Posted in Sociology, Systems Theory on August 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Follow this link for a short video clip of an interview with Niklas Luhmann. The interview’s also on YouTube, but without English translation. Even though the interview’s from 1973, it’s fairly accessible and I think still valid as a way of gaining some perspective on Luhmann’s approach to systems theory, even in his later ‘autopoietic’ [...]
Posted in Actor-Network Theory, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I spent much of last night and early this morning reading through an interesting article by Guenther Teubner, of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. Teubner’s a professor of private law and legal sociology, and he’s written extensively on topics in contract law, corporate regulation, and international law. But he’s also developed a perspective on legal evolution and [...]
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, International and Comparative Education, Organizations, Science and Technology, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I went to a number of sessions over the last two days of the conference, but I’ll only mention a few.
1. The very last session I attended at the conference was on Cultural Sociology and Disciplinary Change, chaired by a very droll and funny Jeffrey Alexander presiding over a standing-room only crowd who came [...]
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