Introduction to Social Systems Engineering [Hardcover]

This book integrates the basic theories (GST and Parsons AGIL framework), applying them to the components of social systems, state-run and business firms. Chinas development experience offers a valuable case study that can provide readers deeper insights into this comparatively young discipline, and into China. Though the discipline of systems engineering and its application to hardware engineering system are well established, social systems engineering is an emerging discipline still being explored. This book may be the first English-language publication on this promising subject.
Part One? Emergence of Social Systems Engineering.- Chapter 1 Overview.- Chapter 2 General Systems Theory and Systems Engineering.- Chapter3 Social System.- Chapter4 Growth of Social Systems Engineering.- Part Two Outline of Social Systems Engineering.- Chapter 5 Methodology of Social Systems Engineering.- Chapter 6 Boundary and environment analysis of a social system.- Chapter 7 Design of a social system.- Chapter 8 Operation of a social system-ntional , enterprise and regional planning.- Chapter9 Control and regulation of a social system.- Chapter 10 Institutions for development of a social system.- Part Three? Application of Social Systems Engineering.- Chapter 11 Growth of China to be case study 1950-1980.- Chapter 12 Growth of China to be case study 1981-2015.
Huijiong Wang has 33 years of working experience in the design, planning and operation of electrical power systems (generation, transmission, distribution and utilization) in China. His last position in the engineering field was Deputy Chief Engineer of the Bureau of Electricity, Yunnan Province. He published a book titled Introduction to Systems Engineering (Chinese Version: two volumes) in the 1980s.

He became a senior research fellow of the Chinese Academy of Social Science through open examination in 1980, and served as a consultant at UNIDO in 1981. Later, he walS