The Performance of Social Systems

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The Performance of Social Systems is written by Francisco Parra-Luna and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0306463091 (ISBN 10) and 9780306463099 (ISBN 13).

Parra-Luna (politics and sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) presents 18 contributions which attempt to build models that can measure and analyze output/input quotients of global efficiency (i.e., satisfaction in goals) in the study of complex social systems--a topic which he argues has been incomprehensibly ignored by the social sciences. The papers are organized into sections on the definition of values, models for defining social performance, and operational approaches to the concept of social performance. Some articles explore the topic from the perspective of the global system, while others focus on specific areas within the social system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR