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LANGUAGE AND SYSTEMS THEORY: CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE LUHMANNIAN CONCEPTION

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Calise S. G.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2020
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vol. 52
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issue 3
207 – 221
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This paper assesses Luhmann’s conception of language as structural coupling. Luhmann treated language as a medium, but also tried to incorporate the Saussurean concept of sign. The paper will deal with three conflictive points. The first one is the erasure of all psychic reference that Luhmann performs. The second issue is Luhmann’s refusal to consider language as a system. The third point poses the question about the ontological bases of language, in comparison to those of the auto-poietic systems.
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Interaction of body and self-awareness in competitive sports

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Bodnar I.
Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review)
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2008
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vol. 18
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issue 2
131-145
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One of the recurring events when conducting life-interviews with women trainers is their confrontation with the fact that their physique does not correspond to the body-frame considered to be ideal in their respective sports disciplines. Since they can only preserve their athletic identity with the help of their physique, the course of their careers depends on the solution they find to this problem. The study presents this decision-making situation using the systems theory of Luhmann: as the environmental interaction between a neurophysiological (the body), a psychical (the identity of women trainers) and a social (sports) system. It looks upon this situation as being a communication between female athletes and competitive sports as a social system, in which observation is accorded an outstanding role. Assuming the role of an observer, female athletes see the series of movements and solutions that their trainer does not recognize. Instead of physical perfection, they develop the individual perfection of movement execution.
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SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ECONOMY IN THEORIES OF TALCOTT PARSONS, NIKLAS LUHMANN AND PIERRE BOURDIEU

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Lompart A.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2007
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issue 1(184)
51-73
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Research crossing boundaries between sociology and economics result in new subdisciplines. The most significant ones are economic sociology, institutional economics and rational choice theory. Scholars from these areas strive to justify distinctiveness of their approaches, they stress theoretical advantages of economics as a science, while sociology is regarded mainly as a field of empirical research. Contesting such an approach, the authoress focuses on theories of Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann and Pierre Bourdieu as examples of a 'sociological approach' to economic phenomena. .
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THE STRUCTURE OF NIKLAS LUHMANN'S THEORY

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Brunczel B.
Tarsadalomkutatas (Social Science Research)
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2007
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vol. 25
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issue 3
297-320
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There are more factors that make especially difficult to understand Niklas Luhmann's theory of society, e.g. its extraordinarily abstract and at the same time unusual language, some theoretical decisions that are surprising in the light of sociological tradition and the complicated interdependence between the parts of his theory. All of these can imply the danger of misinterpretation. In his paper the author endeavours to give an interpretative framework that through exploring the structure of Luhmann's theory and through revealing the efforts for theory-constitution lying behind it contributes to the elimination of these difficulties.The assumption underlying this is that the strange and un-understandable points of his theory are strange and un-understandable only separately, but if we reveal the inherent interdependences of Luhmann's theory and the inducements of its elaboration then all of them will lose these unusual characters. In fact Luhmann's theoretical efforts and theory-constituting aims are those things that in consequence of their grandiosity and radicalism are unusual in the field of social sciences; and the real key to the resolution of strangeness and un-understandability is to understand these efforts and aims. The author is going to perform this task by means of exploring five questions, i.e. analyzing (1) Luhmann's theoretical aim, (2) the circularity of his theory, (3) the abstraction levels of his theory, (4) the explanative power of his theory and (5) his theory's relation to philosophy. His paper's aim is not to defend or to criticize this theory; he will leave the questions concerning its assessment unanswered. What he would like to reach is that we leave the right questions unanswered.
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