دانلود کتاب Theory of Society, Volume 2

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Content: Volume 1. Society as social system. The sociological theory of society
Preliminary remarks on methodology
Meaning
The distinction between system and environment
Society as a comprehensive social system
Operational closure and structural couplings
Cognition
Ecological problems
Complexity
World society
Demands on rationality. --
Communication media. Medium and form
Dissemination media and success media
Language
Morality and the secrets of religion
Writing
Printing
Electronic media
Dissemination media: summary
Symbolically generalized communication media, 1: function
Symbolically generalized communication media, 2: differentiation
Symbolically generalized communication media, 3: structures
Symbolically generalized communication media, 4: self-validation
Moral communication
Effects on the evolution of the societal system. --
Evolution. Creation, planning, evolution
Systems-theoretical basis
The Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution
The variation of elements
Selection through media
The restabilization of systems
Differentiation of variation, selection, and restabilization
Evolutionary advances
Technology
The evolution of ideas
The evolution of subsystems
Evolution and history
Memory. Volume 2. Differentiation. System differentiation
Forms of system differentiation
Inclusion and exclusion
Segmentary societies
Center and periphery
Stratified societies
The outdifferentiation of functional systems
Functionally differentiated society
Autonomy and structural coupling
Irritations and values
Societal consequences
Globalization and regionalization
Interaction and society
Organization and society
Protest movements --
Self-descriptions. The accessibility of society
Neither subject nor object
Self-observation and self-description
The semantics of Old Europe, 1: ontology
The semantics of Old Europe, 2: the whole and its parts
The semantics of Old Europe, 3: politics and ethics
The semantics of Old Europe, 4: the school tradition
The semantics of Old Europe, 5: from barbarism to critique
The reflection theories of functional systems
Differences in media semantics
Nature and semantics
Temporalizations
Flight into the subject
The universalization of morality
The differentiation of \"nations\"
Class society
The paradox of identity and its unfolding through differentiation
Modernization
Information and risk as descriptive formulas
The mass media and their selection of self-descriptions
Invisibilizaton: the unmarked state of the observer and how it shifts
Reflecting on autology: the sociological description of society in society
So-called postmodernity.