... form of communication that has the potentially corrupting power to transform modern society. Jörg Räwel can be contacted at: joerg.raewel@gmail.com Communications technologies Sociology Social networks Systems theory Social change Evolution To avoid any misunderstanding...

...Jan Winczorek Purpose The links between moral communication and legal communication have long been studied in sociology of law. Little has yet been said about moral communication invoking when communication in the legal system is impossible, ineffective or uncertain. The paper fills this gap...

... and Devil, it recreates a sociological point of observation on contemporary moral forms by a temporary occupation of the retired Christian Devil. Design/methodology/approach The article combines a Luhmannian systems theoretical perspective on the evolution of societal differentiation with a concept...

... be contacted at: ahiguchi@fukuoka-u.ac.jp 28 11 2020 01 06 2021 07 07 2021 08 07 2021 09 07 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Moral Sociology Communication Systems theory This research...

... of a historical communication concept into, and sociological application of, ecological communication in the context of climate change mitigation. Jacob A. Miller can be contacted at: tree11@ksu.edu 14 11 2020 15 01 2021 07 03 2021 12 03 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021...

... intensified and citizens started to accumulate their food supplies. Social systems Sociology It is barely disputable that the coronavirus pandemic is one the most significant events in the past few years on a global scale, implying enormous effects on all social subsystems, i.e. all domains...

... between both systems of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach This essay proposes a conceptual model – a tool, in Kuhn’s terms – grounded on the sociology of knowledge (Berger and Luckmann, 1967; Schütz, 1951), to frame the apprehension of reality from a social perspective, and the philosophical...

...-orientated systems leads the four modes of coexistence. These show certain behavioral characteristics. Searching for these characteristics in selected behavioral descriptions in organizational theory, sociology, political science and system science allows relating them to certain modes. Findings...

...Yi Lin; Yi Lin; Bailey Forrest Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reveal the mechanism underlying three fascinating problems that have been investigated by many first class scholars in sociology throughout history. Design/methodology/approach The thinking logic and figurative method...

...Paul A. Stokes Purpose This paper seeks to argue that sociology is in need of reconstruction on a theoretical and conceptual foundation of cybernetics, specifically, managerial cybernetics and to show how this hitherto unsuccessful task might be brought about. Design/methodology/approach...

..., and this is affected by incoherence and pathology. Sociology Psychology Cybernetics Sociocybernetics This paper is in part a “think‐piece” development of the notion of sociohistory by Yolles and Frieden (2005) and Frieden et al. (2005) . It explores this theory of sociohistory...

... with orientation theory, can serve as an integrative theoretical framework for so far separate theoretical approaches. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Sociocybernetics Psychology Sociology Happiness, as something everybody is striving for and which hardly anybody apparently reaches...

... of the consciousness; Weber who described the effects of bureaucratization as an iron cage; and Marx who discussed alienation as a comprehensive structural concept. Findings In light of what they saw as the key concept for the frustrations, each of the fathers of sociology had a view of how the malaise...

... between political system and social movements. Originality/value The paper offers an innovative systems perspective on world wars with a special focus on the cold war which promises to overcome the difficulties which their analysis with traditional sociological theories at present encounters. ©...

...Angela Espinosa; Paul A. Stokes Purpose To establish the concept of identity as the bridging concept of cybernetics and sociology. Design/methodology/approach The approach is a pincers movement. On the one hand, it is argued that there has been a move towards an identity society; identity...

... of Requisite Variety informs the diagnosis. Also used are Beer's viable systems model, Maturana's structural coupling and Stokes sociological thinking on identity which encompasses the nature of identity, levels of identity, organisation of identity. Findings Whilst in Sri Lanka's conflict resolution...

... of a knowledge field, and are not changed unless phenomena which they satisfy or obey, are changed into phenomena of an entirely different type, i.e. that the phenomenon undergoes a metamorphosis. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Cybernetics Philosophy Sociology The systemic...

...Pablo Navarro Approaches Pask’s conversation theory from a sociological perspective. Pask’s vision of conversation as a self‐organising process can help our understanding of the emergence of social order out of social interaction. Through conversation, human beings would be able to construct...

...Vessela Misheva The theory of autopoietic social systems (Luhmann) is used as an explanatory framework for such historico‐sociological puzzles as the origins of social crisis, totalitarianism, the appearance of the crowd, the mass extermination of internal enemies (scapegoats), and the modern...

...Felix Geyer Summarizes some of the important concepts and developments in cybernetics and general systems theory, especially during the last two decades. Shows how they can indeed be a challenge to sociological thinking. Cybernetics is used here as an umbrella term for a great variety of related...