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Introduction to Social Systems Engineering

:	Huijiong Wang, Shantong Li
:	Introduction to Social Systems Engineering
:	Springer-Verlag
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This book integrates the basic theories (GST and Parson's AGIL framework), applying them to the components of social systems, state-run and business firms. China's 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.

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 titledIntroduction 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 was transferred to the newly established Techno-Economic Research Center (which later became the Development Research Center) of the State Council and became one of the leading group members. He has spearheaded several major national and international projects, such asComprehensive Planning of ShanXi Heavy Chemical and Energy basis 1980-2000, China by the Year 2000 (National First Class S&T Progress Award 1988),Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Policies (A joint research project with the World Book), andIntegrated Study of China's Development and Reform (A grant from the UNDP (ca. 3 million USD) from 1988-1991). He has been Vice President of the DRC Academic Committee since the 1990s. He has also served as a local consultant to the World Bank, ADB, ESCAP, OECD etc.
Professor Shantong Li is a Senior Research Fellow and former Director General of the Department of Development Strategy and Regional Economy of Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council (People's Republic of China). She was a member of the National Committee of CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) and currently holds professorships at both Peking University and Tsinghua University. Professor Li has participated in numerous joint development projects with the World Bank, UNDP, UNIDO, OECD and the ADB. She has conducted systematic research on issues concerning China's medium-term and long-term development, with a particular focus on regional economic and social development. Among many of her accomplishments Professor Li has contributed to the Development Strategy and Policies for 13th Five-Year Plan and towards 2030. She has created an applicable CGE model, the DRC-CGE model of China, and has also trained a team of scholars working in this field. This model has been applied in many research projects both domestically and abroad. She won the Fudan Management Excellence Award in 2014. She is Director of the project 'Urbanization development path selection and management research of China in the new stage, key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China' (project no. 71133003) and also joined the project 'Sustainable Urbanisation in China: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Mega-trends towards 2050' (EU Project Number FP7－266941).

	Foreword I	5
	Foreword II	5
	Preface	10
	Acknowledgements	16
	Contents	17
	Emergence of Social Systems Engineering (SSE)	26
	1 Overview	27
	1.1 Introduction	27
	1.2 Social System and Social Systems Engineering	28
	1.2.1 Exploration of Social System and SSE Before the 20th Century	28
	1.2.2 Exploration of Social System in the 20th Century	29
	1.2.2.1 Exploration by Sociologists	29
	1.2.2.2 Exploration by System Scientists and Electrical Engineers	30
	1.2.3 Exploration of SSE in the 20th Century	33
	1.2.3.1 Exploration by Universities in Japan	33
	1.2.3.2 Exploration by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	33
	1.2.4 Exploration of Social System in the 21st Century	34
	1.2.4.1 Human Ecology-Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development by Marten (2001)	34
	1.2.4.2 The Handbook of Economic Sociology (2nd Ed.) by Smelser and Swedberg (2005)	35
	1.2.4.3 Systems Thinking for Social Change by Stroh (2015)	35
	1.2.5 Exploration of SSE in the 21st Century	36
	1.2.5.1 Book Publications About SSE	36
	1.2.5.2 Description of Social-Systems Approach	38
	1.2.5.3 Description of Social Engineering	39
	1.3 Social Systems Engineering	40
	1.3.1 Necessity of Developing SSE. Two Aspects Necessitate the Development of SSE	40
	1.3.1.1 Necessity to Promote and Improve the Development of Human Society	40
	1.3.1.2 Necessity for Advancement in Education System to Train Qualified Personnel	42
	1.3.2 Time Is Ripe for Development of SSE	43
	1.3.2.1 There Is an Urgent Demand for the Development of SSE	43
	1.3.2.2 The Scope of Study of SSE is Basically Defined and Practiced	43
	1.3.2.3 Some Difficulties in SSE are Resolved and Some are Being Explored	44
	1.4 Exploration of Definition of Social Systems Engineering	45
	1.4.1 Current State	45
	1.4.1.1 Definition of Social System Engineering by Oosawa (2007)	45
	1.4.1.2 Definition of SSE by Yang and Li (2008)	46
	1.4.2 Definition of SSE Given in This Book	47
	1.4.2.1 Principal Underlining the Definition	47
	1.4.2.2 Components of SSE	47
	1.4.2.3 Definition of SSE Given in This Book	49
	1.4.2.4 Explanation of the SSE Definition	49
	1.4.2.5 Qualifications for a Social System Engineer	50
	1.5 Content Structure of This Book	50
	References	52
	2 General Systems Theory and Systems Engineering	54
	2.1 Science, Technology (S	54
	54	54
	2.1.1	54
	2.1.1.1 The Higher Economic Growth Performance Since the First Industrial Revolution	54
	2.1.1.2 The Role of S	54
	55	54
	2.1.2 Major Events in the History of Science and Technology (S	54
	476	54
	9.5.4 Types of Public Policy	477
	9.5.4.1 Social Policy	477
	9.5.4.2 Economic Policy	479
	9.5.4.3 Science and Technology Policy	479
	9.5.4.4 Environmental Policy	481
	9.5.4.5 Policy Process-Theories	483
	9.6 Case Study 1 of Applying Analytic Hierarchy Process to Policy System	484
	9.6.1 Background Information of This Case Study	484
	9.6