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Foreword: Trends in Functional Differentiation
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Abstract Modern social sciences in imply rather than apply functional differentiation and remain preoccupied with the cross-tabling of variables associated with earlier forms of differentiation. The key variables of modernity hence remain blind spots or theoretically motivated constants of most sociology. Th... mehr
Modern social sciences in imply rather than apply functional differentiation and remain preoccupied with the cross-tabling of variables associated with earlier forms of differentiation. The key variables of modernity hence remain blind spots or theoretically motivated constants of most sociology. The problem with this conceptual gap is that social theories and sciences have always featured a trend toward the observation of trends in functional differentiation such as the secularization, politicization, mediatization, aestheticization, juridification, or, most popularly, the economization of society. These trend statements, however, inevitably call for a systematic reflection not only on the individual trends, but also on the full concept of functional differentiation. Yet, in predominantly zooming in on political and economical issues, most social theories and sciences perform rather than study an assumed political and economic bias of modern societies, thus projecting it to the future. The challenge is hence to create a broader vision of sometimes changing trends in functional differentiation, and the contributions to this special issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing may be read as pioneers in this venture.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
funktionale Differenzierung; soziale Differenzierung; soziologische Theorie; Soziologie; Luhmann, N.; Sozialforschung; Trend
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Generelle Theorien der Sozialwissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
differentiation theory; interfunctional social research; datafication; alternativelessness; noise
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 5-9
Zeitschriftentitel
Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 22 (2015) 4
ISSN
0907-0877
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung