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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Niklas"”.
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Razón y normatividad. El debate entre Jürgen Habermas y Niklas Luhmann
La controversia entre JürgenHabermas y NiklasLuhmann estuvo vigente durante aproximadamente tres décadas. El punto de inicio fue una obra conjunta publicada en 1971 (Teoría de la sociedad o tecnología social). El desenlace, el fallecimiento de Luhmann en 1998. Durante este periodo, la obra de ambos …
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Die Interdependenz formaler und informaler Strukturen im Lichte der Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns
Die meisten Menschen verbringen heutzutage den Großteil ihres Daseins in Organisationen. Sie werden immer häufiger in Organisationen geboren (Krankenhaus), in Organisationen sozialisiert (Kindergärten, Schulen usw.), sind für ihre Existenzsicherung auf Lohnzahlungen von Organisationen angewiesen, …
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The Military of Guatemala and Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Autopoietic Social Systems
Niklas Luhmann's theory of autopoietic social systems challenges traditional social science by dissolving the individual as an analytical category and replacing it with the functional structures of social systems. The opaque complexity of this model of thought has rendered it extremely difficult to …
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Was leistet Geld? Ein Vergleich der Theorien von Niklas Luhmann und Georg Simmel.
Moderne Gesellschaften zeichnen sich unter anderem dadurch aus, dass wirtschaftliche Transaktionen in der Regel durch Geld vollendet werden. In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit wird nun das Angebot gemacht, diese geldvermittelten Transaktionen als einen kommunikativen Akt zu begreifen. Im Gegensatz zu …
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The University as a social system: Niklas Luhmann on the problem of self-descriptions
This examination is undertaken to investigate whether the self-description provided by the University of Cape Town (UCT) regarding its race-based affirmative action in admissions is responsible for the heated debate that it continues to elicit. It begins with a close examination of Luhmann's …
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A diferenciação da literatura moderna alemã no processo constitutivo da sociedade funcional : uma abordagem sistêmica baseada em Niklas Luhmann
… dos sistemas desenvolvida pelo sociólogo alemão Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998). Analisa-se a literatura alemã por volta de 1800 dentro de uma concepção histórica que vê neste período o ponto culminante da transformação de uma sociedade estratificada em direção a uma ordem social moderna, estruturada …
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The paradox of differentiation : Niklas Luhmann's social systems theory and the impossibility of unilateral control - the case of apartheid
The German sociologist, Niklas Luhmann, proposed a social theory that could describe a society at a far more abstract level than is customary. Based on his study of general systems theory and drawing on the works of biologists and mathematicians, Luhmann formulated his theory of social systems …
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Ursachen von HIV/AIDS Epidemien im subsaharischen Afrika aus systemischer Sicht. Bewältigungsstrategien von UNAIDS.
… werden basierend auf der Systemtheorie von Niklas Luhmann herausgearbeitet und dargestellt. Abschließend werden die Bewältigungsstratgien von UNAIDS (als zentraler Akteur der internationalen HIV/AIDS-Politik) im Hinblick auf die erarbeitete systemische Konstellation der Ursachen von …
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Massenmedien und Meinungsmarkt : Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von Öffentlichkeit in der modernen Gesellschaft; Systemtheoretische Reflexionen zu einer Ethik der Beobachtung
… Theorie sozialer Systeme des Soziologen Niklas Luhmann vor. Den Grundgedanken der Beobachtung von Beobachtern (Beobachtung zweiter Ordnung) führt sie mit dem philosophischen Traktat des Soziologen und Filmtheoretikers Siegfried Kracauer über den Detektiv-Roman ein. Die Entwürfe von …
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Persona y enemigo. Fundamentos dogmáticos y consecuencias para el derecho penal
… de la observación sociológica referenciada a Niklas Luhmann.
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Neopragmatism and the Dual-Use Issue: A Topology of Visions
… The second part of the thesis then uses theory, Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory and Martin Heidegger’s work on questioning technology, to critically challenge this solution developed in the security community. The thesis concludes by identifying approaches to help deal with the dual-use …
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Discricionariedade administrativa e teoria dos sistemas: uma proposta de aproximação e revisão
… desenvolvida pela teoria dos sistemas de Niklas Luhmann por entender que suas ferramentas ampliam as condições de possibilidade de compreensão do papel da administração pública na contemporaneidade além de permitir uma sofisticada uma observação e descrição do tratamento da …
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Neopragmatism and the Dual-Use Issue: A Topology of Visions
… The second part of the thesis then uses theory, Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory and Martin Heidegger’s work on questioning technology, to critically challenge this solution developed in the security community. The thesis concludes by identifying approaches to help deal with the dual-use …
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Das Potential und Design von Universaltheorien
… emphasis is on the analysis of the design of Niklas Luhmann's System Theory. The influence of the claim to universality on the design and content of the theory is investigated, as well as the extent to which this is achieved. The next section deals with one of the most important research areas …
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Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Music, and the Amorous Subject
… to a complete system of information. Niklas Luhmanns work on love as a system of communication is put in dialogue with the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj iek to demonstrate that music plays a vital role in the construction of amorous subjectivity in Western …
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To trust or not to trust. Trust Towards Democratic Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe after the Regime Change in 1989-1990 – with a Special Focus on Hungary = Bízni vagy nem bízni? A demokratikus intézmények iránti bizalom a rendszerváltás után Kelet- és Közép-Európában – és ezen belül Magyarországon
… a „trust as a process” megközelítésre, valamint Niklas Luhmann bizalomelméletére támaszkodik, az intézményelméletek közül pedig a gazdasági, racionális döntéselméleti, valamint a kulturális, történelmi – más terminológiával „calculus approach” és „cultural approach” – elméletekre. A szerző a …
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Revisiting Habermas's colonisation thesis: towards a communicative transformation of the theory of reification
… Synthesizing the theories of Axel Honneth, Niklas Luhmann, and Talcott Parsons, this thesis is composed of several critical excurses expanding Habermas’s conceptual framework. These excurses principally involve: an in-depth treatment of the theory of the economy; a critical appraisal of …
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Thriving on sustainable development: sustainable autopoietic organisations
… question. The theoretical framework is based on Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems, emphasising his theory of organisations, contributing new knowledge on how organisations react to their environment, the consequence of a-centricity, poly-contexturality and the un- steerability of society. …
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Decision Topologies in Functionally Differentiated Societies - the cases of projects and AI -
… in response to societal volatility. Building on Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory, a theoretical repositioning of decision-making from individual action to systemic decision communication is proposed, redefining organisations as autonomous social systems constituted through decisions. The …
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Using Complexity Theory to Investigate Disciplinarity: A Historical, Theoretical, and Ethical Inquiry Into Composition's Ethical Turn
… theorists as Michel Foucault, Mark Taylor, Niklas Luhmann, and Bibb Latane. In the historical argument, I use the lens of complexity/ecology to analyze composition's ethical turn, looking at it in its emergence in the late 1980's and its maturity in the late 1990's. I pay particular …
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