Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-05T17:17:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 27 / Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / No contexto das sociedades contemporâneas, caracterizadas por extrema complexidade e contingência, podemos observar os efeitos de uma violenta degradação ambiental, através de inúmeros eventos naturais catastróficos, como sinais de esgotamento e desequilíbrio das interdependências ecológicas, que indicam os riscos aos quais a sociedade global e o seu ambiente estão expostos, em face da imprevisibilidade do futuro. Na medida em que este panorama se acentua na comunicação social, tende a problematizar todos os âmbitos da sociedade, revelando a insuficiência do paradigma tradicional moderno, que permeando todos os âmbitos do saber assumiu contornos multifacetados e serviu de pano de fundo para as construções na sociedade moderna, cujas comunicações produzidas pelos sistemas sociais, foram responsáveis por essa degradação do ambiente ecológico, como reflexo da utilização e controle indiscriminado dos recursos naturais, da expansão agressiva do mercado econômico, assim como, da insuficiência da dogmática jurídica / In the context of the societies contemporaries, characterized for extreme complexity and contingency, we can observe the effect of a violent ambient degradation, through innumerable catastrophic natural events, as signals of exhaustion and disequilibrium of the ecological interdependences, that indicate the risks which the global society and its environment are displayed, in face of the without forecast of the future. In the measure where this panorama if accents in the social communication, she tends to problematical all the scopes of the society, disclosing the insufficiency of the modern traditional paradigm, that promenade all the scopes of knowing assumed multifaceted contours and served of cloth of deep for the constructions in the modern society, whose communications produced for the social systems, had been responsible for this degradation of the ecological environment, as reflected of the use and indiscriminate control of the natural resources, of the aggressive expansion of the economic market and t

This thesis deals with the transmission of information about hard drugs which were concealed by social system in the 70th and 80th of 20th century from perspectives of drug users. We focus on the problematics of informational sources and channels by means of the social system and the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann. We analyse, by using grounded theory, information environment which influenced the drug subculture. The data sources consist of 35 interviews with addicts who were actively taking hard drugs before 1989. The aim of this thesis is a comprehensive look at the functioning of the drug subculture, transmission of taboo information in society 70th and 80th of 20th century by the theory of social capital and social systems.

Text in German with German and English summaries / Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit erforscht Transformationsprozesse von etablierten Gemeinden, die auf eine missionale Neuausrichtung zielen. Den Kern der Arbeit bildet die empirische Untersuchung des eränderungsprozesses der Freien evangelischen Gemeinde Darmstadt. Es wird untersucht, wie die Mitglieder diesen Prozess erlebt und wahrgenommen haben, um herauszufinden, wodurch dieser Prozess gefördert und gehemmt wurde. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich außerdem mit der von Luhmann entwickelten systemischen Organisationstheorie, die dabei hilft zu verstehen, wie Gemeinde als Organisation funktioniert und was dies für deren Veränderung bedeutet. Es wird versucht die Ergebnisse der empirischen Forschung mithilfe dieser Theorie zu deuten und einzuordnen, um aufzuzeigen, inwiefern diese Theorie bei Veränderungsprozessen helfen kann, den Fokus auf die Aspekte zu lenken, die für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung relevant sind. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, Hilfestellung für zukünftige Transformationsprozesse zu geben, indem sie fragt, was aus dem Prozess der Freien evangelischen Gemeinde Darmstadt und der systemischen Organisationstheorie gelernt werden kann. / This MTh dissertation explores transformational processes of established churches, that aim towards missional renewal. Core of this thesis is the empirical study of the transformation-process of the Freie evangelische Gemeinde Darmstadt. The study explores the perception of the church members of this process, to find out ways it was supported and blocked. The thesis also deals with the theory of organized social systems by Luhmann, that helps to understand how local church works as an organization and what this means regarding change. The Thesis interprets the results of the empirical study based on this theory to show, how it can help depict those aspects, that are relevant to successfully implement transformational processes. Aim of this thesis is to give assistance to shape future transformational processes by asking what can be learned from the developments of the Freie evangelische Gemeinde Darmstadt and the theory of organized social systems. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)