Importance: 15%
The Big Idea
Systems Theory is a way to try and grapple with the complexity of hard to describe areas such as human community and relationships by thinking of things in terms of a system that functions based on the action of various parts.
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Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, defined by its structure, function and role, and expressed through its relations with other systems. A system is “more than the sum of its parts” when it expresses synergy or emergent behavior. -Wikipedia Article
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