Function system

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Description Function systems is concept that was created by the sociologist Nicholas Luhmann (1927)

Luhmann notes that society consists of systems, as can be read in the part of this wiki that is about Nicholas Luhmann. In many systems language and communication are key parts. Motivating and expressing are key issues in these systems.

A function system simplifies this concept by creating the following: A functional subsystem is a semantic program operating in a symbolic generalized medium and oriented towards one and only distinction directrice,a binary code with asymmetric poles which makes it also a system of preference. It takes over the classical function of rhetoric: simplifying, motivating and measuring success and failure. On the basis of the extreme simplification of the code, artificially splitting the world in two, complicated semantic programs can be developed. By coupling and decoupling words with hinges of many kinds – cause and effect, logic and experience, similarity and difference, proximity and distance in time and space functional subsystems become refined resources for collective experience(By Ole Thyssen, professor, dr. phil., LPF, CBS, 2005)

Essential in this statement is that functional subsystems split the world in two. creating and deviding the society. Examples of funcional subsystems of the society are economics, politics and mass media.

References

• Thyssen, O. professor, dr. phil., LPF, CBS, (2005)LUHMANN AND WORLD SOCIETY: The Three Tempi of Globalization

Contributors

• Page created by Jan-Peter Hoste - October 24th 2012