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About: Social system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 92395 citations.


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10 Mar 2009
TL;DR: A solution consisting of two EI extensions to incorporate situatedness and adaptation to the institution and how to bring them to an organisational level is suggested.
Abstract: Similarly to institutions in human societies, an Electronic Institution (EI) provides a structured framework for a Multi-Agent System (MAS) to regulate agents' interactions. However, current EIs cannot regulate a previously existing dynamic social system and deal with its agent population behaviour changes. This paper suggests a solution consisting of two EI extensions to incorporate situatedness and adaptation to the institution. These two properties are usually present at an agent level, but this paper studies how to bring them to an organisational level. While exposing our approach, we use a traffic scenario example to illustrate its concepts.

52 citations

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Peter Beyer1
TL;DR: In this article, four forms of religion are analyzed for their likely dominance in global society, namely the collective cultural, the organized, the politicized, and the individualistic, with the conclusion that global society offers the most favorable conditions for the last three, but overall the future of religion in this society is fundamentally unpredictable for social theory.
Abstract: The perspective of globalization often treats global social reality as a single global society. The question of secularization must therefore be addressed primarily to that society and not in the first instance to a regional or cultural subunit of it. Following Dobbelaere's three-dimensional model of secularization, it is argued that world society is for the most part secularized in the dimension of laicization, but not in those of religious change or religious involvement. The three dimensions vary independently just as the corresponding Luhmannian types of social system, interaction, organization, and societal system do. The approach permits the analysis of regional differences without thereby having to put forward one or another of these as normative for the society as a whole. In this light, four forms of religion are analyzed for their likely dominance in global society, namely the collective cultural, the organized, the politicized, and the individualistic. The conclusion is that global society offers the most favorable conditions for the last three, but that overall the future of religion in this society is fundamentally unpredictable for social theory

52 citations

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TL;DR: An analysis of the concept of competence which is applicable at all levels of social organization, and describes eight elements which are components of competence, and shows how each has applicability from the perspectives of individuals and from the perspective of social systems.
Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the concept of competence which is applicable at all levels of social organization. It describes eight elements which are components of competence, and then shows how each has applicability from the perspective of individuals and from the perspective of social systems of various degrees of complexity such as families, organizations, and entire communities. Finally, the paper discusses the competence of organizations and communities as mental health systems.

52 citations

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TL;DR: An interpretation of the recent paradigmatic shift of mental health care from an asylum-based model to a community-oriented network of services is provided, based on the social systems theory of German sociologist Niklas Luhmann.
Abstract: This paper provides an interpretation, based on the social systems theory of German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, of the recent paradigmatic shift of mental health care from an asylum-based model to a community-oriented network of services. The observed shift is described as the development of psychiatry as a function system of modern society and whose operative goal has moved from the medical and social management of a lower and marginalized group to the specialized medical and psychological care of the whole population. From this theoretical viewpoint, the wider deployment of the modern social order as a functionally differentiated system may be considered to be a consistent driving force for this process; it has made asylum psychiatry overly incompatible with prevailing social values (particularly with the normative and regulative principle of inclusion of all individuals in the different functional spheres of society and with the common patterns of participation in modern function systems) and has, in turn, required the availability of psychiatric care for a growing number of individuals. After presenting this account, some major challenges for the future of mental health care provision, such as the overburdening of services or the overt exclusion of a significant group of potential users, are identified and briefly discussed.

52 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202316
202237
2021111
2020115
2019117
2018122