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Unlocking Luhmann : A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory / Elena Esposito, Giancarlo Corsi, Claudio Baraldi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839456746
  • 9783839456743
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301 23
LOC classification:
  • HM701
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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.

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