04125nam 2200709 a 450 991046193480332120200520144314.00-8047-8647-X10.1515/9780804786478(CKB)2670000000259505(EBL)1040656(OCoLC)815667395(SSID)ssj0000758690(PQKBManifestationID)12311570(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000758690(PQKBWorkID)10781252(PQKB)10039832(MiAaPQ)EBC1040656(DE-B1597)563748(DE-B1597)9780804786478(PPN)248807579(Au-PeEL)EBL1040656(CaPaEBR)ebr10611501(OCoLC)1224278633(EXLCZ)99267000000025950520120529d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheory of society[electronic resource] Volume 1 /Niklas Luhmann ; translated by Rhodes BarrettStanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20121 online resource (488 p.)Theory of society ;v. 1Cultural memory in the present"Originally published in German under the title Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft."0-8047-3950-1 0-8047-3949-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Translator's Note; 1. Society as a Social System; 1.1. The Sociological Theory of Society; 1.2. Preliminary Remarks on Methodology; 1.3. Meaning; 1.4. The Distinction Between System and Environment; 1.5. Society as a Comprehensive Social System; 1.6. Operational Closure and Structural Couplings; 1.7. Cognition; 1.8. Ecological Problems; 1.9. Complexity; 1.10. World Society; 1.11. Demands on Rationality; 2. Communication Media; 2.1. Medium and Form; 2.2. Dissemination Media and Success Media; 2.3. Language; 2.4. Morality and the Secrets of Religion; 2.5. Writing2.6. Printing2.7. Electronic Media; 2.8. Dissemination Media: Summary; 2.9. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 1: Function; 2.10. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 2: Differentiation; 2.11. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 3: Structures; 2.12. Symbolically Generalized Communication Media, 4: Self-Validation; 2.13. Moral Communication; 2.14. Effects on the Evolution of the Societal System; 3. Evolution; 3.1. Creation, Planning, Evolution; 3.2. Systems-Theoretical Basis; 3.3. The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution; 3.4. The Variation of Elements3.5. Selection Through Media3.6. The Restabilization of Systems; 3.7. Differentiation of Variation, Selection, and Restabilization; 3.8. Evolutionary Advances; 3.9. Technology; 3.10. The Evolution of Ideas; 3.11. The Evolution of Subsystems; 3.12. Evolution and History; 3.13. Memory; Notes; IndexThis first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing press, and electronic media as well as ""success media,"" such as money, power, truth, and loCultural Memory in the PresentSociologySocial systemsCommunicationElectronic books.Sociology.Social systems.Communication.301Luhmann Niklas1927-1998.118733Barrett Rhodes1033799MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461934803321Theory of society2452529UNINA