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Lehrende: Prof. Dr. rer. soc. Dirk Baecker
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Orga-Einheit: Graduate School | ZUGS
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Credits:
4,0
Standort:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
5 | 15
Inhalte:
The PhD course attempts to introduce into systems theory both as general theory of systems and as sociological theory of social systems. We look at control theory (W. Ross Ashby), complexity studies (Warren Weaver), autopoiesis (Humberto R. Maturana), and second-order cybernetics (Heinz von Foerster) to understand how Niklas Luhmann developed his theory of operationally closed social systems consisting of events of communication to enable contacts of the most transitory up to more durable types. Systems draw distinctions to distinguish between themselves and their environment. The produce, and reproduce as, operations. Older terminologies of parts and wholes, or else elements and relations are bygone, even if they still help to understand the newer terminology of boundaries and operations. We will look at the calculus of indications (George Spencer-Brown) to understand the "form" of distinction and we will discuss systems theory as a possible contribution to "transformative" or design research (Herbert A. Simon).
Weitere Informationen zu den Prüfungsleistungen:
Short paper
100 % attendance
Literatur:
Baecker, Dirk (2017): Systems in Social Theory, in: Monika Krause, Claudio Benzecry, and Isaac Ariail Reed (eds.), Social Theory Now, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 201–226.
Luhmann, Niklas (1995): Social Systems, transl. John Bednarz, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Simon, Herbert A. (1969): The Science of Design – Creating the Artificial, in: ders., The Sciences of the Artificial, 3. Aufl., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, S. 111–167.
Spencer-Brown, George (1969): Laws of Form, fifth, intern. ed., Leipzig: Bohmeier, 2008.
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