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Write short note on Cybernetic Hierarchy of Control.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Sociological Thinkers

The cybernetic hierarchy of control is Talcott Parsons' answer to a basic question: which of the systems of action steers the others? He took the idea from Norbert Wiener's cybernetics (Cybernetics, 1948). In a thermostat, a small amount of information regulates a large amount of energy. Parsons set out the hierarchy most fully in Societies:…

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