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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 2, 202-206 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727700300208
© 1977 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

An Operational Viewpoint on Social Systems: A Response to Altman

Robert J. Flynn

Indiana-Purdue University at Indianapolis

This paper suggests System Dynamics as one feasible approach to conceptualizing and operationalizing models of complex social systems, in response to Altman's (1976) call for a broadened concern in Social Psychology with a holistic, systems-oriented, time-linked, multi-causal perspective on social units. System Dynamics is described, both as a philosophy of system structure and as a method of system modeling. An illustrative application to the problem of urban decline and revival is presented, along with brief consideration of some major strengths and limitations of the approach.


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