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THE SYSTEMS THEORY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the significance of the systems theory for the analysis of social systems is discussed. It is demonstrated that despite the crisis of wholistic viewpoints in the period marked by the rule of postmodernism, the systems theory can be very important for the research of postsocialist orders, but also traditional capitalist orders. Namely, from the basic opposition in any type of system - the one between differentiation and integration - an organic need of the social system for stability or a certain degree of social order is derived. The author demonstrates numerous sources that influence the establishment of the systems theory and indicates that its application is equally present within the framework of natural as well as social sciences. Special attention is given to the thought of two great theoreticians - Parsons and Luhmann, who appear as the leading figures of the systemic mode of thought within social sciences.

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