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Management And Function, Steffen Roth
Management And Function, Steffen Roth
Dr. Steffen Roth
The distinction of function systems such as the political system, the economy, science, religion, or the legal system is considered a key principle of modern societies (Bergthaller and Schinko, 2011; Brier, 2006; Jönhill, 2012; Kjaer, 2010; Leydesdorff, 2002; Luhmann, 1977; Luhmann, 1990; Luhmann, 1997; Schoeneborn, 2011; Seidl, 2005; Tsivacou, 1996; Vanderstraeten, 2005; Wetzel and Van Gorp, 2014; Wolfgang Rennison, 2007). Modern man knows how to talk business and when to avoid politics or religion in conversations; considers the buying of votes as corruption; and differentiates show trials from normal cases. Though these and similar differentiations are naturally applied by a …
Fashionable Functions: A Google Ngram View Of Trends In Functional Differentiation (1800-2000), Steffen Roth
Fashionable Functions: A Google Ngram View Of Trends In Functional Differentiation (1800-2000), Steffen Roth
Dr. Steffen Roth
Computer communication is revolutionizing modern society to the same extend as the invention of writing or the printing press have unsettled the archaic or the ancient society, respectively. In the present article, this idea will be exemplified by a demonstration of how the Google Ngram viewer – an online graphing tool which charts annual counts of words or sentences as found in the largest available corpus of digitalized books – allows for checks and challenges of familiar self-definitions of modern society. As functional differentiation is considered the central unique feature of modern societies, the hypotheses focus on the testing of …