2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Basic Research for Practical Applications of Functionalistic Social Systems Theories

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22730387
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Niigata University
Principal Investigator	MITANI Takeshi 新潟大学, 人文社会・教育科学系, 特任助教 (40452065)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2011
Keywords	社会学 / 理論社会学 / 社会システム / 機能主義 / ルーマン
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to construct a basic scheme for theoretical understanding of the ideal contributions which sociology should make to its object : societies, by clarifying the long neglected normative-theoretic aspect of functionalistic social systems theory of German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. As a result, this study found out that especially his early works such as Theorie der Verwaltungswissenschaft(Theory of Public Administration) contains an important problem-setting of the "bridging between normative and empirical studies," and that this is consistently meaningful starting-point for Luhmann's later works.

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