System (level up)

ecological and social environmental effects. While a socio-ecological perspective focuses primarily on the external influences that cause it, a systemic approach focuses primarily on observing the interactions between internal and external functional relationships (system-environment relationship).

In an evolutionary perspective, the emergence of human life is described as an emerging new quality of biological system formation through the development of language skills and a reflective consciousness in humans. Only on this basis is it possible to form social systems in which people coordinate their conscious actions in a social and communicative manner .

In social systems, people are guided by the expectations of their social environment and direct their personal actions to the self-regulatory processes of the respective social system to which they feel they belong (e.g. language community, family, company, shopping center).

The following overview makes it clear how the concept of an evolutionary, emergent system formation can contribute to the understanding of an increasingly complex social structure formation for human life processes and on which system levels different sciences can contribute to the investigation of the respective basic system functions. Effects between different system levels can be described and examined in an increasing assumption of causation ("bio-psycho-social") or in a decreasing assumption of causation ("socio-psycho-somatic") -