ISBN:
9780804787277
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (471 pages)
Series Statement:
Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Series Statement:
Theory of society v. 2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Communication
;
Social systems
;
Sociology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the second volume of the author's magnum opus, which offers a complex theory of modern society that simultaneously considers issues of communication, the media, differentiation, and evolution.
Abstract:
Intro -- 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 -- 5.2. Neither Subject nor Object -- 5.3. 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 -- 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.
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