MS#49. Social and International Synergy, 1989 IS Journal, 3 (2), Winter 1988. Subjects: Anthropology Written: 10 April 1989 Abstract: Lecturing at Barnard College in 1941, Ruth Benedict introduced a unique and important idea of synergy in a human social context. In this paper, striving towards a mathematical anthropology, we develop a complex dynamical model for her concept of social synergy, and discuss its application to international synergy, in the emerging planetary society of nations. [PDF] 9 pages, 1.3 MB Last revised by Ralph Abraham