The Military of Guatemala and Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Autopoietic Social Systems

Niklas Luhmann's theory of autopoietic social systems challenges traditional social science by dissolving the individual as an analytical category and replacing it with the functional structures of social systems. The opaque complexity of this model of thought has rendered it extremely difficul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirsch, Jochen H.Ch.
Other Authors: Political Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36693
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-42198-18206/