Schütz, Anton (2015) Ten systems: toward a canon of function systems. Cybernetics and Human Knowing 22 (4), pp. 11-31. ISSN 0907-0877.
Abstract
There is no description of modernity without functional differentiation. The distinction of function systems such as economy, science, art, or religion, is a key to modernity. Modern science, however, applies and implies rather than studies functional differentiation without providing exact definitions of function systems or investigating how many of these systems actually exist. The present article addresses these two issues focusing on the second. Test criteria for the distinction between function systems and systems other than function systems are developed and used to decide whether family, love, morality, culture, social work, and some more, actually are function systems. Subsequently, the article presents a list of 10 function systems and their corresponding media, codes, and programs. A final section suggests that a disciplined approach to functional differentiation opens up a horizon for interfunctional comparative social research.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Functional differentiation, Niklas Luhmann, form theory, function system, interfunctional comparative social research, modernity, social systems |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Anton Schutz |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2016 13:45 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:21 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14108 |
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