The Planned Change of Sccial System:-An approach to "social planning" by systems theory-

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Most of the discussions on social planning have been either demands for rational social planning or empirical generalization about social planning. We avoid these approaches. The aim of this paper is to build an analytical framework which can analyze the social phenomenon of "social planning" as the object of empirical science and can pursue the logical possibility of social planning.<BR>We make some preliminaries for this aim. First, we examine the concept of "social structure" from the viewpoint of control. Second, we classify structure-controlling informations and analyze their control hierarchy. Third, we analyze the inner structure of enlarged decision-making layer which carries out social planning.<BR>Then we analyze "social planning" from the viewpoint of control and information processing. Especially we examine the cause which makes social planning start and analyze the mechanism which achieves the goal of social planning. As a result of this analysis, it is made clear that the goal of social planning is not necessarily set by societal value and that the means to the goal is not necessarily selected by rationality.
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