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  title info:
    title: Introduction to systems theory
  name:
    name part: Luhmann, Niklas
    name part: 1927-1998
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Baecker, Dirk.
  name:
    name part: Gilgen, Peter
    name part: 1963-
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 284 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Niklas Luhmann ranks as one of the most important sociologists and social theorists of the twentieth century. Through his many books he developed a highly original form of systems theory that has been hugely influential in a wide variety of disciplines.In Introduction to Systems Theory, Luhmann explains the key ideas of general and sociological systems theory and supplies a wealth of examples to illustrate his approach. The book offers a wide range of concepts and theorems that can be applied to politics and the economy, religion and science, art and education, organization and the family. Moreover, Luhmann's ideas address important contemporary issues in such diverse fields as cognitive science, ecology and the study of social movements.This book provides all the necessary resources for readers to work through the foundations of systems theory. No other work by Luhmann is as clear and accessible as this. There is also much here that will be of great interest to more advanced scholars and practitioners in sociology and the social sciences.
  table of contents: Translators note and acknowledgments -- System-autopoiesis-form: an introduction to Luhmann's 'Introduction to Systems Theory' -- Editor's preface to the German edition -- I. Sociology and systems theory. 1. The functionalism of system maintenance -- 2. Parsons -- II. General systems theory. 1. The theory of open systems -- 2. System as difference (formal analysis) -- 3. Operational closure -- 4. Self-organization, autopoiesis -- 5. Structural coupling -- 6. Observing -- 7. Re-entry -- 8. Complexity -- 9. The idea of rationality -- III. Time -- IV. Meaning -- V. Psychic and social systems. 1. Problems of "action theory" -- 2. Two modes of operation of autopoiesis -- VI. Communication as a self-observing operation -- VII. Double contingency, structure, conflict -- Suggested Further Readings.
  note: Niklas Luhmann ; edited by Dirk Baecker ; translated by Peter Gilgen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social systems
  subject:
    topic: System theory
  classification: HM701 .L8413 2013
  classification: 301
  identifier: 9780745645711 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0745645712 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0745645720 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780745645728 (pbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: UKM
    record creation date: 100722
    record change date: 20151203092821.0
    record identifier: in00002861304