Subsystem

From Geography

Subsystem is a part of Niklas Luhmann's theory of society. The society is divided by functionally specialised subsystems. These subsystems cannot be replaced by another subsystem. They are seperated from eachother.

Examples for subsystems are:

- Economy code: Having money / not having money program: supply and demand operation: payment medium: money, securities

- Law code: right/wrong program: laws, decrees, practice of verdiets, contracts operation: sentence, related to cases medium: text of law and contracts, interpretations

- Politics code: governement/ oppositions majority/minority program: program for legislation party program operations: decisions, votes, declarations medium: authority, legitimation, generalised approval, trust, forms of power

- Religion code: immanence/ transcendence program: myths, commandments operations: creed, confession medium: rites, prayers, oral traditions, sacred texts.

- Science code: true/false program: notions, theories, methodologies operations: proof or falsification of statements medium: publications, presentations

- Education code: satisfactory/ unsatisfactory program: training, professions, curriculum operations: assessment, exam medium: qualifications, marks, diplomas, degrees, titles