We have argued at some length in another place that the mechanical equilibrium model and the organismic homeostasis models of society that have under… - Walter F. Buckley

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

We argue, then, that the sociocultural system is fundamentally of the latter type, and requires for analysis a theoretical model or perspective built on the kinds of characteristics mentioned. In what follows we draw on many of the concepts and principles presented throughout this sourcebook to sketch out aspects of a complex adaptive system model or analytical framework for the sociocultural system.

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