Social Systems

Luhmann, N. (1995). Social Systems. Stanford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1995

DOI

10.1515/9780804786478

ISBN

9780804786478

Link

https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/social-systems

Cited from

biology_ecology, systems_cybernetics

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Autopoiesis
  • In practice, the frame helps practitioners resist inappropriately mechanical treatments of living, cognitive, and social systems (diagnosing why a top-down organizational redesign fails to stick: it didn't engage the organization's self-reproduction; why a model of cognition as stimulus-response misses the phenomenology: cognition is enactive, not reactive; why a legal-economic analysis that treats law as executing economic directives misses law's self-referential logic).

    This sourceExtends autopoiesis to social systems composed of communications: legal, economic, scientific, political, and other functional subsystems are operationally closed and structurally coupled

• Second-Order Cybernetics (Second-Order Observation)
  • In strong versions (Maturana-Varela autopoiesis, Luhmann's Social Systems 1995

    This sourceExtends autopoiesis to social systems composed of communications: legal, economic, scientific, political, and other functional subsystems are operationally closed and structurally coupled.

Domain-specific

• Social system
  • The analyst revises the system boundary and models local norms together with external resource and authority flows instead of treating outside dependence as noise.

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