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| - | Society is defined by [[Luhmann]] as the one and only social system that includes all communications which refer to each other (1997a pages 78-91). Society is the totality of all social systems. Luhmann is very critical of sociological theories that equate societies with populations of nation-states. (1997a, pages 24-32.) | + | Society is defined by [[Niklas Luhmann]] as the one and only social system that includes all communications which refer to each other (1997a pages 78-91). Society is the totality of all social systems. Luhmann is very critical of sociological theories that equate societies with populations of nation-states. (1997a, pages 24-32.) |
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Society is defined by Niklas Luhmann as the one and only social system that includes all communications which refer to each other (1997a pages 78-91). Society is the totality of all social systems. Luhmann is very critical of sociological theories that equate societies with populations of nation-states. (1997a, pages 24-32.)
References
- Gren, M. & Zierhofer, W. (2003). The unity of difference: a critical appraisal of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social system in the context of corperaity and spatiality. In: Environment & Planning A. Vol. 35. pp. 615-630.
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