Systemic approach
Introduction
Systemic thinking seeks to understand and analyze in an orderly and complete manner the interactions between the variables of a system or several subsystems or interrelated elements and is expressed in terms of feedback. In this way you can try to understand its operation and solve the problems presented by its properties "Emergency (philosophy)"). It is a conceptual framework, a new context that has been developed in the last seventy years that facilitates the clarity and modification of patterns.[1]
Antonym= analytical thinking; observe the parts without relation to the whole.
The system
Systems
Continuously until the General Systems Theory appeared, the method that was conceived to "do science" consisted of dividing the whole into parts, generating small pieces of information and examining each one separately. However, and thanks to the scientific principles that gave rise to systemic thinking integrated by biologists, it was noted that the analysis was being biased because they were omitting the fact that: examining the parts individually limits the data and ignores the interactions between the subsystems of the whole. One argument about this is that "examining the evolution of a species without taking into account its actions with others and with the environment is illogical."
The system is any "organism entity" or set of organized parts with a number of subsystems or components in interaction. It is made up of components, which are entities of the system that, in combination with other components, combine, separate or compare the causes to produce the consequences (inputs and outputs).
Characteristics
By definition, a system is an organized complexity with the following characteristics:
Background
General systems theory was originally stated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy in 1937. A similar development in psychiatry was represented by Kurt Goldstein. Continuing through Walter Cannon's work in physiology, there were also similar developments in communications engineering that led to cybernetics. In 1961, Talcott Parsons, in his book , was the first to systematically apply systems theory to society.[2].