The present work deals with the motif of money in contemporary German literature, taking as examples the two novels <i>Die Nacht der H??ndler</i> (1995) by Gert Heidenreich and <i>MOI</i> by Heiko Michael Hartmann (1997). This motif is investigated through an analysis based mainly on four monetary theories: Karl Marx's <i>Das Kapital</i>, Georg Simmel's <i>Philosophie des Geldes</i>, Niklas Luhmann's <i>Die Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft</i> and Jochen H??risch's <i>Kopf oder Zahl. Die Poesie des Geldes</i>. Additionally, theorists such as Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan will be included in the work. Both relatively recent narratives choose to depict money as subject to dysfunction, and by this means show the dependence of western society on the monetary system. Following Jochen H??risch's argument, this thesis shows that money is the leading medium of modern times: without it, the entire social system would collapse. Through its failure to function as expected, it becomes obvious that money (an artificial human invention) turns against its creator, since money is not only responsible for how people perceive reality but is also the determining factor for human conduct in western society. In depicting this dysfunction, both novels deal with money in its most prominent recent forms - in Heidenreich's novel, virtual money; in Hartmann's, the Euro. These new money form has a big impact on society, as the novels show. As <i>Die Nacht der H??ndler</i> demonstrates, money is nowadays the reality-generating medium, which has become congruent with the real reality (as far as it is generally perceivable). Money obscures reality; because it duplicates the world and yet remains an abstract medium, this doubling causes people to become estranged from the world, its objects and also themselves. This process culminates in the development of virtual money, which reduces everything to a binary code of zeroes and ones. The growing virtualization of other media further amplifies people's alienation. Because money is the ruling medium in our society, humanity is in the grasp of the "Midas touch," as described by Marshall McLuhan. Money encodes everything, even human conduct. According to Georg Simmel, in a monetarily-ruled society lack of character, recklessness and greediness increase, since this is what money requires. In a rationalized society one can only be successful who acts in selfish interests. The MOI-disease passed on by infected currency in Hartmann's novel is an ego-disease, because humans have become increasingly self-centered since the invention of money. Together with the new media, money causes the diminishment and brutalization of human relations, whereby the individual becomes more and more an object of money-ruled processes, as Hartmann in particular shows. Money thus destroys the subject. This thesis also shows, on the basis of the two novels, how money in modern times has come to replace the older medium of religion, as Jochen H??risch has argued. Money creates an alliance with the new electronic media, thus strengthening its reality-generating abilities. It is no longer religion that is responsible for giving meaning to our lives, but rather this new alliance. Both novels demand a return to cultural roots: Heidenreich does so by opposing the counting (<i>Zahlen/Z??hlen</i>) in modern society with the old medium of narration (<i>Erz??hlen</i>). Hartmann, on the other hand, comes to the conclusion that real knowledge can only be reached by religion and philosophy, since they show the way to one's own real self.

Depuis les années cinquante la sociologie a été concernée par le phénomène des mouvements sociaux. Diverses théories ont essayé de les expliquer. Du collective behaviour à la mobilisation des ressources, par l`entremise de processus politiques, et de la perspective de framing jusqu'à la théorie des nouveaux mouvements sociaux, la sociologie a trouvé certains moyens pour expliquer ces phénomènes. Bien que toutes ces perspectives couvrent et saisissent des facettes importantes des angles de l'action collective, ils le font de manière disparate, en regardant un côté et en omettant l'autre. Les différences entre les points de vue proviennent, d'une part, d'un changement dans les contextes sociaux, historiques et scientifiques, et d'autre part du fait que les différentes approches ne posent pas les mêmes questions, même si certaines questions se chevauchent. Poser des questions différentes amène à considérer des aspects différents. En conséquence, ce n'est pas seulement une question de donner une réponse différente à la même question, mais aussi une question de regarder le même objet d'étude, à partir d'un angle différent. Cette situation réside à la base de la première partie de ma thèse principale: le champ de la théorie des mouvements sociaux n'est pas suffisant, ni suffisamment intégré pour expliquer l'action collective et nous avons besoin d'une théorie plus complète afin d'obtenir une meilleure compréhension des mouvements et la façon dont ils remplissent leur rôle de précurseurs de changement dans la société. Par conséquent, je considère que nous avons besoin d'une théorie qui est en mesure d'examiner tous les aspects des mouvements en même temps et, en outre, est capable de regarder au-delà de la forme de l'objet d’étude afin de se concentrer sur l'objet lui-même. Cela m'amène à la deuxième partie de l'argument, qui est l'affirmation selon laquelle la théorie générale des systèmes telle que formulée par Niklas Luhmann peut contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de l'action collective. Il s'agit d'une théorie intégrale qui peut compléter le domaine de la théorie de l`action collective en nous fournissant les outils nécessaires pour rechercher dynamiquement les mouvements sociaux et de les comprendre dans le contexte social en perpétuel changement. Une analyse du mouvement environnementaliste sera utilisé pour montrer comment les outils fournis par cette théorie nous permettent de mieux comprendre non seulement les mouvements sociaux, mais également le contexte dans lequel ils fonctionnent, comment ils remplissent leur rôle, comment ils évoluent et comment ils changent aussi la société. / Since the fifties sociology has been concerned with the phenomenon of social movements. Various theories tried to explain them. From collective behaviour to resource mobilization, through political processes and framing perspective all the way to the theory of new social movements, sociology found ways to explain these phenomena. Although all these perspectives cover and capture important facets and angles of collective action, they do so in disparate ways, looking at one side and neglecting the other. The differences between the perspectives come, on the one hand, from a change in the social, historical and scientific contexts, and on the other hand from the fact that the various approaches don’t ask the same questions, even though some questions overlap. Asking different questions leads to looking at different things. Thus, it is not only a matter of giving a different answer to the same question, but also a matter of looking at the same object of study from a different angle. This situation resides at the root of the first part of my main thesis: the field of social movement theory is not sufficient nor integrated enough to explain collective action and we need a more comprehensive theory in order to obtain a better understanding of movements and the way in which they fulfill their role of promoters of change in society. Hence, I consider that we need a theory that is able to look at all facets of the movements at the same time and furthermore, is able to look beyond the form of the object in order to focus on the object itself. This brings me to the second part of the argument, which is the claim that the general systems theory as formulated by Niklas Luhmann can contribute to a better understanding of collective action. It is a comprehensive theory that can supplement the field of social movement theory by providing us with the necessary tools to look dynamically at social movements and understand them within the shifting social context. An analysis of environmentalism will be used to show how the tools provided by this communication theory help us to better understand not only social movements but also the context in which they function, how they fulfill their role, how they are changed and in turn change society as well.

Esta tese tem por objetivo estudar as barreiras à operacionalidade da multi, inter e transdisciplinaridade (tratados em conjunto pelo termo "arranjos colaborativos") em 4 Institutos Nacionais de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCTs), escolhidos a partir de seu potencial para operar arranjos transdisciplinares. Com esse intuito foi utilizado o método de estudo de caso, amparado por documentos oficiais e entrevistas semi-estruturadas, foram, também, utilizados métodos cienciométricos para a construção de determinadas categorias analíticas. O referencial teórico utilizado foi a teoria sistêmica de Niklas Luhmann. O universo da investigação foi o sistema nacional de inovação brasileiro, pois, os INCTs operam nesse contexto, acoplados a diversos sistemas funcionais: o sistema científico, o sistema educacional e o sistema político. A partir dessa estrutura, perguntou-se quais são as barreiras à operacionalidade dos arranjos colaborativos e em que medida tais barreiras afetam a produção de inovação baseada em pesquisa. Ao fim concluiu-se, no contexto do caso específico investigado, que diferentes barreiras em sinergia afetam à operacionalidade dos arranjos colaborativos, tais barreiras são reforçadas pela semântica da Academia, a semântica emergente a partir da operação das políticas científica e educacional que amparam a produção científica atual nos INCTs investigados. / The current Thesis aims to analyse the barriers to the operationality of multi, inter and transdisciplinarity (considered altogether as “collaborative arrangements”) within four National Institutes of Science and Technology (INCTs), chosen from their potencial of operating transdisciplinary arrangements. To proceed with such research, the method utilised was “Case Study”, alongside the analysis of official documents and semi-structured interviews; Scientometrics was utilized in order to stablish certain analytical categories. The theoretical reference was the german author’s Niklas Luhmann system’s theory. The investigation’s background that sustained the research was the Brazilian National Innovation System, since the INCTs operate within its boundaries, attached to a series of other functional systems, such as the scientific, educational and political. Starting from this pre-existing structure, it was deemed inquired which the barriers to operate collaborative arrangements are, and in which measures these barriers interfere with the production of research based innovation. Lastly, the current Thesis has come to the conclusion that, considering its case study, the synergy among different barriers impacts on the collaborative arrengements. These barriers are reinforced and catalysed by the Academical semantics and also by the uprising structures, all starting from the operation of scientific and political systems, which sustains the INTCs’ current scientific production.

Submitted by Fernanda Weschenfelder (fernanda.weschenfelder@uniceub.br) on 2018-05-28T18:02:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 61250260.pdf: 2701927 bytes, checksum: db9d67089d6b5667ef14734d0c317284 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Fernanda Weschenfelder (fernanda.weschenfelder@uniceub.br) on 2018-05-28T18:02:58Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 61250260.pdf: 2701927 bytes, checksum: db9d67089d6b5667ef14734d0c317284 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-28T18:02:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 61250260.pdf: 2701927 bytes, checksum: db9d67089d6b5667ef14734d0c317284 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / A pesquisa analisa o julgamento do Escândalo Político Midiático pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal - STF, sua diferenciação dos demais escândalos que se transformam em ações criminais, sob a perspectiva da teoria sistêmica de Niklas Luhmann. Estuda as irritações provocadas pelo sistema mídia na organização STF, a partir de notícias relacionadas com escândalos apreciados pela Corte, e como ela processa essas irritações. A observação procura refletir sobre as novas dinâmicas presentes nos julgamentos do STF, a partir da veiculação das sessões do Plenário pela TV-Justiça e sua inserção nas redes digitais. Observa a semântica criminal presente predominante nesse tipo de julgamento, a partir das teorias da racionalidade penal moderna e do garantismo penal. Procura compreender a forma como as comunicações do julgamento do Escândalo Político Midiático do “Mensalão” foram transformadas pelo sistema de comunicação de notícias em entretenimento (espetáculo).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mauricio Palma Resende.pdf: 1111626 bytes, checksum: 40dd782dff09615491e9d65b468e176e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-26 / This work aims to explore two directions associated with the development of the philosophy of language that leaded to dissonant conceptions of philosophy of law: in one hand, the Wittgenstein s thought on the language and the world; on the other hand, Luhmann s theory grounded on his thesis of an operational rupture regarding man and communication in autopoietic systems. Right after an explanation over both perspectives and their reflects on law, it is outlined a dialogue based on Wittgenstein with Luhmann s theory, discussion which in the end shows that the theory of functional social systems has an insufficient explanation of the corruption phenomenon in result of the thesis concerning the operational opposition man/communication, and affirms that Wittgenstein s notions such as language-games and form of life are worthy ways to struggle with this question. In conclusion, the work pictures the law as a factor based on human s language, positioning it on the mark of an analysis of its language games, which reveals cultural and historical aspects / trabalho busca explorar dois caminhos relacionados à filosofia da linguagem que conduziram a divergentes correntes da filosofia do direito: de um lado, as considerações de Wittgenstein sobre linguagem e mundo e, de outro, a teoria de Luhmann fundada na tese da separação operacional dos seres humanos da comunicação em sistemas autopoiéticos. Após a exposição do pensamento destes autores e seu reflexo no direito, é delineado um diálogo alicerçado em Wittgenstein com a teoria luhmanniana, sendo que ao final deste entende-se que a teoria da diferenciação funcional dos sistemas sociais apresenta uma explicação insuficiente do fenômeno da corrupção em decorrência da referida apartação do homem da comunicação, e afirma-se que noções wittgensteinianas como as de jogos de linguagem e forma de vida indicam um profícuo caminho para trabalhar esta questão de forma menos porosa. Em conclusão, retrata-se direito como plasmado pela linguagem humana, o que o confina à análise dos jogos de linguagem e revela suas feições culturais e históricas

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cesar Mortari Barreira.pdf: 2189963 bytes, checksum: 0c8c40553d3463d1d8cf0580081dc7fe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-15 / This Master s thesis aims to examine the contribution capacity of the autopoietic social systems theory of Niklas Luhmann for new studies both within criminal law as in the context of criminological thought. The research starts from the diagnosis that Luhmann's theory is consistently interpreted as a foundation of Günther Jakobs criminal justice system, without therewith being made any rigorous analysis about the context in which Luhmann's thinking is inserted and about the possible change of meaning that occurred in the transportation of these concepts from sociology to the criminal legal dogmatic. These analytical deficits constitute the main justification for the research hypothesis, namely the possibility that the critical potential of Luhmann's theory generally ignored can contribute to a new research agenda for the criminal legal dogmatic and to the critical criminology. For that, after analyzing the meaning given by Jakobs to Luhmann s concepts in the course of his work and presenting the main concepts of the autopoietic social systems theory and its application in the study of law, it is argued that the meaning given by Jakobs to Luhmann s concepts is arbitrary. As a result, it is understood that a rigorous understanding of the assumptions of this sociological theory can contribute to enhance critically some of Jakobs writings, opening a door for new studies in criminal legal dogmatic, while at the same time that it may enhance the studies in the context of critical criminology / Esta dissertação de mestrado tem como objetivo analisar a capacidade de contribuição da teoria dos sistemas sociais autopoiéticos de Niklas Luhmann para novos estudos tanto no âmbito do direito penal quanto no âmbito do pensamento criminológico. A pesquisa parte do diagnóstico de que a teoria de Luhmann é constantemente interpretada como fundamento do sistema jurídico-penal de Günther Jakobs, sem que com isso seja feita qualquer análise rigorosa acerca do contexto no qual se insere o pensamento de Luhmann e sobre a possível alteração de significado ocorrida no transporte desses conceitos da sociologia para a dogmática jurídico-penal. Estes déficits analíticos constituem a principal justificativa para a hipótese da pesquisa, qual seja a possibilidade de que o potencial crítico da teoria de Luhmann geralmente ignorado possa contribuir para uma nova agenda de pesquisa para a dogmática jurídico-penal e para a criminologia crítica. Para tanto, após a análise do significado dado por Jakobs aos conceitos de Luhmann no decorrer de sua obra e a apresentação dos principais conceitos da teoria dos sistemas sociais autopoiéticos e de sua aplicação no estudo do direito, argumenta-se que o significado dado por Jakobs aos conceitos de Luhmann é arbitrário. Como resultado, entende-se que a compreensão rigorosa das premissas desta teoria sociológica pode contribuir para potencializar criticamente alguns escritos de Jakobs, abrindo uma porta para novos estudos na dogmática jurídico-penal, ao mesmo tempo em que pode potencializar os estudos no âmbito da criminologia crítica

Chen Hon-fai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-261). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.iii / ABSTRACT --- p.iv / INTRODUCTION: PARSONIANISM IN CONTEXT / Chapter I. --- The Context: Parsons Revival and the Reading of Parsons --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- The Problem: Relationship between Parsons' Structural-Functionalism and Luhmann's Neo-Functionalism --- p.13 / Chapter III. --- "Interpretive Perspective: Theory, Methodology and Presupposition" --- p.31 / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- ANALYTICAL REALISM AND VOLUNTARISM: PARSONS´ة ACTION THEORY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Analytical Realism --- p.49 / Chapter 1.2 --- Action Frame of Reference --- p.62 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- EMERGENCE AND FUNCTIONALISM: PARSONS´ة SYSTEM THEORY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION --- p.90 / INTERLUDE PARSONS̐ơ THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION / Chapter I. --- From Voluntarism to Structural-Functionalism --- p.116 / Chapter II. --- From Structural-Functionalism to Systems Functionalism --- p.131 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SELF-REFERENCE AND FUNCTIONALISM: LUHMANN̐ơS SYSTEM THEORY IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.147 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Methodological Principle of Self-Reference --- p.150 / Chapter 3.3 --- Double Contingency and the Formation of Self-Referential Social System --- p.165 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- SELF-REFERENCE AND ANTI-HUMANISM: LUHMANN'S ACTION THEORY IN SOCIAL SYSTEMS / Chapter 4.1 --- Self-Reference of Communication and its Attribution to Voluntaristic Action --- p.195 / Chapter 4.2 --- Interpenetration and Anti-Humanism --- p.218 / CONCLUSION: LUHMANNIANISM ON TRIAL --- p.239 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.256

Este estudo interdisciplinar se baseia na teoria dos sistemas desenvolvida pelo sociólogo alemão Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998). Analisa-se a literatura alemã por volta de 1800 dentro de uma concepção histórica que vê neste período o ponto culminante da transformação de uma sociedade estratificada em direção a uma ordem social moderna, estruturada por sistemas diferenciados como educação, economia, direito e literatura que realizam uma determinada função e se caracterizam por suas comunicações específicas. A poética da literatura romântica como fase constitutiva da literatura alemã moderna reflete este processo. Ela descreve sua autonomia, a diferenciação de um campo próprio, inicialmente através da negação de uma finalidade. Em seguida recorre ao gênio, o indivíduo excepcional, como garantia de uma arte livre de normas estéticas e coações sociais. Posteriormente abstrai destas justificativas externas ou individuais e formula tautologicamente seu campo para, no final, marcá-lo pela definição da qualidade de seus textos. Na semântica da época, formula-se esta qualidade no conceito da “ironia”, enquanto a teoria dos sistemas usa conceitos como observação de segunda ordem ou oscilação entre o atual e potencial. Paralelamente, o sistema da literatura diferenciado e autônomo torna-se um campo a ser observado por seu ambiente. A historia literária do século XIX o instrumentaliza por fins políticos, enquanto direitos autorais e o livro como mercadoria de possível lucro lhe atribui uma dinâmica acelerada. Encontra-se na figura do autor uma instância onde se cruzam as diversas observações de sistemas como direito, economia e ciências humanas.

Part I examines the global rise of both public and private debt and its recent manifestations in the US housing bubble and the financial panic of 2007-8. A review of the most popular theories of the debt crisis is provided, including an explication of securitized banking and economic theory. The underlying condition of increasing ecological and energetic scarcity is accorded central significance in the broad trajectory of world growth and debt, Part II explicates systems theories of social order and the social significance of markets. The theories of Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, Mario Bunge, Anthony Giddens, and Jürgen Habermas are evaluated with respect to their theories of social order and crisis. A central finding is that, although declining rates of exergy production inhibit the global economic recovery as measured by conventional economic tools, this fact is not likely to be widely recognized. A central theme of Part II is how social systems handle uncertainty, risk, and to what extent complex social systems can be regulated normatively by the public sphere. As global society becomes increasingly interconnected and dependent upon the depletion of material and energy resources, the communication channels that facilitate the self-understanding of modern society at the same time proliferate, becoming increasingly disconnected and self-referential. Luhmann’s systems theory is used to explain why collective recognition and action is at once rendered more necessary and increasingly unlikely given the complexity of global society that Earth’s terrestrial stock of nonrenewable energy resources has engendered.

Crown selected youth diversion has received little academic attention in Canada. As a process that channels offenders out of the formal legal system, diversion purports to achieve contradictory self-serving system and offender-based goals. Using 50 randomly selected prosecution files – half of which the Crown diverted and half of which the Crown prosecuted – a mixed method investigation of diversion assesses cases through quantitative content analysis and grounded theory method. Based on the quantitative analysis, it is argued that there is an emerging patterned nature of Crown selected diversion that is not completely benign. This patterned nature of diversion unearths a distinctive discourse of diversion/non-diversion. Qualitatively, it is argued that the cases are organized around three temporal moments that create an area for distinctions to be made in terms of threat, responsibility, (in)tolerableness and recourse. Seemingly, there is a persistent paradoxical existence of the diversion process that emerges from the case files.