Special Luhmann Conference 2024 issue of Current Sociology on the theme of “Guiding distinctions of social theory. Analogue guidelines or digital transformers?”
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Contributions:
Editorial: Steffen Roth, Steve Watson, Harry Dahms, and Arthur Atanesyan: Guiding distinctions of social theory. Analogue guidelines or digital transformers? An introduction (PDF)
- Dirk Baecker: Distinguishing Next Society
- Pedro Martín Giordano and Gaston Becerra: General Conceptions in Sociological Tensions: The Dualism of Niklas Luhmann
- Hugo Cadenas: Society/Nature: Enactive Perspectives for Social Systems Theory
- Clayton Fordahl: Primitive Social Theory: On the History of the ‘Primitive Concept’ in Sociology and its Applications under Post-Digital Modernity
- Diane Laflamme: Is Ethics a Utopia? Yes, when Moral Distinctions Impair the Ethical Aim
- Vincent Lien: Interpenetration and the Town and Gown Divide: A Systems Theoretical Reading of Porterhouse Blue
- Francisco Morales: Self/Other: Guiding Distinction for the Social Theory of the Self
- Marlene Müller-Brandeck: Privilege and Discrimination in Identity Politics: ‘Guiding Distinctions’ as a Tool for Analyzing Social Inequality
- Steffen Roth, Steve Watson, Sören Möller, Lars Clausen, Krešimir Žažar, Harry Dahms, Augusto Sales, and Vincent Lien: Guiding Distinctions of Social Theory: Results From Two Online Brainstormings and One Quantitative Analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century Corpus (PDF)
Recommended citation: Steffen Roth, Steve Watson, Harry Dahms, and Arthur Atanesyan (2025). Guiding distinctions of social theory. Special issue of Current Sociology, Vol. 73 No. 4.
