| Titre | Le comportement directeur (Directive Behavior). Essai sur l'orientation que devrait prendre la formalisation dans les sciences sociales | |
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| Auteur | Hayward R. Alker, Catherine Paradeise, Jean-G. Padioleau | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | Numéro spécial 1970 Analyse de systèmes en sciences sociales (I) | |
| Page | 99-122 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Hayward R. Alker : Directive Behavior : A Desirable Orientation for Mathematical Social Science.
The article suggests four topic areas needing more formal analysis. Each derives from the concern of early mathematical systems theorists like Norbert Weiner, D. T. Campbell and Gerd Sommerhoff with directive behavior, defined roughly as « actual or apparent, conscious or unconscious, goal-directed activity ». The first area is the logical clarification of the variety of action modalities ; alternate formal characterizations of quasi-teleological U.N. peace-making activities provide an illustrative exemple of Sommerhoff's formal definition of the directive correlation of action and environment variables. Problems concerning action sequences and goal hierarchies include delimiting the pervasiveness of TOTE (feedback loop) hierarchies in biosocial sensing and knowing processes and the interdependence of supply and demand mechanisms in social stratification processes. The optimal and pathological properties of certain algorithmic decision-making procedures of relevance to both socialistic and capitalistic economies provides an illustration of a third kind of recommended research activity. Just as Sommerhoff was preoccupied with the quasi-teleological nature of evolution, so a computer simulation by Ronald Brunner of potentially revolutionary political development and decay exemplifies a way of formally studying emergent properties of social systems, including their possible self-transformation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1970_hos_11_1_1604 |
