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Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea.
Eva Asselmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Sojourn Effects on Personality Trait Changes Last? A Five‐Year Longitudinal Study

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract This study examined sojourners' long‐term personality trait changes over five years, extending previous research on immediate sojourn effects. A sample of German students (N = 1095) was surveyed thrice (T1–T3) over the course of an academic year.
Julia Richter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Communication and language in Niklas Luhmann's systems theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article investigates the function and reality of language in Niklas Luhmann's systems theory. How can one interpret the systems-theoretical assumption that language is based on communication?
Maurer, Kathrin
core   +4 more sources

Beyond the ‘other’ as constitutive outside: : The politics of immunity in Roberto Esposito and Niklas Luhmann [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article re-conceptualises the ‘constitutive outside’ through Roberto Esposito’s theory of immunity to detach it from Laclau and Mouffe’s political antagonism.
Richter, Hannah
core   +2 more sources

The Paradox of Observing, Autopoiesis, and the Future of Social Sciences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The current debates in social sciences show that the paradox of observing—the embeddedness of observer in the process of observing—is at the heart of the controversy about their cognitive status and future.
Shkliarevsky, Gennady
core   +1 more source

Low-Latitude Coronal Holes at the Minimum of the 23rd Solar Cycle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Low and mid-latitude coronal holes (CHs) observed on the Sun during the current solar activity minimum (from September 21, 2006, Carrington rotation (CR) 2048, until June 26, 2009 (CR 2084)) were analyzed using {\it SOHO}/EIT and STEREO-A SECCHI EUVI ...
Abramenko, V.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Niklas Luhmann

open access: yesTrivium, 2009
Magnus Ramage, Karen Shipp
doaj   +5 more sources

A atualidade do anti-humanismo teórico: Luhmann e Althusser frente à problemática da diferenciação/integração social

open access: yesMediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2017
À guisa de uma reflexão em torno da atualidade do anti-humanismo teórico como problemática para o pensamento social contemporâneo, contrapomos as formulações do Marxismo Althusseriano com a Teoria dos Sistemas de Niklas Luhmann – aquela considerada ...
Lucas Trindade Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

El Ciberespacio como sistema y entorno social: una propuesta teórica a partir de Niklas Luhmann

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2018
Como ha sucedido con la mayoría de los avances en las tecnologías de la comunicación a lo largo de la historia, la teoría social ha escogido un enfoque antropocéntrico a la hora de analizar el Ciberespacio. Al situar al ser humano en el centro del modelo
Antonio Asencio-Guillén
doaj   +1 more source

Management as a Symbolizing Construction? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this article, we outline the concept of management as a symbolizing construction. According to Niklas LUHMANN, organizations process by referring to decisions. But decisions are not simply "given" and in principle invisible.
Mayr, Katharina, Siri, Jasmin
core   +1 more source

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