Observing the Second Quarter of the 21st Century: A Sociocybernetics Approach

How can sociology produce knowledge that goes beyond immediate reactions and contributes to a deeper understanding of ongoing changes? Big challenger arises uncovering the social roots of crises and transformations, analyzing how inequalities are produced and contested, examining how institutions, democracy and society are reshaped, and understanding how actors, from grassroots movements to global elites, navigate and transform our world. However, as sociocyberneticians observing the observers of the data that describes these and other dimensions, we can ask for the trajectories, states and dynamics behind the scenes, we can ask for the Facts of Turbulent Times. With the possibility of open-access data available over the internet, this session will accept abstracts about ideas and practices that submerge the participant on a discovery activity about the perceived and real state of world, steering new thinking on the contradictory results. At the end, some conclusions will enrich the sociocybernetics approach on facing the problems to understand the envisioned solutions better.