Toward Next Generation Social Systems Sciences - from Cross Cultural and Science of Artificial Points of View -

In this presentation, we focus on cross cultural analysis of social systems as a social science of artificial.
There are many sociological ideal types and its systemic properties that are developed by sociology and social systems sciences. These models are sometime considered as cross cultural ones but sometime not.  Compared with economics, sociology dose not depends on rational nor normative standpoint. Where do the universality of the ideal types and its systemic properties come from? That is a basic question for social systems theory and the reason we need more cross cultural consideration and talks.

Besides the cross cultural universality of the theory, we have to consider another universality of the theory for constructing new generation social systems theory.
Nowadays our society is becoming more artificial day by day.
On the one hand each society has its historical root, but on the other hand we are constructing artificial new global society. We have to design our society and life world from "as is" to "to be" by ourselves as something artificial. There is no sacred canopy.

How the process should be analyzed, how it can be managed and what type of theoretical concept should be constructed?  That are open and serious questions for social systems sciences.

We focus on basic concept of sociology such as individual, self, reference group, family, organization, society, social norm, micro macro link, meaning, role taking, function, structure etc. How these basic concepts can be defined on more artificial context and cross cultural context.

We reconsider these systemic properties from theoretical and a cross cultural point of view.