Unlocking Luhmann : A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory /

Baraldi, Claudio,

Unlocking Luhmann : A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory / Elena Esposito, Giancarlo Corsi, Claudio Baraldi. - 1 online resource (276 pages)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Foreword to the Italian Edition -- Introduction -- Ways to Read this Book -- Art System (Kunstsystem) -- Asymmetrization (Asymmetrisierung) -- Attribution (Zurechnung) -- Autopoiesis -- Code -- Communication (Kommunikation) -- Complexity (Komplexität) -- Conflict (Konflikt) -- Constructivism (Konstruktivismus) -- Differentiation (Differenzierung/Ausdifferenzierung) -- Differentiation of Society (Differenzierung der Gesellschaft) -- Dissemination Media (Verbreitungsmedien) -- Double Contingency (Doppelte Kontingenz) -- Economic System (Wirtschaftssystem) -- Education System (Erziehungssystem) -- Event (Ereignis) -- Evolution -- Expectations (Erwartungen) -- Functional Analysis (Funktionale Analyse) -- Identity/Difference (Identität/Differenz) -- Inclusion/Exclusion (Inklusion/Exklusion) -- Information -- Interaction (Interaktion) -- Interpenetration and Structural Coupling (Interpenetration und strukturelle Kopplung) -- Language (Sprache) -- Legal System (Rechtssystem) -- Love (Liebe) -- Mass media (Massenmedien) -- Meaning (Sinn) -- Meaning Dimensions (Sinndimensionen) -- Medical System (Krankensystem) -- Medium/Form -- Morality (Moral) -- Negation -- Operation/Observation (Operation/Beobachtung) -- Organization (Organisation) -- Paradox (Paradoxie) -- Political System (Politisches System) -- Power (Macht) -- Process (Prozess) -- Program (Programm) -- Property/Money (Eigentum/Geld) -- Protest -- Psychic Systems (Psychische Systeme) -- Rationality (Rationalität) -- Redundancy/Variety (Redundanz/Varietät) -- Re-entry -- Religious System (Religionssystem) -- Risk/Danger (Risiko/Gefahr) -- Scientific System (Wissenschaftssystem) -- Self-description (Selbstbeschreibung) -- Self-Reference (Selbstreferenz) -- Semantics (Semantik) -- Social System (Soziales System) -- Society (Gesellschaft) -- Sociological Enlightenment (Soziologische Aufklärung) -- Structure (Struktur) -- Symbolically Generalized Media (Symbolisch generalisierte Kommunikationsmedien) -- System/Environment (System/Umwelt) -- System of Families (System der Familien) -- Time (Zeit) -- Truth (Wahrheit) -- Values (Werte) -- World (Welt) -- World Society (Weltgesellschaft) -- List of Luhmann's works

Open Access

Luhmann's theory is fascinating and complex. It offers incomparably enlightening insights, references and research opportunities, but reveals its utility only after a quite high competence threshold. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or by references to concepts presented elsewhere, readers inside and outside sociology get the required support to explore sociological systems theory and to engage with it. Luhmann himself, in his introduction, praises the form of the glossary to cope with the challenges of the theoretical description of our highly complex society.


In English.

3839456746 9783839456743

10.14361/9783839456743 doi


Bielefeld University Press.
Communication Theory.
Complexity.
Social Relations.
Society.
Systems Theory.
Theory of Society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Social systems.
System theory.
Social sciences.

Bielefeld University Press. Communication Theory. Complexity. Social Relations. Society. Systems Theory. Theory of Society.


Electronic books.

HM701

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