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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Social systems theory may refer to one of the following theories: Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems Actor–network theory, a theoretical and methodological...

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

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...

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

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

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...

and potential migrants who hope to achieve that level of success. World-systems theory looks at migration from a global perspective. It explains that interaction...

(2007). The Theory of Open Quantum Systems. Oxford University Press. p. vii. Quantum mechanical systems must be considered as open systems Bunge, Mario...

Transition Theory as the two dominant approaches to the realist school of thought. Long Cycle Theory, espoused by George Modelski, and World Systems Theory, espoused...

others. World-systems theory has been heavily criticized from a number of angles. A common positivist critique was that world-systems theory tended towards...

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

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...

publication of world-systems research articles; to publish quantitative and comparative research on world-systems; to publish works of theory construction...

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

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

development World-systems theory Structuralist economics Dependency theory Allen, Timothy F. H. (2001). "A summary of the principles of hierarchy theory". Archived...

Third World, claiming that there is only one world which is connected by economic relations (World Systems Theory). He argues that this system inherently...