Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America: The Cybernetics Group, 1946-1953

by Steve Joshua Heims

Paper edition of The Cybernetics Group , published in 1991, focusing on a series of conferences supported by the Macy Foundation and held between 1946 and 1953. The conferences were significant for the eminence of their participants and the subjects addressed, which concerned emerging ideas in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and psychiatry. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Genres: Sociology

348 pages, Paperback

First published January 29, 1993

Reviews

[TK Keanini]

This is the book to read if you want to know more about "The Macy's Conferences". If you asked me, this is where it all began. The people that attened this event from 1946 to 1953 were the most powerful thinkers of the 20th century.

This book accounts for the people and the dynamics of these conferences. Can you imagine going to a conference with:
Gregory Bateson
Julian Bigelow
Warren McCulloch
Margaret Mead
John von Neumann
Walter Pitts
Norbert Wiener
Heinz von Forster
W Ross Ashby
Claude Shannon

Seriously! All that we need to know to solve these techno-social problems of today were being solved back in the 40's adn 50's.