ISBN:
9780804787277
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (471 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cultural Memory in the Present
Uniform Title:
Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft 〈engl.〉
Parallel Title:
Print version Theory of Society, Volume 2
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing press, and electronic media, as well as ""success media,"" such as money, power, truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity and make
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 4. Differentiation; 4.1. System Differentiation; 4.2. Forms of System Differentiation; 4.3. Inclusion and Exclusion; 4.4. Segmentary Societies; 4.5. Center and Periphery; 4.6. Stratified Societies; 4.7. The Outdifferentiation of Functional Systems; 4.8. Functionally Differentiated Society; 4.9. Autonomy and Structural Coupling; 4.10. Irritations and Values; 4.11. Societal Consequences; 4.12. Globalization and Regionalization; 4.13. Interaction and Society; 4.14. Organization and Society; 4.15. Protest Movements; 5. Self-Descriptions; 5.1. The Accessibility of Society
Description / Table of Contents:
5.2. Neither Subject nor Object5.3. Self-Observation and Self-Description; 5.4. The Semantics of Old Europe, 1: Ontology; 5.5. The Semantics of Old Europe, 2: The Whole and Its Parts; 5.6. The Semantics of Old Europe, 3: Politics and Ethics; 5.7. The Semantics of Old Europe, 4: The School Tradition; 5.8. The Semantics of Old Europe, 5: From Barbarism to Critique; 5.9. The Reflection Theories of Functional Systems; 5.10. Differences in Media Semantics; 5.11. Nature and Semantics; 5.12. Temporalizations; 5.13. Flight into the Subject; 5.14. The Universalization of Morality
Description / Table of Contents:
5.15. The Differentiation of "Nations"5.16. Class Society; 5.17. The Paradox of Identity and Its Unfolding Through Differentiation; 5.18. Modernization; 5.19. Information and Risk as Descriptive Formulas; 5.20. The Mass Media and Their Selection of Self-Descriptions; 5.21. Invisibilization: The Unmarked State of the Observer and How It Shifts; 5.22. Reflecting on Autology: The Sociological Description of Society in Society; 5.23. So-Called Postmodernity; Notes; Index to Volume 2; Index to Volume 1
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 4. Differentiation; 4.1. System Differentiation; 4.2. Forms of System Differentiation; 4.3. Inclusion and Exclusion; 4.4. Segmentary Societies; 4.5. Center and Periphery; 4.6. Stratified Societies; 4.7. The Outdifferentiation of Functional Systems; 4.8. Functionally Differentiated Society; 4.9. Autonomy and Structural Coupling; 4.10. Irritations and Values; 4.11. Societal Consequences; 4.12. Globalization and Regionalization; 4.13. Interaction and Society; 4.14. Organization and Society; 4.15. Protest Movements; 5. Self-Descriptions; 5.1. The Accessibility of Society
Description / Table of Contents:
5.2. Neither Subject nor Object5.3. Self-Observation and Self-Description; 5.4. The Semantics of Old Europe, 1: Ontology; 5.5. The Semantics of Old Europe, 2: The Whole and Its Parts; 5.6. The Semantics of Old Europe, 3: Politics and Ethics; 5.7. The Semantics of Old Europe, 4: The School Tradition; 5.8. The Semantics of Old Europe, 5: From Barbarism to Critique; 5.9. The Reflection Theories of Functional Systems; 5.10. Differences in Media Semantics; 5.11. Nature and Semantics; 5.12. Temporalizations; 5.13. Flight into the Subject; 5.14. The Universalization of Morality
Description / Table of Contents:
5.15. The Differentiation of "Nations"5.16. Class Society; 5.17. The Paradox of Identity and Its Unfolding Through Differentiation; 5.18. Modernization; 5.19. Information and Risk as Descriptive Formulas; 5.20. The Mass Media and Their Selection of Self-Descriptions; 5.21. Invisibilization: The Unmarked State of the Observer and How It Shifts; 5.22. Reflecting on Autology: The Sociological Description of Society in Society; 5.23. So-Called Postmodernity; Notes; Index to Volume 2; Index to Volume 1
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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