Observing Society: Meaning, Communication, and Social Systems
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Chapter Introduction:  Contemporary Social System Theory
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disciplines. Sociological investigations can stay centered on communication and reveal how society organizes variety, selects variation, and stabilizes forms of meaning. We are interested in promoting social system theory because we have found no comparable alternative for stimulating and supporting our interest in the observation of contemporary society.