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The Non-linear Dynamics of Meaning-Processing in Social Systems

, 2009
Social order cannot be considered as a stable phenomenon because it contains an order of reproduced expectations. When the expectations operate upon one another, they generate a non-linear dynamics that processes meaning.
Andersen, P.B., Arthur, W.B., Baecker, D., Baecker, D., Baecker, D., Bertsekas, D.P., Bhaskar, R., Cornell, D., Coveney, P., Devaney, R., Dosi, G., Elmer, J., Giddens, A., Gilbert, G.N., Grant, C. B., Grathoff, R., Habermas, J., Hayami, Y., Hobbes, T., Husserl, E., Kron, T., Kuhn, T.S., Künzler, J., Laland, K.N., Lewontin, R., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Leydesdorff, L., Loet Leydesdorff, Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Luhmann, N., Lévi-Strauss, C., Marx, K., Maturana, H.R., May, R.M., Nelson, R.R., Parsons, T., Parsons, T., Parsons, T., Rosen, R., Sahal, D., Sahal, D., Schumpeter, J., Schumpeter, J.A., Schutz, A., Schütz, A., Schütz, A., Schützeichel, R., Spencer Brown, G., Toulmin, S., Turing, A.M., Waddington, C.H.   +63 more
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A Pandemic of Possibilities: The Spread of Potentiality-Seeking Organisations under Conditions of the COVID-19 Lockdown

Journal of Organizational Sociology
The premise of this paper is that an adequate understanding of the impact the pandemic had upon society presupposes an adequate theory of society. This must include a theory of the various systems and organisations that compose society and that were ...
Andersen Niels Åkerstrøm, Carli Giacomo, Stenner Paul, Tagliaventi Maria Rita   +3 more
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Alienating justice: on the social surplus value of the twelfth camel [PDF]

, 2005
Deutsche Fassung: Rechtsentfremdungen: Zum gesellschaftlichen Mehrwert des zwölften Kamels. Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie 21, 2000, 189-215 und in Gunther Teubner (Hg.) Die Rückgabe des zwölften Kamels: Niklas Luhmann in der Diskussion über ...
Teubner, Gunther, Zumbansen, Peer
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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
wiley   +1 more source

FAMILY AS A SOCIAL SYSTEM AND HOMEGARDEN AGROECOSYSTEM: CONCEPTUAL THEORETICAL MODEL FROM THE LUHMANNIAN THEORY

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2019
The objective of the present essay is to present a conceptual theoretical model for the study of the homegarden from Luhmann's agroecological approach and theory of autopoietic social systems, from which the family is conceptualized as a social system ...
Patricia Cruz-Bautista, Lorena Casanova-Pérez, Juan Pablo Martinez-Davila, Clemente Flores-Martinez, Isaac Villegas-Rodriguez   +4 more
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Combining Luhmann and Actor-Network Theory to see Farm Enterprises as Self-organizing Systems [PDF]

, 2003
From a rural, sociological point of view no social theories have so far been able to grasp the ontological complexity and special character of a farm enterprise as an entity in a really satisfying way.
Alrøe, Hugo Fjelsted, Noe, Egon
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

At the Right Time: Temporal Precision in Personalised Medicine. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
ABSTRACT Personalised medicine was initially heralded as delivering ‘the right drug to the right patient at the right time’. Although molecular precision has dominated recent developments, the temporal dimension has remained underexplored. This paper examines how temporal precision is emerging as a defining feature of next‐generation precision medicine,
Hofmann D, Esposito E.
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Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to demonstrate Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and its concept of ideologies as a general framework for analysing the actual implementation of normative ideas in modern society. Using the example of sustainable pricing within the economic system, it shows how values can be established at the programmatic level of function ...
Kristoffer Klement
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The Logic of Identitizing Management:

Maketingu Janaru
This paper explores the logic of organization in which the majority of people, who are not particularly outstanding, can work creatively in the long-term under top-level support.
Shin Ichiro Irie
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