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Social science research is confronted with some serious basic problems resulting from specific characteristics of social systems. These characteristics are complexity, change, and reflexivity. The resulting problems culminate in the field of modelling large systems on a relatively low level of aggregation. The paper points out the above mentioned characteristics of social systems and discusses some perspectives of coming nearer to a solution of the resulting problems. Of high logical priority is the answer to the question whether social systems are desciribable at all. In answering this question, a description technology is developed labelled ‘real-structure modelling’.
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Müller, N. (1983). Real Structure Modelling: Towards A Valid Approach for Social Systems Analysis. In: Wedde, H. (eds) Adequate Modeling of Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69208-6_45
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