an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that focuses on wholeness, pattern, relationship, order, integration and organisation. Designed to move past reductionistic and mechanistic tradition of science. Also called systems theory.
GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY: "General systems theory looks past traditional science methods."
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