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Is adaptabilty enough?
Author(s) -
Vickers Geoffrey
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830040306
Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , industrialisation , balance (ability) , politics , economic system , value (mathematics) , political system , social system , economics , risk analysis (engineering) , business , political science , computer science , sociology , market economy , psychology , social science , law , neuroscience , machine learning , democracy
The rapid industrialization of a country can be a major disrupting factor in the economic, social, and political balance which that country has established. Whether a breakdown in the system occurs, or there is an impoverishment or change in the value system, depends to a great extent on the regulatory machinery that is put into effect to counter this disruption. A conceptual model of the adaptation of a system, by pointing out the essential features of adaptation, helps in our understanding of how such problems can be dealt with.