# A viewpoint that gets at the heart of sociology because it sees the sociocultural system in terms of information and communication nets; - Walter F. Buckley

A system is more than the sum of its parts.

# A synthetic approach where piecemeal analysis is not possible due to the intricate interrelationships of parts that cannot be treated out of context of the whole;

The modern systems view, which flowered during World War II (though building on principles in the wind much earlier), has already borne its first fruits and is in danger of a superficial acceptance into the corpus of sociology by way of the incorporation of some of its now common vocabulary.