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• Boundary of social system
  According to the German social scientist [[Niklas Luhmann]], [[social systems]] are systems of [[communication]]. They have no fixed delimitation '''A system's structure'''
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• Boundary of social systems
  ... it even to the extreme, saying "it is at least necessary for it [a social system] to be linked to psychic systems – and what I would like to point out to Also [[Niklas Luhmann]] spoke about boundaries of the social system in his work. From his perspective, boundaries are created by the selectivit
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• Bruno Latour
  ...re also these fields of science that hold his most work (see actor network theory). ...ith Callon en Law, Latour was one of the developers of the [[actor network theory]] (Latour,1987).
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• Capitalism
  ...haracterised by not having rules or government intervention whatsoever. In theory the market will always reach a perfect equilibrium between supply and deman Founding father of todays capitalism is [[Karl Marx]] (1818-1883). His theory was about unfairly economic distinctions in society between lower class peo
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• Complexity reduction of social systems
  This ''complexity reduction'' through selection is called ''system formation''. There are different forms of complexity and also different for - Social complexity: functional differentiation of subsystems.
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• Conflictual (power) relationship
  [[Max Weber|Max Weber]] analysed social relationships into three forms of which conflict relationships are the firs ...tunities of individuals during their own lifetime, it would be considered "social selection" and if it concerns differential chances for the survival of inhe
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• Discourse (vs. Language)
  ...y, feminist studies, anthropology, ethnography, cultural studies, literary theory, and the philosophy of science. Within these fields, the notion of "discour ...f which they speak." He traces the role of discourses as language in wider social processes of legitimating and power, emphasizing the construction of curren
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• Double contingency
  ...scusses double contingency as a problem that motivates the constitution of social systems (Vanderstraeten, 2002, p.8). Luhmann is mostly interested in the po ...son to communicate and from here create social interaction. Concerning the theory of double contingency one can look at the way a relationship between two pe
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• Duality (of structure)
  ... the same time structures are maintained and reproduced only through these social practices (Lippuner & Werlen, 2009, p. 1). ...e emancipation of women, the roles of men and women were set in the social system. The man of the house was supposed to earn the money and his wife should ta
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• Edward Said
  ...is theory and help to explain his uncertain relationship with contemporary theory" (p.5) ...lonial theory is very well explained by Ashcroft and Ahluwalia (2001): The theory is focussed on investigating "the cultural and political impact of European
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• Ernst Haekel
  For this geography wiki we are interested in Haekels theory of [[Lebensraum]] which [[Friedrich Ratzel]] adopted. This concept has its ...ingle answer, because human beings and the universe are joined in one mono-system. This view is called monism (Gutenberg, n.d.).
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• Felix Guattari
  Felix Guattari met several other social philosophers and activists that shared some of his ideas. However, short af ...ly. A critique of [[Sigmund Freud]]’s psychoanalysis that focuses on its theory of the Oedipus complex.
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• Field
  ...oximity and distance” (Lippuner et al., 2009, p. 8), it’s a relational social space. ...e of their own logic of distinction, that they seem like an own autonomous social universe (Lippuner et. al., 2009). Examples of fields, which can be seen a
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• First order space
  ...l understanding of space, based on theories of [[Language Pragmatic Action Theory]] (Zierhofer, 2002). According to Zierhofer first order space in short mean ...tive categories of space. He chooses to base the categories on a gradation system of orders. This is how the term first order space was coined (ibid., p. 136
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• Genealogy
  ... total history - ([[total history vs general history]]) - of Foucault. The theory of genealogy uses many different sources and details. Where [[archaeology]] In the total system of economics labour work and agriculture are devalued. But by showing the h
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• Habitus
  ...he habitus is a product of conditionings bounds to a certain position in a social space and we can draw the conclusion that the habitus is very differentiate ...econd, it is the generative principle of symbolic practices that reproduce social structures (Lippuner & Werlen, 2009).
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• Humberto Maturana
  ...ed Alroe, 2002, pp. 41-42), understood as any human being operating from a system and in the language.) ...e field of visual perception of vertebrates and their statements about the theory of knowledge.
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• Karl Marx
  *''Writings that develop a broad theory of history (historical materialism) as a succession of modes of production, ...the material basis of their existence, by coordinating production with the social relations necessary to support it. Marx held that any mode of production is
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• Louis Althusser
  ...ot something people could be liberated from, but it’s a dimension of all social formations. For Althusser ideology is referred to the ‘representation of ...are submissive to a certain system, but at the same time the topic of that system. For example: ''Good evening ladies and gentleman, fine that you are all wa
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• Michel Foucault
  ...owledge (1972a). In the 1970’s Foucault threw himself into political and social activism and he strived for the acceptance of homosexuals and for reformati ...lf, living the philosphy he believed in. Yet his interests in politics and social activism did not totally die.
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