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Control theory and social change: toward a synthesis of the system and action approaches -- Cybernetic theorems on feedback in social processes -- A. SIGGS information theoretic characterization of qualitative knowing: cybernetic and SIGGS theory models -- Role playing in the interview: towards a theory of artifacts in the survey-interview -- Alteration of information in channels: a cross-level analysis -- Temporalization of complexity -- Simulation of large-scale systems by aggregation -- Reality-simulation: a feedback loop -- Disciplinary prestige and the accuracy of social predictions as a deviation-amplifying feedback.

Evolution of the theory and concept -- Alienation as a concept in the social sciences -- Extensions and reformulations in Marxist analysis -- Alienation and reification -- Using Marx's theory of alienation empirically -- Psychiatric approaches -- Some problems of reification in existential psychiatry: conceptual and practical considerations -- The Tantalus Ratio. A scaffolding for an ontological personality theory -- New conceptual and theoretical approaches -- Alienation, the 'is-ought' gap and two sorts of discord -- Mediation and psychic distance -- On 'alienation': an essay in the psycholinguistics of science -- Individual alienation and information processing: a systems theoretical conceptualization -- Work and politics -- Work or life -- Political powerlessness as reality -- Current research findings -- Empirical alienation studies: an overview.

In an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this rapidly developing field. The authors address the core problems in social science caused by increasing societal complexity and analyze the inadequacy of many of the methodological tools still used for grappling with nonlinear, self-organizing systems. Together, the 18 contributors propose elements of a new methodology based on sociocybernetic principles aimed at describing and explaining the growth of societal complexity, the contribution of autopoiesis of