Proposal of Trichotomy Approach to Social systems

Abstract

The essence of the proposal is to point out three general princiles of social system constitution and to affer system theory which regards any actual social system as composed of a particular mix pattern of adapting these princiles. Three patterns of interaction of social agents( 1)exchange, 2)order-obedience, and 3)mutual aid), occupy the core pasition of the approach, and, it is asserted, they nurture corresponding patterns of social agents( 1)individualist, 2)hierarchist, and 3)communalist) at the one hand, and constitute corresponding patterns of social system(for example, 1)market system, 2)planning system and 3)reciprocity system as economic system)and culture(for example, 1)I-type, 2)H-type, and 3)S-type and G-type, of Maruyama's mindscape)at the other. Any particular mix pattern of the principles, it is asserted, gives the social system corresponding particular pattern of its behavior, and from this viewpoint, an interpretation and a perspective and presented as to the enormous trends of the contemporary world (the restructuring of the welfare state, of the former socialist economies and of the international economic relations).