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Theory of society. Vol. 2 /

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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998
Otros Autores: Barrett, Rhodes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
Theory of society ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 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.
  • 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.