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social system
Definition

The concept of system appears throughout the social and natural sciences and has generated a body of literature of its own (general systems theory). A system is any pattern of relationships between elements, and is regarded as having emergent properties on its own over and above the properties of its elements.

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Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/7819