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Membership | Editorial Board of Sociology (SAGE)
I am very pleased to announce that I shall have the honour of joining the Editorial Board of the British Sociological Association flagship journal Sociology as of January 2023.
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CFP | Luhmann Conference 2023 | Environments. Observed with social systems theory
Call for papers to the Luhmann Conference 2023 on “Environments. Observed with social systems theory” Venue: Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia Address: Don Frana Bulicá 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia Dates: 12-15 September 2023 Pre-conference dinner: 11 September 2023 Theme Commonly associated with nature or ecology, the concept of environment is foundational to social systems theory. A “system is the…
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Release | Health beyond medicine. A planetary theory extension
Abstract: In Niklas Luhmann’s vision of the modern functionally differentiated society, health presents one of the essential function systems, along with politics, law, economy, or science. While he devoted much effort to elaborating the theoretical foundations of the latter function systems, his work on the health system was relatively sparse. This research gap has been…
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Lexikonbeitrag | Funktionssystem
Roth S. (in press) Funktionssystem. In: Wirth J. and Kleve H. (Hrsg.) Lexikon des systemischen Arbeitens. Heidelberg: Carl Auer Verlag. Leseprobe: engl. function system oder functional system, franz. système fonctionnel m. → Funktionssysteme sind soziale → Systeme, die sich selbst erhalten und ausdifferenzieren (→ Autopoiesis), indem sie die Anschlussfähigkeit von → Kommunikation in einem bestimmten Erfolgsmedium…
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Membership | Executive Committee of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik
I have the honour to inform you that I have been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia. Throughout its 50 years of existence, the IUC has been particularly well-known as one of the prime venues worldwide for encounters between academics from both sides of the iron curtain. Embedded in a particularly…
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Release | Digital transformation of management and organization theories
Roth S. (2023), Digital transformation of management and organization theories. A research programme, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 451-459 [SSCI 2.700, Scopus, CABS**]. Abstract: This article draws on the groundwork by George Spencer Brown and Niklas Luhmann to outline a general framework for the digital transformation of management and organization…
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Release | Special Issue | Moral communication. Observed with social systems theory
Special Issue 51(5) of Kybernetes: Moral communication. Observed with social systems theory Guest Editors: Steffen Roth, Klaus Brønd Laursen, Gorm Harste The majority of articles published in this special issue have first been presented at the eponymous Luhmann Conference 2020. See here for the Call for Papers to the Luhmann Conference 2022 on Scientific communication…
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CFP | Luhmann Conference 2022 | Scientific communication. Observed with social system theory
Call for papers to the Luhmann Conference 2022 on “Scientific communication. Observed with social system theory” Venue: Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia Address: Don Frana Bulicá 4, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia Dates: 13-16 September 2022 Theme Science is a dynamic social system. New scientific topics and fields emerge from the system’s continuous observations of society, its environment, and science…
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Weihnachtskommentar | Die Solidarität der Ungeimpften
Die Solidarität der Ungeimpften Ein weihnachtlicher Kommentar von Steffen Roth und Heiko Kleve Ein kürzlich in der WELT veröffentlichter Beitrag von Tim Röhn räumt mit dem Mythos der Pandemie der Ungeimpften auf und zeigt, dass dieser Mythos nur zustande kommen konnte, weil all jene Corona-Infizierten, deren Impfstatus nicht erfasst wurde, automatisch der Gruppe der Ungeimpften…
