Theory of society. Volume 1 / Niklas Luhmann ; translated by Rhodes Barrett.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Theory of society ; v. 1 | Cultural memory in the presentPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 461 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780804786478
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- Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft. English
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- HM590 .L84513 2012eb
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"Originally published in German under the title Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed April 12, 2018).
Preface; Translator's Note; 1. Society as a Social System; 1.1. The Sociological Theory of Society; 1.2. Preliminary Remarks on Methodology; 1.3. Meaning; 1.4. The Distinction Between System and Environment; 1.5. Society as a Comprehensive Social System; 1.6. Operational Closure and Structural Couplings; 1.7. Cognition; 1.8. Ecological Problems; 1.9. Complexity; 1.10. World Society; 1.11. Demands on Rationality; 2. Communication Media; 2.1. Medium and Form; 2.2. Dissemination Media and Success Media; 2.3. Language; 2.4. Morality and the Secrets of Religion; 2.5. Writing
2.6. Printing2.7. Electronic Media; 2.8. Dissemination Media: Summary; 2.9. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 1: Function; 2.10. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 2: Differentiation; 2.11. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 3: Structures; 2.12. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 4: Self-Validation; 2.13. Moral Communication; 2.14. Effects on the Evolution of the Societal System; 3. Evolution; 3.1. Creation, Planning, Evolution; 3.2. Systems-Theoretical Basis; 3.3. The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution; 3.4. The Variation of Elements
3.5. Selection Through Media3.6. The Restabilization of Systems; 3.7. Differentiation of Variation, Selection, and Restabilization; 3.8. Evolutionary Advances; 3.9. Technology; 3.10. The Evolution of Ideas; 3.11. The Evolution of Subsystems; 3.12. Evolution and History; 3.13. Memory; Notes; Index
This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. 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 lo.
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