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Šubrt, J. (2020), "Index", The Systemic Approach in Sociology and Niklas Luhmann: Expectations, Discussions, Doubts, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 129-133. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-029-520201008

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INDEX

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Absolute spirit

, 94

Abstract systems

, 11

Action

, 29–32, 54–56

Actors

, 34, 109

Adaptation, goal attainment, integration, latent pattern maintenance (AGIL)

, 37–38

Affective social action

, 31n8

Affectivity

, 31

AGIL scheme

, 99

Alienation

, 110, 113

American Neo-classical economics

, 26

Anti-humanism

, 96

Archaic societal systems

, 72

Ascriptive action

, 31–32

Autopoiesis

, 22, 44, 46, 51–54

Behavioural system

, 38

Bergmann’s concept

, 85

Bergson’s philosophy of duration

, 58

Bertalanffy’s general theory

, 8, 9

Binary code

, 79–80

Capitalism of free competition

, 110n7

Capitalist market economy

, 22n6

Central regulatory mechanisms

, 85

Centrifugal tendencies

, 111n8

Chaos theory

, 12

Closed system

, 11

Coding

, 79

Coevolution

, 64

Cognitive area

, 56

Collectivist theories

, 16–17

Communication

, 54–56, 65, 74–75, 79–80, 107

media

, 75, 77–79

theory

, 49

Communicative action

, 18, 20, 47, 63, 76–77

Communicative media

, 78

Complexity

, 1, 50–51, 67

Conception

, 5, 41

Conflict theory

, 112

Consciousness

, 53, 58

Consummatory elements of orientation

, 36

Contemporary functionally differentiated society

, 74–92

Contemporary society

, 64, 87

Contemporary sociological theory

, 21

Contingency

, 58–61

Critical reconfigurationism

, 3

Cultural system

, 38–39, 41

Culture

, 7n5

Cumulative effects

, 106

Cybernetics

, 10, 32, 98

Dependency theory

, 12, 110

Deterministic chaos

, 12, 112

Deterministic system

, 11

Dialectics

, 95

Disenchantment

, 64

Dissipative structures

, 12

Divinatoric memory

, 63n4

Division of labour

, 68, 72, 85, 88

Domino effect

, 114

Double contingency

, 32n9, 59–60

Double interchanges

, 40

Dramaturgical approach

, 18

Dual theory

, 76

Dynamic stability

, 53

Elias’s figuration concept

, 18

Enthusiasm

, 11

Entropy

, 12

Environment(al)

complexity

, 50

system and

, 47–49

Equilibrium

, 33

theory

, 110

Evolutionary theory

, 49, 69–70, 72

Evolutionary types of societies

, 72–73

Evolutionism

, 69–70

Exchange theory

, 17, 110

Expectation structures

, 61–62

External elements of orientation

, 36

Externalisation

, 23

Fiduciary system

, 39–40

Figurations

, 23

Four-function paradigm

, 36–41

Frame of reference

, 28

Functional differentiation

, 6, 47

Functionalism

, 6, 18

Functionally differentiated society

, 73

problem understanding in contemporary

, 74–92

Global capitalist system

, 12

Grand theory

, 27

Habermas’ alternative

, 75–77

Holism

, 8, 15–25

Human coexistence

, 107

Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology

, 58

Hypercomplexity

, 89

Idealistic culture

, 7n5

Ideational culture

, 7n5

Individual microsocial units

, 103

Individual subsystems

, 38n18

Individualism

, 15–19

Institutions

, 20, 34–35

Instrumental elements of orientation

, 36

Interaction systems

, 65–66

Internal differentiation

, 35–36

Internal differentiation

, 40

Internal elements of orientation

, 36

Interpenetration

, 64

Intersubjectivity

, 58

“Irony of history”

, 113

Knowledge

, 1, 111n9

society

, 87

Kopplung–structural coupling

, 48

Labour division

development

, 72

horizontal level

, 68

Language

, 108

Latency

, 20

Latent effects

, 104–107, 113

Latent functions

, 20

Latent principles

, 113

Living systems

, 53

Luhmann, Niklas

, 43–47

Luhmann’s theory of social systems

, 47–63, 110

Macro-sociological analysis

, 3

Macrosocial level

, 19–20, 105, 107–112

Macrosocial phenomena

, 103–104

Manifest

functions

, 20

of human action

, 105–107

Market socialism

, 10n15

Marxism

, 12, 33n11, 110

Mass media

, 75, 77–78

Meaning

, 56–58

Means

, 30

Mechanical materialism

, 7

Media

, 78–79, 110

communication

, 75, 77–79

communicative

, 78

mass

, 75, 77–78

Memory

, 62–63, 63n4

Meta-reality

, 41

Methodological anti-humanism

, 63, 98–99

Methodological individualism

, 22, 42

Microsocial phenomena

, 103

Migration

, 114

Minimum society

, 34

Modern societies

, 47, 51, 88

Modernisation risks

, 88

Money

, 110, 114

Multi-centric world

, 79–81

Multiplicity

, 84–87

Myth

, 1–3

Natural character phenomena

, 113

Neo-evolutionism

, 70

Neo-functionalism

, 18, 45

Network analysis research

, 11

Nichtsystem

, 48

Objective idealism

, 94

Organic system

, 47

Organisational systems

, 66–68

Organised irresponsibility

, 88–89

Organism

, 5

Parsons, Talcott

interpretation of systems

, 33

life and work

, 25–29

theoretical reflections

, 40

theory

, 25, 33–34

Pattern variables

, 31–32

Personality system

, 39

Phenomenological sociology

, 96–97

Polycausality

, 33n11

Polycentric society

, 87

Positivism

, 6, 30

Post-modernism

, 81

Post-structuralism

, 18

Postulates of radical functionalism

, 29n6

Productive power

, 109

Psychic systems

, 47, 56, 63–65, 94

Psychological system

, 38

Purposeful-rational social action

, 31n8

Radical constructivism

, 12, 45–46, 46, 52

Rational choice theories

, 17

Real socialism

, 90n8

Real systems

, 11

Reductionist

, 68

Resonance

, 48, 83–84

Restabilisation

, 72

Rhetorical memory

, 63n4

Risk

, 73–74

Rules

, 23n8

Selection

, 71–72

Self-reference

, 51–52, 73

Self-reflection

, 115

Self-relativity

, 51–52

Self-thematisation

, 51

Semi-peripheries

, 12

Sensate culture

, 7n5

Social

change

, 35

constructivism

, 103

development

, 109

differentiation

, 6, 47, 68

dynamics

, 113

evolution

, 51, 76

facts

, 16

integration

, 33

life

, 97

memory

, 63n4

networks analysis

, 11

networks theories

, 18

occurrence

, 18–19

order

, 30

process

, 3, 115

realities

, 5, 16, 19–20, 24, 32–33

roles

, 116n15

sciences

, 109

Social experience

, 19–24

Social system

, 19, 38–40, 45–48, 62, 90, 98n22, 105–106, 112, 115–116

Luhmann’s theory of

, 47–63

Social System, The (Parsons)

, 27, 31–32, 34, 36

Societal/society

, 6, 16–17, 33, 49, 51, 68–69, 75, 116

community

, 38

evolutionary types of

, 72–73

subsystems

, 91

system

, 47, 68–69

Socio-cultural environment

, 67

Socio-cultural evolution

, 73, 84

Sociological super-theory

evolution

, 69–71

evolutionary types of societies

, 72–73

history with open future

, 69

interaction systems

, 65–66

Luhmann, Niklas

, 43–47

Luhmann’s theory of social systems

, 47–63

organisational systems

, 66–68

psychic systems

, 63–65

reception

, 93–94

societal system

, 68–69

trust and risk

, 73–74

variation, selection, and stabilisation

, 71–72

Sociological theory

, 18, 30

Sociological thinking

, 16, 63, 115

Speech communication

, 18

Spencer’s evolutionary theory

, 95

Stabilisation

, 71–72

Stratification model

, 6

Stratified society

, 72

Structural(ism)

, 18, 97

analysis

, 35

couplings

, 81–82

expectations

, 23

functionalism

, 25, 29, 29n7, 35–36, 41

structural–functional theory

, 29

Subjective meaning

, 58

Subsystems

, 11, 37, 73, 79, 86

Super-methodology

, 99

Super-theory (see also Sociological super-theory)

, 51, 99

Supervision

, 87–88, 93

Supra-individual effects

, 22, 23n7

Supra-individual systemic processes

, 107

Symbolic

generalisation

, 79

interaction

, 18

interactionism

, 18

Symbolically generalised communication media

, 75, 78

Synergetics

, 12

System(s)

, 32–35, 105

approach application at macrosocial level

, 103–117

autonomy

, 53

autopoiesis

, 75

behaviour

, 10n16

character

, 22

conceptions and thinking

, 7

differentiation

, 47

disciplines

, 9n11

and environment

, 47–49

myth

, 2

needs

, 36

systems-type social phenomena

, 20

theory

, 62, 107

thinking

, 117

Systemic processes

, 106, 112–117

on macrosocial level

, 107–112

Systems theory

, 1–2, 5–6, 15, 32, 44–45, 49–50, 103

holism and everyday social experience

, 19–24

individualism vs. holism

, 15–19

and related disciplines

, 7–13

Technological development

, 109–110

Temporal attribution

, 56

Temporalisation

, 62

Theory and society integration, dream of

, 25–42

Time

, 62–63

Traditional social action

, 31n8

Transdisciplinary super-conception

, 8

Trust

, 73–74

Turbulence

, 12

“Understanding-capable” sociology

, 26

Unit act

, 30

Unity

, 84–87

Universalism

, 31

Value

orientations

, 31, 35

patterns

, 35

value-rational social action

, 31n8

Variation

, 71–72

Voluntarism

, 16, 29

Voluntaristic theory of action

, 29

Wittgenstein’s theory of language games

, 81

World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA)

, 93