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Service systems can be seen as a subset of the wider category of "social systems." A given service system provides one particular type of service, within the fabric of the more inclusive social system.  
 
Service systems can be seen as a subset of the wider category of "social systems." A given service system provides one particular type of service, within the fabric of the more inclusive social system.  
  
Principles similar to those describing a convivial service system can be used to describe a convivial social system. These principles can be used in the '''design''' of social systems. (The dream of social '''design''' is a utopian project going back to early nineteenth-century thinkers such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Henri_de_Rouvroy,_comte_de_Saint-Simon the Comte de Saint-Simon], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_fourier Charles Fourier] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte Auguste Comte].)
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Principles similar to those describing a convivial service system can be used to describe a convivial social system. These principles could then be used in the '''design''' of social systems. (The dream of social '''design''' is a utopian project going back to early nineteenth-century thinkers such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Henri_de_Rouvroy,_comte_de_Saint-Simon the Comte de Saint-Simon], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_fourier Charles Fourier] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte Auguste Comte].)
  
 
Some examples of convivial social systems are given below.
 
Some examples of convivial social systems are given below.

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