Escalating complexity and fragmentation of mental health service systems: the role of recovery as a form of moral communication

Weaver, Nicholas

doi:10.1108/k-11-2020-0782

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“…As such, a social system emerges via its communication and creates meaning (Luhmann, 1995, p. 60; Weaver, 2021). Meaning is seen as a surplus of references to other possibilities and, referring to Bateson, as a difference that makes a difference.…”

Section: Morality As Embedded In Luhmann's Social Systems Theorymentioning

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Relational positionism: a constructive interpretation of morality in Luhmann's social systems theory

Bombaerts

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this article is to summarize three Luhmannian critiques on morality, illustrate new roles for morality and add constructive interpretations.Design/methodology/approach Luhmann has recently been described as downright negative toward morality, resulting in a refusal to use ethics as a sociologist, thus leading to a limited use of his theory in moral issues. A constructive interpretation could support a more functional use of morality in social system theory.Findings First, Luhmann signals that morality can no longer fulfill its integrative function in society but also that society has recourse to moral sensitivity. Second, Luhmann describes how anxiety is crucial in modern morality and indicates which role risk and danger could play. The author builds further on this and proposes the concept of “social system attention” that can provide answers to individual and organizational anxiety. The author proposes that institutionalized socialization can support an integrative morality. Third, Luhmann states that ethics today is nothing more than a utopia but also that the interdiction of moral self-exemption is an essential element. The author adds that a relational ontology for social systems theory can avoid ethics as utopia.Practical implicationsThis article is a programmatic plea to further elaborate morality from a system theory perspective in which meaning is relationally positioned.Originality/value This article could potentially provide a more functional application of morality in social systems, thus leading to improvements of attempts of ethical decision-making. The originality of the approach lies in the interpretation of basic assumptions of Luhmann social system theory that are not core to his theory.

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Section: Morality As Embedded In Luhmann's Social Systems Theorymentioning

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Relational positionism: a constructive interpretation of morality in Luhmann's social systems theory

Bombaerts

2023

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“…Escalating complexity and fragmentation of mental health service systems: the role of recovery as a form of moral communication by Weaver (2021) contributes with an empirical study of the mental health service in Wales. Through this analysis, Weaver shows how the Moral communication and social systems theory word "recovery" not simply designates the return of a patient to the world outside healthcare.…”

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Moral communication observed with social systems theory. An introduction

Laursen

Harste

Roth

2022

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PurposeThe present article pertains to recent advances in social systems theoretical analyses of moral communication.Design/methodology/approachAn introduction to basic concepts and requirements for systems-theoretical approaches to morality and communication is provided, as is an introduction to 14 contributions to a pertinent special issue of Kybernetes.FindingsThe review of these 14 cases suggests that social systems theory enables researchers to study moral communication without necessarily performing it.Originality/valueThis article reappraises and challenges Niklas Luhmann's occasionally distanced attitude to morality, which has occasionally been understood as a form of moral communication itself.

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“…To the individual person, this ecosystem would then appear as a multifunctional decision-making infrastructure rather than an institutional cage without exit option. Though the function systems of modern society do feature an expansionist drift and claim for total inclusion of every individual person (Teubner, 2021;Verschraegen, 2011;Weaver, 2021Weaver, , 2022, the universal organized access to the function systems via procedures such as health treatments or universal suffrage typically remains an option rather than obligation in a liberal society. This lack of an imperative for total inclusion precisely is the difference between a liberal society of organizations and an organized society of any kind.…”

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Toward a theory of multifunctional liberalism: Systems‐theoretical reflections on the nature of statehood

Roth

Valentinov

2022

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As neoliberalism is sinking into disrepute, states are responding to current crises by inroads on basic rights. This constellation adds urgency to the timeworn subject of statehood and its relationship to law and liberty. The paper addresses this subject by enhancing the neoliberal concept of an encased economy with James Coleman's concept of law as indicator of social change and Niklas Luhmann's functional differentiation. The resulting multifunctional liberalism associates liberties and rights with the autonomy of function systems—such as politics, economy or law—and envisions an ecosystem of multifunctional organizations able to navigate the full spectrum of functional differentiation.

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Escalating complexity and fragmentation of mental health service systems: the role of recovery as a form of moral communication

Cited by 6 publications

References 44 publications

Relational positionism: a constructive interpretation of morality in Luhmann's social systems theory

Relational positionism: a constructive interpretation of morality in Luhmann's social systems theory

Moral communication observed with social systems theory. An introduction

Toward a theory of multifunctional liberalism: Systems‐theoretical reflections on the nature of statehood

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