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Out of time? Going back to the Cotterrell–Nelken debate
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue S1, Page S62-S69, September 2025.Abstract These brief comments revisit my side of the argument in the so‐called Cotterell–Nelken debate in the light of responses from two younger scholars. I suggest that the debate presupposed a considerable level of shared commitment to studying sociology's relationship to law, together with some disagreement about what was required for sociology of ...
DAVID NELKEN
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Mental self‐renewal as a measure of systems thinking
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 675-701, May/June 2025.Abstract Systems thinking research confronts theoretical and empirical challenges, and new measures based on the cognitive sciences have been sought. In this paper, mental self‐renewal is proposed as a suitable new theoretical construct for studying systems thinking.
Laura Mononen, Tuomo Kujala
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From media evolution to the Anthropocene: Unpacking sociotechnical autopoiesis
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 383-395, March/April 2025.Abstract The Anthropocene, a term encapsulating humanity's significant impact on Earth's geology, is analysed from a media and socio‐evolutionary lens. The exploration investigates the correlation between human socio‐evolution, media, technology, and the inception and progression of the Anthropocene era.
Jesper Tække
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Novum, 2013 Este documento pretende hacer un análisis de la noción de sujeto Autopoiético y de algunas características que priman en su construcción individual, la autorregulación, el autocontrol y el autoconocimiento, partiendo del concepto de ...
Sandra Liliana Daza Cuartas
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Fluid and Stable Structures in the Organisational Communication of the Modern Society [PDF]
KOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2013 This study focuses on one of the basic questions of Luhmann’s socialtheory relating to the description of modernity, namely, on the characteristics of organisations, even more specifically, it is aimed at gaining new recognitions concerning the ...
Bulcsu Bognár
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Unilateral consensus: Legitimation as a societal phenomenon in Luhmannian systems theory
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 360-373, March/April 2025.Abstract For Niklas Luhmann, the political system's primary function is the establishment of decision premises for future decisions, with these decisions being applied across different societal subsystems. However, Luhmann recognized that this resulted in the political system running the risk of de‐differentiating itself when producing collectively ...
Richard Pretorius +3 more
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La forma en acto: morfogénesis y ciencias de lo viviente en Paul Valéry
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2018 En esta contribución se exploran las relaciones entre estética y biología en dos textos de Paul Valéry: La introducción al método de Leonardo da Vinci (1894) y El hombre y la concha (1937). En estos ensayos, Valéry desarrolla una teoría morfogenética que
Laurence Dahan-Gaida
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The world according to the project
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 270-286, March/April 2025.Abstract The purpose of this paper is to address the communicative reality of projects, which has an organisational and interactional component. I argue that projects can either be seen as organisation‐bound projects which are differentiated subsystems that progress along the decision premises of the organisation or as operationally closed projects ...
Erik B. W. Aal
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Theory and Methodology in Sociology–Guiding Distinction
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 477-487, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT This study analyses how theory and methodology function as guiding distinctions in sociology, drawing upon Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory. By examining fifteen Croatian sociologists who engaged with a hypothetical case study on generative artificial intelligence in labour markets, we analysed their theoretical and methodological ...
Erik Brezovec +2 more
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