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Niklas Luhmann (/ ˈ l uː m ɑː n /; German:; December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and a prominent thinker in systems theory. [2]
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The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann has provided one of the most elaborate theories of society available, as well as numerous works on specific aspects of society. Commonly labeled as “systems theory,” this is but a shorthand description of Luhmann’s theory.
Jan 24, 2022 · Through his many books he developed a highly original form of systems theory that has been hugely influential in a wide variety of disciplines.In Introduction to Systems Theory, Luhmann explains the key ideas of general and sociological systems theory and supplies a wealth of examples to illustrate his approach.
By introducing this distinction, making clear that social systems consist of rules, not just communications, and raising the rule concept to the same prominence in social theory as those of actor and system, autonomy can be maintained while avoiding the counterintuitive aspects of Luhmann’s theory.
- Alex Viskovatoff
- 1999
- Niklas Luhmann – Background and Academic Career
- Theory of Social Systems
- Autopoietic Systems
Luhmann was born into the family of a brewery owner in Lüneburg, Germany. In 1944, at the age of 16, he was officially drafted into the air force. From 1944 to September 1945 Luhmann was in American captivity, his treatment there later appeared to him as “not according to the rules of international conventions, to say the least“. Luhmann became a m...
Luhmann’s life’s work is a general and comprehensive theory of society that claims equal validity in the scientific investigation of social microsystems such as love relationships and macrosystems such as the legal system and politics. The claim of his theory is based on the fact that his system theory is based on communication and that the structu...
Luhmann offers, for the first time in the relatively recent history of sociology, after Emil Durkheim, Max Weber and others, a generally valid and temporally consistent concept of society that is able to dissolve the fundamental paradox that sociology itself is a part of society, i.e. a part of the object that it seeks to understand scientifically...
The historical background deals with Niklas Luhmann’s system theory and analyses whether his move ‘from territoriality to functionality’ is applicable to modern international law. The contribution analyses a possible constitutionalization in Luhmann’s “world society” in form of structural
The author focuses on three topics: first, he briefly describes Luhmann’s ideas in the context of the contemporary sociological thought; second, he identidies how Luhmann’s works are perceived...
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