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Luhmann’s Predecessors and His Theory of Society

Yıl 2023, , 11 - 16, 01.03.2023
https://doi.org/10.5152/JSSI.2023.22108295

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Niklas Luhmann is one of the most important social scientists of the last century. He wrote a great many and high-quality works that stimulated social research. Despite this, Luhmann has not received the recognition he deserves in Turkey. The following article is an attempt to present Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. For this, his predecessors are first introduced; these are Thomas Hobbes, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Talcott Parsons. Then, Luhmann’s model of society in the triangle of system, environment, and communication media is discussed. It is shown that Luhmann conceptually departed from the idea of culture, values, norms, and the individual. Instead of them, he let the system guide him as an independent entity. Instead of them, he proposes the function of symbolically generalized communication media for the stability of society. By society, Luhmann does not mean the concrete society but the semantics of this society, that is, the society as an object of the social sciences.

Luhmann’s Predecessors and His Theory of Society

Yıl 2023, , 11 - 16, 01.03.2023
https://doi.org/10.5152/JSSI.2023.22108295

Öz

Niklas Luhmann is one of the most important social scientists of the last century. He wrote a great many and high-quality works that stimulated social research. Despite this, Luhmann has not received the recognition he deserves in Turkey. The following article is an attempt to present Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. For this, his predecessors are first introduced; these are Thomas Hobbes, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Talcott Parsons. Then, Luhmann’s model of society in the triangle of system, environment, and communication media is discussed. It is shown that Luhmann conceptually departed from the idea of culture, values, norms, and the individual. Instead of them, he let the system guide him as an independent entity. Instead of them, he proposes the function of symbolically generalized communication media for the stability of society. By society, Luhmann does not mean the concrete society but the semantics of this society, that is, the society as an object of the social sciences.

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Ali Demir Bu kişi benim 0000-0002-7955-0085

Yayımlanma Tarihi 1 Mart 2023
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2023

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APA Demir, A. (2023). Luhmann’s Predecessors and His Theory of Society. Current Perspectives in Social Sciences, 27(1), 11-16. https://doi.org/10.5152/JSSI.2023.22108295

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