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Networks of communication evolve in terms of reflexive exchanges. The codification of these reflections in language, that is, at the social level, can be considered as the operating system of society. Under sociologically specifiable conditions, the discursive reconstructions can be expected to make the systems under reflection increasingly knowledge-intensive.
This sociological theory of communication is founded in a tradition that includes Giddens' (1979) structuration theory, Habermas' (1981) theory of communicative action, and Luhmann's (1984) proposal to consider social systems as self-organizing. The study also elaborates on Shannon's (1948) mathematical theory of communication for the formalization and operationalization of the non-linear dynamics.
The development of scientific communications can be studied using citation analysis. The exchange media at the interfaces of knowledge production provide us with the evolutionary model of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. The construction of the European Information Society can then be analyzed in terms of interacting networks of communication. The issues of sustainable development and the expectation of social change are discussed in relation to the possibility of a general theory of communication.
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Loet Leydesdorff (Ph.D. sociology, M.A. philosophy, and M.Sc. biochemistry) is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication Studies of the University of Amsterdam. He has published in the philosophy of science, social network analysis, scientometrics, and the sociology of innovation. His studies of communication in science, technology, and innovation enabled him to specify theory and methods for understanding the dynamics of knowledge-based development.
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operational coupling, expected information content, probabilistic entropy, reflexive layer, reflexive analyst, social communication system, sociological systems theory, reflexive communication, reflexive reconstruction, anticipatory systems, social network system, reflexive actors, geometrical metaphor, substantive specification, new recombinations, reflexive systems, transmitting system, reflexive discourses, sending system, distributed mode, communicative competencies, structurally coupled, observable variation, sociological reflections, evolutionary achievement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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operational coupling, expected information content, probabilistic entropy, reflexive layer, reflexive analyst, social communication system, sociological systems theory, reflexive communication, reflexive reconstruction, anticipatory systems, social network system, reflexive actors, geometrical metaphor, substantive specification, new recombinations, reflexive systems, transmitting system, reflexive discourses, sending system, distributed mode, communicative competencies, structurally coupled, observable variation, sociological reflections, evolutionary achievement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell on page 306, page 308, and Back Matter
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- Das Kapital, Gateway Edition (Skeptical Reader) by Karl Marx on page 181, and Back Matter
- The Social System by Talcott Parsons on page 56, and Back Matter
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