SOCIAL ORDER, INTERACTION AND SOCIETY IN LUHMANN. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE INTEGRATION OF SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGEAbstract
Analyses of interaction have been fundamental to debating some of the most consolidated assumptions of sociological reflection on social order. However, this complexity has been dissolved in the identification of a duality, and even an opposition, between the order of interaction and that of society. Consequently, inquiries into these social areas tend to remain dissociated, separated and disconnected. In the process, not only has the possibility of achieving a unified treatment of the problem of social order been blocked, but even worse, reductionist perspectives have inevitably taken hold. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the methodological contributions that the general theory of social systems offers to avoid these analytical risks.
Keywords Interaction; method; society; social order; general theory of social systems