# A technique for treating large, complex organizations; - Walter F. Buckley

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# A technique for treating large, complex organizations;

Walter F. Buckley

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About Walter F. Buckley

Walter Frederick Buckley (1922 – January 26, 2006) was an American sociologist, and Professor of sociology, who was among the first to apply concepts from general systems theory (GST), based on the work of Bertalanffy, to sociology.

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Alternative Names: Walter Frederick Buckley

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Ludwig von Bertalanffy Talcott Parsons Ervin László Tom R. Burns Mike Jackson

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In modern science, in fact, let alone modern systems theory, cause disappears wherever you have a very complex system of interrelated elements.

# A common vocabulary unifying the several "behavioral" disciplines.

Don't simply blame the individuals involved in policy decisions (although they must shoulder the moral and legal responsibilities); blame the sociocultural structure within which they are enmeshed. Search for the role pressures, the premiums and penalties that result from doing or not doing things in certain ways, the goals held out with associated carrots and sticks, and the tensions generated by the often incompatible demands of peers, family, sub- and super-ordinates, politicians, and national flag