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"This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems. The authors demonstrate how this theory alters our understanding of some of the most important and controversial issues within law: the nature of judicial communication and legal argument; the claim that it can be right to disobey law; the character of legal pluralism and globalisation; time and its construction within law; the significance of the rule of law and human rights and the role of appeals to, and within, law."--Back cover

A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is one of the many functionally differentiated social systems that make up modern society. All such subsystems consist entirely of communications and all are "autopoietic," which is to say, self-organizing and self-generating. Here, Luhmann explains how religi

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Biases in the Process of Designing a System -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Mesarovic and Takahara's General Systems Theory -- 1.2. Systems Engineering -- 1.3. Klir's Architecture of Systems Problem Solving -- 1.4. Van Gigch's Metamodeling -- 1.5. Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems -- 1.6. Jackson's Systems Paradigms -- 1.7. Summary of the Selected Approaches to System Design -- 2. Some Basic Notions and Some Immediate Consequences -- 2.1. Definition of Core Notions -- 2.2. Some Consequences Derived from the Definition of Core Notions -- 3. Outline of the Developed Approach to System Design -- 4. The Core Context for System Design -- 5. The Material Base for System Design -- 5.1. The Material Needs for System Design -- 5.2. The Sources of the Material Base for the System Design -- 6. The Goal-Setting Process -- 6.1. The Options for Goal-Setting -- 6.2. Contexts of Goal-Setting and Resulting Biases Influencing the Design Process -- 6.3. Goal-Setting -- 6.4. Summary: The Goal-Setting Process -- 7. The Prerequisites of System Design -- 7.1. A Priori Knowledge -- 7.2. From A Priori Knowledge to Preliminary Knowledge -- 7.3. The Preliminary Knowledge of the System Designer and Its Necessary Scope -- 8. The Core Process of Designing a System: From the Prerequisites and Goal-Values via Preliminary Knowledge to the Final Design -- 8.1. The Core Process of System Design: From Elements and Relations via Subsystems to a Complete System Design -- 8.1.1. Assumptions -- 8.1.2. Selecting Elements and Relations -- 8.1.3. Intermediate Evaluation -- 8.2. From a Complete Design to the Final Design or When Is a System Design 'Good Enough'? -- 8.3. A Byproduct: An Increase in the Preliminary Knowledge of the System Designer -- 8.4. Redesigning a System -- 8.5. Summary of the Core Design Process

One: Background -- 1: The Historical Context -- 2: Physical and Life Evolution -- 3: Social and Cognitive Evolution -- 4: The Habermas/Luhmann Debate -- 5: Habermas Since the Debate -- Two: Incorporating Human Participation into Systems Theory and Design -- 6: Differentiation Theory -- 7: Soft Systems Theory -- 8: Critical Systems Theory -- 9: Banathy -- 10: Warfield -- Three: Advances in the Areas of Social, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Theory -- 11: Luhmann (1) Meaning, Subject, and Communication -- 12: Luhmann (2) Systems and Environments -- 13: Luhmann (3) Structure and Time -- 14: Luhmann (4) Contradiction and Self-Reference -- 15: Kampis -- 16: Goertzel -- 17: Metaphors and Maps -- Four: Five Emerging Syntheses -- 18: The Practice and Ethics of Design -- 19: The Structure of the Social World -- 20: Communication -- 21: Cognition -- 22: Epistemology -- 23: Conclusion -- References.

"Persönliche Netzwerke haben in der Luhmannschen Systemtheorie bisher keinen systematischen Stellenwert. Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht diese Lücke mit einer Diskussion bisheriger Begriffsvorschläge und dann mit einer eigenen Verortung des Netzwerkbegriffs in der Systemtheorie zu schließen. Zunächst wird überprüft, inwiefern frühere konzeptionelle Vorschläge in der Systemtheorie für die Fassung persönlicher Netzwerke geeignet sind. Diskutiert werden die Dreier-Typologie sozialer Systeme (Interaktion, Organisation und Gesellschaft) nach Niklas Luhmann, der Vorschlag einer Erweiterung um den Systemtyp der Gruppe von Helmut Willke, Friedhelm Neidhardt und Hartmann Tyrell, sowie Überlegungen zu Familie und Intimsystemen von Tyrell, Luhmann und Peter Fuchs und der Begriff des Interaktionszusammenhangs nach André Kieserling. Der zweite Abschnitt nimmt die bisherigen systemtheoretischen Arbeiten zum Netzwerkbegriff in den Blick: einige Formulierungen von Luhmann selbst, die Arbeiten von Gunther Teubner, von Eckard Kämper und Johannes Schmidt, von Veronika Tacke und von Stephan Fuchs. Abschließend wird auf den vorangegangenen Überlegungen aufbauend ein eigener Begriffsvorschlag für die systemtheoretische Fassung des Netzwerkbegriffs entwickelt. Einzelne Sozialbeziehungen werden dabei im Anschluss an Luhmann als autopoietische Systeme gesehen. Diese sind in gemeinsamen Interaktionen und in der Konstruktion von Personen (als Knoten von Netzwerken) aneinander gekoppelt. Nur in Ausnahmefällen entstehen dabei symbolisch abgeschlossene Gruppen wie Familien oder Straßengangs." (Autorenreferat)

For years, systems theory has been applied successfully in all fields of technology, but its impact on the world of finance has to date been limited. This book aims to rectify this situation. Readers will no longer be able to assert that money cannot be reliably earned on the financial markets: one might just as well say that man has never set foot on the moon. The potential reader may be frightened by the number of formulas, but can be reassured that almost all of them can be skipped.

Comrad Don Quixote / Nina Witoszek -- Explaining action and explaining social phenomena / Andreas Balog -- Socio-economics and a new scientific paradign / Roger hollingsworth, Karl H. Müller, Ellen Jane Hollingsworth, David M. Bear -- Rule system theory : an overview / Tom R. Burns -- Negotiation int the context of generalized game theory / Ewa Roszkowska -- Rough rule-following by social agents / Anna Gomolińska -- On the art of being usefully wrong : lessons from voting paradoxes / Hannu Nurmi -- The stabliization of social order : social cognitive dissonance theory applied to hospitals and clinics / Nora Machado -- Dare we dream of a future without AIDS? : challenges and opportunities for responsive social science research / Beth Maina Ahlberg -- Of mind and matter : policy paradigms and institutional design / Marcus Carson -- Corporate (social) responsibility as an arena for partnered governance : from the business to the public policy case / Atlte Midttun -- The institutionalization of a meta-order : negotiating the energy charter theory / Svein S. Anderson -- Opinion polling on international political accords / Hans L. Zetterburg -- The political systems of the United States and the European Union / Alberto Martinelli -- Germany and migration : a European case / Helena Flam -- Social rule systems theory and the disintegration of Yugoslavia / Dusko Sekulic -- Could Home oeconomicus become a revolutionary? : probing the irrevelance of standard economics / Christian Arnsperger, Philippe VeVillé

This treatment provides an exposition of discrete time dynamic processes evolving over an infinite horizon. Chapter 1 reviews some mathematical results from the theory of deterministic dynamical systems, with particular emphasis on applications to economics. The theory of irreducible Markov processes, especially Markov chains, is surveyed in Chapter 2. Equilibrium and long run stability of a dynamical system in which the law of motion is subject to random perturbations is the central theme of Chapters 3-5. A unified account of relatively recent results, exploiting splitting and contractions, that have found applications in many contexts is presented in detail. Chapter 6 explains how a random dynamical system may emerge from a class of dynamic programming problems. With examples and exercises, readers are guided from basic theory to the frontier of applied mathematical research