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| - | According to The Oxford Dictionary, '''society''' is ´the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community´ (2011). In [[Niklas Luhmann]]´s systems theory, society plays an important role. A basic assumption of Luhmann is that a society can never be observed in its totality. Therefore there is a lack of overview and it is hard to direct societies in a coordinated way (Arnoldi, 2001, p. 2). | + | According to The Oxford Dictionary, '''society''' is ´the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community´ (2011). The definition used by Knox and Marston (2007, p.511) is more detailed: the sum of the inventions, institutions, and relationships created and reproduced by human beings across particular places and times. |
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| + | In [[Niklas Luhmann]]´s systems theory, society plays an important role. A basic assumption of Luhmann is that a society can never be observed in its totality. Therefore there is a lack of overview and it is hard to direct societies in a coordinated way (Arnoldi, 2001, p. 2). | ||
Luhmann distinguishes three analysis levels that are appicable on society. The highest level is only systems. The second level consists of machines, [[organisms]], [[social systems]], and [[psychic systems]]. The lowest level is a part of the social systems; it consists of interactions, organizations, and societies Gren & Zierhofer, 2002, p. 6). | Luhmann distinguishes three analysis levels that are appicable on society. The highest level is only systems. The second level consists of machines, [[organisms]], [[social systems]], and [[psychic systems]]. The lowest level is a part of the social systems; it consists of interactions, organizations, and societies Gren & Zierhofer, 2002, p. 6). | ||
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Revision as of 10:47, 19 September 2012
According to The Oxford Dictionary, society is ´the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community´ (2011). The definition used by Knox and Marston (2007, p.511) is more detailed: the sum of the inventions, institutions, and relationships created and reproduced by human beings across particular places and times.
In Niklas Luhmann´s systems theory, society plays an important role. A basic assumption of Luhmann is that a society can never be observed in its totality. Therefore there is a lack of overview and it is hard to direct societies in a coordinated way (Arnoldi, 2001, p. 2).
Luhmann distinguishes three analysis levels that are appicable on society. The highest level is only systems. The second level consists of machines, organisms, social systems, and psychic systems. The lowest level is a part of the social systems; it consists of interactions, organizations, and societies Gren & Zierhofer, 2002, p. 6).
References
Arnoldi, J. (2001). Niklas Luhmann. An introduction. In: Theory, Culture & Society. Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-13.
Gren, M. & Zierhofer. W. (2002). The unity of difference. A critical appraisal of Niklas Luhmann´s theory of social systems in the context of corporeality and spatiality. Nijmegen: University of Nijmegen.
Oxford Dictionary. (2011). Definitions of society. Retrieved on 17 October 2011, on [1]
Knox, P.L & Marston, S.A. (2007). Places and regions in global context: human geography. 4th edition, Prentice Hall: New Jersey
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