Does systems differentiation present a risk for contemporary society?

Title:

Does systems differentiation present a risk for contemporary society?

Creator:

Jiří Šubrt

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:8e60c6ab-a316-4c55-a7a8-ed7dd0d042bf
uuid:8e60c6ab-a316-4c55-a7a8-ed7dd0d042bf

Subject:

filozofie, philosophy, systems differentiation, subsystems, self-reference, media, codes, risk, supervision, 5, and 101

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Description:

For Niklas Luhmann modern society is a functionally differentiated society, i. e. it is composed of heterogeneous but equal parts which are relatively independent and are defined as social subsystems. Luhmann’s analysis presents contemporary society as a whole differentiated into functionally dependent yet autonomous sub-systems that constitute neighbouring worlds for each other. This raises the question of the existence or non-existence of potential unifying forces or integration mechanisms. In Luhmann’s view the main problem is the non-existence of means of “metacommunication”. The development of specialised media and codes in the individual sub-systems increases the overall complexity of the social system, but does not entail the metacom¬munication that would make possible the self-observation and self-reference of the social system as a whole. and Jiří Šubrt.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

25-39

Source:

Teorie vědy | 2009 Volume:31 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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