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Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 1528-1537, July/August 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 482-495, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Infrastructural Reversibility: No‐Regret Futures at the London Euston High‐Speed Railway Station

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Large infrastructure projects are difficult for publics to challenge, scrutinise, or engage with. A well‐researched barrier to public engagement is the technical complexity of large projects, whether it be materially present, or discursively constructed by professional experts.
Anna Plyushteva
wiley   +1 more source

The Improbability of Communication

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A new translation into Ukrainian of a classic article by the outstanding Ger­man sociologist and philosopher, the world-famous author of the original theory of social systems, Niklas Luhmann.
Niklas Luhmann, Mykhailo Boichenko, Olexandr Korol   +2 more
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Niklas Luhmann

Convergencia, 2003
En nuestro retrato intelectual primero realizamos un acercamiento a la teoría social de Luhmann , sobre todo a las ideas que se encontraron en su última publicación y segundo, una vez que hemos perfilado los rasgos mas importantes ofrecemos varias ...
Gotthard Bechmann, Nico Stehr
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Überlegungen zur Didaktik der Musiktheorie [PDF]

Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, 2014
Nach einer methodisch orientierten Analyse von drei Lehrproben erfolgen Überlegungen zur Didaktik des Musiktheorieunterrichts sowie zum Methodikunterricht des Hauptfachs Musiktheorie.
Ulrich Kaiser
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 686-697, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

Niklas Luhmann en el Sociological Abstracts (1991-2001)

Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2003
El presente trabajo estudia la presencia de Niklas Luhmann en el Sociological abstracts, uno de los más importantes índices internacionales de sociología del mundo.
Luis J. González Oquendo
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Introdução à teoria dos sistemas sociais de Luhmann a partir da ruptura epistemológica de Bachelard. Doi: 10.5020/2317-2150.2010.v15n1p258

Pensar, 2012
Este paper tem como objetivo desenvolver a introdução à teoria dos sistemas sociais de Niklas Luhmann a partir de uma ruptura epistemológica conforme a teoria de Gaston Bachelard.
Rafael Luiz Ferronatto, Vinícius Borges Fortes   +1 more
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