Anthony Giddens e Niklas Luhmann: o direito como fórmula generalizável

Niklas Luhmann and the Body: Irritating Social Systems

For Niklas Luhmann the body seems to almost disappear in modernity. Modern society, he argues, is a system comprised of a number of operatively closed and functionally distinct sub-systems such as economics, science, law, the mass media and so on. Each system is autonomous and observes the world in its own terms via its internal communications. Thus, Luhmann’s sociology is generally characteriz...

Observing Communication : Niklas Luhmann and the Problem of Ethnography

Zusammenfassung: Ethnographische Studien präsentieren typischerweise beeindruckende Datenmengen, jedoch oft ohne dabei einen Beitrag zu disziplinären, theoretischen oder substanziellen Problemen zu leisten. Niklas Luhmann wird nicht als qualitativer Sozialforscher angesehen, seine Gesellschaftstheorie kann aber helfen, die soziologische Relevanz der Ethnographie zu steigern. Mit Blick auf diese...

Knowledge Contexts-Through the Theoretical Lens of Niklas Luhmann

Context is considered to be an important aspect of knowledge work. However, understanding of knowledge context is dominated by a perspective that assumes that context can be predefined and applicable to all knowledge work. In this paper it is argued that this approach cannot accommodate the dynamic and emergent nature of knowledge work. Using Niklas Luhmann’s socio-theoretical concepts, a defin...

Society ’ s Educational System - An introduction to Niklas Luhmann ’ s pedagogical theory

In the spring of 2002, probably the last large manuscript of Niklas Luhmann, the German sociologist, who died in 1998 at the age of 70, was published. The manuscript is an almost completely developed analysis of the educational system of contemporary society. The book is entitled Das Erziehungssystem der Gesellschaft. Despite the fact that the work is one of many analyses of the differentiated ...

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