The principal objective here is to explain the multitudinous preferences, values and activities in the context of the massive system of interactions that are generated between world systems and the human environment. We take the example of the family and ecology to explain the systemic worldview.

The interactive meaning of the family as a social minuscule can be realized only in the presence of certain unifying set of values premised on knowledge sharing and development within itself and with the socioeconomic environment around. In all of these investigations we will keep to the ethico-economic epistemology of premising the structure of a system in its ethical endogeneity. The extended implication of this family-centered emergence of social interactions is that all subsystems that interact and regenerate the values of the family are themselves governed by the principle of ethical endogeneity.

We will begin by explaining a number of concepts as follows: By the concept of a system we mean an organismic whole in terms of extensive interrelationships that it can generate within and across itself. No interactions are expected in a state of perfect individualism nor in a limited sense of methodological individualism. Such individuated cases cannot be said to be systems in light of the definition here. The contrary concept of such a social case is that of optimal monadic states of agents taken either in their individualistic forms or in the form of significant polarity. In light of the above definition of a system, a family can never be non-interactive among its members. Yet interactions may be either of the coercive or of the consensual types. In the coercive type we have a trend in the family as a social system to converge to a breakup or to hegemony by means of increasing individualism within itself.

Three cases of the social system in light of the definition centering on the concept of interactions, are given below. We take these up one at a time.

Case 1: Hegemonic Subsystem

Case 2: Limiting Case of Hegemony Leading to Individualism

Case 3: Partial Interdependence Collapsing into Polarity

Case 4: Systems with Extensive Interactions

Completely Relational Universe

Applications of the Systems Theory

Family as a System
Ecological System

Conclusion