Administrative Groups as Social Systems

Administrative Due Process as Social-Cost Accounting

Designing Technical Systems as Social Systems

Technical systems are intuitively understood as rather different from organizations. Yet, this holds merely for their implementation. It appears to be very convenient to consider technical systems as ’automated’ social systems. The first results of a research project, investigating the benefits of this ’social stance’ towards technical systems, are reported upon in this paper. Two example techn...

Administrative Expenses of the Social Security Program

.~I)MIr\‘lS’I’l~,Z’I‘IvE: E:XPEr\‘SII:S under the social security program have never been more than a small Ijercentage of the total contributionsd-3 l)ercent in most years. Such costs are met fronl four trust funds: old-age and survivors insurance (OASI), disability insurance (I)I) , IiosI)ital insurnnre (HI), and supplementary nledical insurance (SMI). ‘I‘lre ()X+1 program was initially finan...

Mutual intentions as a causal framework for social groups.

Children's early emerging intuitive theories are specialized for different conceptual domains. Recently attention has turned to children's concepts of social groups, finding that children believe that many social groups mark uniquely social information such as allegiances and obligations. But another critical component of intuitive theories, the causal beliefs that underlie category membership,...

Social Acts and Social Systems: Community as Metaphor

The community metaphor currently dominates much of the thinking in educational theory and pedagogy, especially in the field of composition and rhetoric. This study critiques the community metaphorthrough a tripartite analysis of studentand teacher-generated metaphors. Two textual levels of metaphors-in-use are considered: grommaticol-semantic metaphors and lexical metaphors. A functional lingui...