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[[alternative]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis
No full text[[abstract]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis
Abstract
This thesis aims to study Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems and its educational implications. The first chapter explores major problems and predicament in the study of education. It also points out contributions of Luhmann to educational studies. The second chapter traces sources of Luhmann’s theory of intellectual traditions. The third chapter then explicates the structure of Luhmann’s theory with an analysis of important ideas and concepts implicated in his works.These ideas and concepts include , for example , system , complexity , meaning , function , communication , self-reference and others. The fourth chapter discusses how Luhmann has reflected on current educational systems on the basis of his own theory. In particular,Chapter Five takes up Luhmann’s discussion in Reflexionsprobleme im Erziehungssystem. The last chapter , in conclusion , reviews major themes of this research , identifies the difficulties thus encountered, and suggests possible directions for future studies.
Briefe aus der Verbannung / Tristia. Epistulae ex Ponto : Lateinisch - Deutsch /
No full textIm Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Im Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed May 26, 2011
Scandal on campus. Dietrich Schwanitz reads Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory
No full textNiklas Luhmann (1927–1998) is one of the most distinguished sociologists of the twentieth cen-tury and the author of systems theory, which to a great extent has been accommodated into lin-guistics. Dietrich Schwanitz (1940–2004), an anglicist, is one of the most interesting interpreters of Luhmann on the basis of literary studies. Schwanitz is also known as a writer and author of the novel Campus (Der Campus, 1995). The main character, a sociologist, Hanno Hackmann, is wrongly accused of the sexual harassment and rape of a student. His reckless romance is exploited by various people in the university milieu to achieve their own goals. In fact, these people are, however, only the representatives of various social systems, especially politics and the media. Striving for re-election, the university rector needs this matter for his campaign, and the media are only interested in a scandalous story to be exploited for some time. Social communication does not reflect reality, and, at the same time, can be described as based on the “reduction of complexi-ty” (“Komplexitätsreduktion”). This is one of the most important concepts in Niklas Luhmann’s work. It turns out that systems theory provides the specific key to interpret the novel
The Abstract Robot Simulator Manual
No full textRobot Simulator Manual Version 1.0 Sean P. Engelson Niklas Bertani YALEU/DCS/TR-XXX October 1992 This work was partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, contract number DAAA15-87-K-0001, administered by the Ballistic Research Laboratory. The first author is supported by a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Ars Magna The Abstract Robot Simulator Manual Version 1.0 Sean P. Engelson Niklas Bertani 0 This work was partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, contract number DAAA15-87-K-0001, administered by the Ballistic Research Laboratory. The first author is supported by a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Abstract AI planning research has historically operated in formal abstractions of the real world. This approach was useful in discovering many fundamental issues underlying planning; also, problems in simple domains such as the blocks world can turn out to be surprisingly difficult. Late..
Cross-Topic Author Identification -- a Case Study on Swedish Literature
No full textUsing material from the Swedish Literature Bank, we investigate whether common methods of author identification using word frequencies and part of speech frequencies are sensitive to differences in topic. The results show that this is the case, thereby casting doubt on much previous work in author identification. This sets the stage for a broader future study, comparing other methods and generalising the results
Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts
No full textSupplementary material of the paper Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts.
The paper can be found on arXiv: arXiv:2308.12059
Please cite as:
@Article{deckers:2023b,
author = {Niklas Deckers and Julia Peters and Martin Potthast},
title = {Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/2308.12059},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12059},
month = aug,
year = 2023
Niklas Luhmann, Crisis y Renovación en la Teoría Social del Siglo XX
No full textThe purpose of this article is to give a brief introduction to Luhmann's thought, focusing on the changes of the 20th century positions and analyzing basic concepts of the author. Likewise, to review that Niklas Luhmann's social theory adopts a new way of understanding a society that has become more complex in the stage of modernity/postmodernity, in which for the author, the classical theory does not have the explanatory elements for such phenomena. Luhmann's theory is closely linked to the epistemological changes of the second half of the 20th century and the advances in science and technology.El presente artículo tiene como objetivo dar una breve introducción al pensamiento de Luhmann, enfocándose en los cambios de las posturas del siglo XX y analizando conceptos básicos del autor. Así misml, revisar que la teoría social de Niklas Luhmann adopta una nueva forma de comprender a una sociedad que se ha complejizado en la etapa de la modernidad/posmodernidad, en la cual para el autor, la teoría clásica no tiene los elementos explicativos para dichos fenómenos. La teoría de Luhmann está muy ligada a los cambios epistemológicos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y los avances en las ciencias, tecnología
Chrysis scutata
No full text3. Chrysis scutata (without author) This taxon was reported by Kawall (1866b: 155) from Livonia, Puze. The origin of the name is unknown and it should be considered as a nomen nudum.Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/493043
Niklas Luhmanns Systemtheorie und das Fernsehen
No full textIn einem Aufsatz von Hans-Jürgen Benedict wird ein Witz mitgeteilt, der vor einigen Jahren im Ruhrgebiet sehr beliebt gewesen sein soll. Dieser Witz lautet: "Oma war nicht allein, als sie starb. Der Fernseher lief." Fragt man nach der prinzipiellen Möglichkeit und der möglichen Gestalt einer Theorie vom Fernsehen, so lassen sich an diesem Witz die Startbedingungen einer solchen Theorie demonstrieren. Blendet man die Ebene des zynischen Bezugs auf die Lebenswirklichkeit vieler älterer Menschen einmal aus, so läuft dieser Witz über die Entgegensetzung von gelingender und anschlußloser Kommunikation. In seiner Pointe ist das Bewußtsein kristallisiert, daß Medien-"Kommunikation" in Wahrheit keine sei, zumindest keine solche, die mit zwischenmenschlicher irgend sich vergleichen ließe. (...) EnglischAttempting to understand the medium "television" theoretically the author rejects all respective theories (among others, those made by Adorno and Enzensberger). Referring to the theory of the socio~ogist Niklas Luhmann he evolves the thesis that television has repercussions on the evolutionary effects which created television and intensifies them in turn. He considers it more important to "know" about basic conditions of human life and their interdependencies than to "understand" complex facts, which is demanded by N. Postman. To give basic information is only one task among many others which television has to accomplish. To explain interdependencies, however, is declared to be the leading principle.
Niklas Luhmann on Contingency and Law. The Theory Behind Systems Theory
No full textAbstractThe text which is at the centre of the discussion in this paper was one of the many manuscripts on which Niklas Luhmann worked concurrently until 1972, and which he left incomplete. This fragment has now (2013) been published posthumously in Germany (in German) as a book in an edited version. While the reasons as to why Luhmann never completed the text remain unclear, studying it now with hindsight reveals Luhmann’s work on contingency theory as a direct conduit from legal theory to systems theory while circumnavigating sociological theory. With an international audience in mind, this author has tried to introduce this eye-opening historical document in a particularly careful way which pays tribute to Niklas Luhmann’s original, perhaps peculiar, language and terminology. At the same time, this paper attempts to preserve the meaning of the original text by suggestions as to how that text could be understood in an English translation. There is some urgency for making the message of this particular piece of Luhmann’s work widely known because it appears to have an important, perhaps even crucial, place in the genetic history of Luhmann’s ideas and in his generative grammar of systems theory.</jats:p
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