From east to west- has the twain met? Linkages between context sensitivity and soft systems methodology

Kumar, MR; Sankaran, S

From east to west- has the twain met? Linkages between context sensitivity and soft systems methodology

Kumar, MR Sankaran, S

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Citation:: Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2006, 19 (4), pp. 365 - 381
Issue Date:: 2006-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	Kumar, MR	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Sankaran, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5485-6216	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Systemic Practice and Action Research, 2006, 19 (4), pp. 365 - 381	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This paper links context sensitivity of Indians to mode 2 of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) bringing out the similarities between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft and the primary mode and secondary mode of behaviour of context sensitivity respectively. Both SSM and context sensitivity consider the totality of environment before selecting the most appropriate behaviour. In the Indian context, the three dimensions of context sensitivity-person (patra), time (kal) and ecology (the pattern of relationships people have with their social and physical surrounding) (desh) are the three coordinates along which SSM's standard of facts and values change. The unbundling of the changing standard of SSM along the three dimensions of person, time and ecology and across the two polarities of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft provides a model which is used to explain the recent economic rise of India. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Systemic Practice and Action Research	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s11213-006-9024-6	en_US
dc.subject.classification	General Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences	en_US
dc.title	From east to west- has the twain met? Linkages between context sensitivity and soft systems methodology	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper links context sensitivity of Indians to mode 2 of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) bringing out the similarities between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft and the primary mode and secondary mode of behaviour of context sensitivity respectively. Both SSM and context sensitivity consider the totality of environment before selecting the most appropriate behaviour. In the Indian context, the three dimensions of context sensitivity-person (patra), time (kal) and ecology (the pattern of relationships people have with their social and physical surrounding) (desh) are the three coordinates along which SSM's standard of facts and values change. The unbundling of the changing standard of SSM along the three dimensions of person, time and ecology and across the two polarities of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft provides a model which is used to explain the recent economic rise of India. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006.

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