Vorbemerkung

Heidingsfelder, Markus; Lehmann, Maren

doi:10.5771/9783748911326-9

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“…At least if a functioning functional differentiation is assumed. The interdisciplinary observable consternation about the unexpected social fact of “lockdowns” is expressed, for example, by Kleve et al (2020) or Heidingsfelder and Lehmann (2020).…”

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An allergy of society: on the question of how a societal “lockdown” becomes possible

Räwel

2021

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Purpose Given the form of functional differentiation of modern society, a far-reaching coordination of functional systems as a dissolution of their heterarchical relationship to each other, as was apparently possible in the social “lockdown” during the corona pandemic, should have been extremely unlikely. The purpose of this study is to explain how this was nevertheless achieved. Design/methodology/approach From the perspective of systems theory, social action in principle does not present itself as a problem but as a solution to (latent) social problems. In the sociological analysis presented here, it is therefore precisely a matter of uncovering or pointing out those (changed) social structures in which a social “lockdown” appears as a solution. Findings The paper explains that with the emergence of social media through applications such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, a new force is establishing itself at the level of society as a system. It is one that is characterized by being highly vulnerable to moral communication. A susceptibility to morality manifests, on the one hand, through an individual differentiation of society made possible by social media – for example, in the emerging Chinese social credit system – and, on the other hand, through the specific communicative structures of the social media themselves. It is argued that social media, in the form of a moral authority with a lasting effect on society as a whole, make a significant contribution to realizing the social “lockdown.” Originality/value The originality of the paper results from the fact that the emergence of a new social phenomenon (“lockdown”) is explained.

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An allergy of society: on the question of how a societal “lockdown” becomes possible

Räwel

2021

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“…The pandemic health crisis caused by the COVID-19 as it triggered a second-order transition of crises disseminated from the structural coupling of organic systems to social and psychic systems (Heidingsfelder and Lehmann, 2021). The pandemic as a zoonotic disease likely developed in a row of crises in biodiversity influencing human organic systems.…”

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Niklas Luhmann's anti-totalitarian observation of systems

Harste

Laursen

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the philosophical roots of Luhmann's theory in relation to its anti-totalitarian elements.Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers a conceptual discussion of the critical and anti-totalitarian angle in Niklas Luhmann's system theory.FindingsThis paper finds that systems theory has a critical potential.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors' knowledge the anti-totalitarian element of Niklas Luhmann's system theory has not be discussed before the present contribution.

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