Developed...

Social systems theory may refer to one of the following theories: Actor–network theory, a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where...

Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and...

thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory. This concept was expanded upon with the advent of information theory and subsequently systems theory. Today the concept has...

systems theory General systems theory Living systems theory LTI system theory Social systems Sociotechnical systems theory Mathematical system theory...

Wallerstein refined the Marxist aspect of the theory and expanded on it, to form world-systems theory. World Systems Theory is also known as WST and aligns closely...

chaos theory, catastrophe theory, and bifurcation theory. In social systems, deterministic chaos is infrequent, because the elements of the system include...

Systems theory in anthropology is an interdisciplinary, non-representative, non-referential, and non-Cartesian approach that brings together natural and...

economist. He was one of the formulators of the Dependency Theory and supported the World-System theory. Dos Santos had a bachelor's degree in sociology and...

complex sociotechnical systems. The term sociotechnical systems was coined by Eric Trist, Ken Bamforth and Fred Emery, in the World War II era, based on...

Abstract systems theory (also see: formal system) Action Theory Adaptive systems theory (also see: complex adaptive system) Applied general systems theory (also...

Ecological systems theory is a broad term used to capture the theoretical contributions of developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. Bronfenbrenner...

languages to peripheral positions. Besides, the world-systems theory also allowed the global language system to expand further. It focuses on the existence...

studying social systems is the difficulty of forming and testing theories; social systems are manipulated or controlled and large-scale systems cannot be reproduced...

Marxist and neo-Marxist international relations theories are paradigms which reject the realist/liberal view of state conflict or cooperation, instead...

A glossary of terms relating to systems theory. Adaptive capacity: An important part of the resilience of systems in the face of a perturbation, helping...

structures, and practices. The theory views the world system as a social system with a cultural framework called world polity, which encompasses and influences...

on World System Theory, August 1997 Carlos A. Martínez-Vela, World Systems Theory, paper prepared for the Research Seminar in Engineering Systems, November...

environment. James Grier Miller's living systems theory is a general theory about the existence of all living systems, their structure, interaction, behavior...

such as power grid, transportation or communication systems, complex software and electronic systems, social and economic organizations (like cities), an...

Nations (1948). The most influential IR theory work of the post-World War II era was Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics (1979)[citation...

of disorder and irregularities. Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection...

expressed in its functioning. Systems are the subjects of study of systems theory and other systems sciences. Systems have several common properties...