Systems Approach

Systems Approach is a very popular approach for creating knowledge and being a researcher/consultant/investigator is systems approach. Following are the few terminologies applicable in systems approach.

1. Synergy: Effects in a reality (or model) that mean that the total is not the same as the sum of the parts.
2. Teleology: Purposefulness
3. Finality (dynamic teleology): Purposefulness over a period of time.
4. Systems Language: A terminology developed according to the systems approach.
5. System: A number of component and relations among them.
6. Open Systems: Systems that have connections to their environment.
7. Closed systems: Systems without connections to their environment.
8. Systems environment: The surroundings of a system.
9. Real systems: The object of a system study.
10. Systems model: The reproduction of this model.
11. Systems components: Parts of systems.
12. Subsystems: Systems that are parts of larger systems.
13. Supersystems: Systems that contain smaller systems.
14. Magnifying level: The degree of details in a systems analysis (or construction).
15. Systems relations: The connection among the components of a system.
16. Systems structure: Fixed, stable characteristics (static structure) and regular processes (dynamic structure).
17. Systems process: Courses of events of both regular and non-regular kind.
18. Systems perspective: Structural and/or processual.
19. Systems analysis: Description, explanation, and (possibly) understanding of an existing real system.
20. Systems construction: Building a new system.
21. Systems theory: Systems models and /or producer-product relations that are valid for more than one real system.