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Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Sociology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037349706
Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804726256
Germany's most prominent social thinker here sets out a contribution to sociology that aims to rework our understanding of meaning and communication. He links social theory to recent theoretical developments in scientific disciplines.
Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804739072
This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century. It combines three decades of research in the social sciences, phenomenology, evolutionary biology, cybernetics, and information theory with an intimate knowledge of art history, literature, aesthetics, and contemporary literary theory.
Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198262388
However, unlike conventional legal theory, this volume seeks to provide an answer in terms of a general social theory: a methodology that answers this question in a manner applicable not only to law, but also to all the other complex and highly differentiated systems within modern society, such as politics, the economy, religion, the media, and education. This truly sociological approach offers profound insights into the relationships between law and all of these other social systems.
Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134927753
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Cristina Flaut,Šárka Hošková-Mayerová,Daniel Flaut
Publisher : Springer
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030000844
This book concisely presents a broad range of models and theories on social systems. Because of the huge spectrum of topics involving social systems, various issues related to Mathematics, Statistics, Teaching, Social Science, and Economics are discussed. In an effort to introduce the subject to a wider audience, this volume, part of the series “Studies in Systems, Decision and Control”, equally addresses the needs of mathematicians, statisticians, sociologists and philosophers. The studies examined here are divided into four parts. The first part, “Perusing the Minds Behind Scientific Discoveries”, traces the winding path of Syamal K. Sen and Ravi P. Agarwal’s scholarship throughout history, and most importantly, the thought processes that allowed each of them to master their subject. The second part covers “Theories in Social Systems” and the third discusses “Models in Social Systems”, while the fourth and final part is dedicated to “Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences”. Given its breadth of coverage, the book will offer inquisitive readers a valuable point of departure for exploring these rich, vast, and ever-expanding fields of knowledge.
Author : Ali Meghji
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509539963
Far from its origins in US legal studies in the 1980s, critical race theory has grown to become a leading approach to the analysis of racial inequality around the world. It has courted much controversy along the way, often misunderstood and poorly defined. So what precisely is critical race theory and what makes it different from other theories of race, racialization and racism? In this incisive book, Ali Meghji defines the contours of critical race theory through the notion of the 'racialized social system'. He thereby excavates a solid social theory that clears up many empirical and conceptual questions that continue to surface, offering a flexible, practical model for studying structural racism. In making his case, Meghji pays attention to the multiple dimensions of the racialized social system, focusing on core phenomena such as interaction orders, material interests, ideologies, emotions, and organizations. In a context where any work mentioning 'race' gets defined as critical race theory, this book expounds an approach that promises to be more generative for the social scientific study of race.
Author : Bernard Barber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000675221
Barber constructs a provisional, generalized, substantive theory of the social system, which he uses as the starting point and focus of his specialized researches. In this collection of his major writings in social system theory, Barber shows how he has used and developed such a framework over the last fifty years and demonstrates the application o
Author : Matthew Cwihun
Publisher : The Unite Humanity Research Network (TUHRN)
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781999456214
We have reached a point in our evolution where our collective priority must be on the preservation of the human genus, and we have two means of doing this: we can either work towards building and sustaining human existence within closed and determinist social systems; or, we can strive towards designing open and creative social systems that nurture the maximum creative potential of the human individual. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate why organizing humanity within open and creative social systems that nurture the conditions for individual humans to reach their greatest creative potential is not only necessary for establishing a framework for peace, it is essential for humanity to reach its omnipotent state of evolution. *** To learn more about TUHRN, please visit: https://www.TUHRN.com
Author : João Costa
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839466933
While it has become fashionable in the arena of international health to think about health systems, the theoretical underpinning of Niklas Luhmann's vast and productive theory has been given too little consideration in the field. It is rich in concepts that can facilitate a fuller understanding of what health systems are. João Costa applies these concepts and shows the analytical possibilities they open up. He argues concisely how Luhmann's Social Systems Theory offers an integrated theoretical body as well as a consistent articulation of concepts that can lay the groundwork for a vastly improved health systems thinking.
Author : United States. Congress. House Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119518707
Author : Cynthia Rayner,François Bonnici
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social change
ISBN : 9780198857457
The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.
Author : Lee Rainie,Barry Wellman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262526166
How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life. Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks. Rainie and Wellman outline the “triple revolution” that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals.
Author : Niklas Luhmann
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202363905
A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker.
Author : Bela H. Banathy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475799811
In this original text/reference, Bela H. Banathy discusses a broad range of design approaches, models, methods, and tools, together with the theoretical and philosophical bases of social systems design. he explores the existing knowledge bases of systems design; introduces and integrates concepts from other fields that contribute to design thinking and practice; and thoroughly explains how competence in social systems design empowers people to direct their progress and create a truly participative democracy. Based on advanced learning theory and practice, the text's material is enhanced by helpful diagrams that illustrate novel concepts and problem sets that allow readers to apply these concepts.
