id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11958 Bergen, Dan The Communication System of the Social Sciences 1967-06-30 14 .pdf application/pdf 9684 332 39 2 To be more specific, it seems possible to view the array of biblio- graphic devices developed to provide ac- cess to social science knowledge as a constituting subsystem of the larger com- munication system in social science. Indeed, not only the means by which a given element in the communication system of social science is to be formal- ized, or informalized but the'very selec- tion of the element itself, if it is to be done on more than intuitive or partially scientific grounds, must be founded on an adequate understanding of the struc- ture and function of the subsystem of which the element is not a part and of the structural-functional relationship of the element to the other elements in its own subsystem. cache/crl-11958.pdf txt/crl-11958.txt