The Problem of Time and Evolution from the Perspective of Systemic Sociology
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Problem of Time and Evolution from the Perspective of Systemic Sociology
Original language description
In the older conception of social evolution, the view prevailed that social development is the inevitable process of change associated with the concept of civilizational growth, social progress, humanity's increase, and so on. In one modern strand of evolutionary theory such a position is queried and abandoned. Niklas Luhmann understands social evolution as a process of socio-cultural differentiation. Increasing complexity awakens orientational uncertainty, against which pre-modern societies sought support from the past and tradition using history as their magistra vitae (teacher of life). In modern society, however, the range of possible futures cannot adequately be derived from history, and history has lost its model character. Inwardly orientated systemic history has become insufficient, and attention has shifted to the future, to social planning, which - according to Luhmann - represents an effort to"de-futurize" the future. The increasing unlikelihood of anticipating this future arises from the constantly accelerating complexity of a planless world.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Inventing the Future in Age of Contingency
ISBN
978-1-4438-5187-9
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
124-140
Number of pages of the book
230
Publisher name
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
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