Person als relationale Kategorie : eine beobachtertheoretische Studie zu sozialen Formen der Person und Beziehung
Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: AIM AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: Is there a correlation between individual social integration (inclusion) and embeddedness in personal networks or social relations? This general research question is concretised with the application of the social systems theory in the tradition of Niklas Luhmann with particular focus on his observer theory as well as in line with a concept of social forms (Baecker) as follows:• How does society observe and describe its individuals, • How the relationships between individuals, • How the relationship between individual and society?RESULT: THE PERSON AS A RELATIONAL CATAGORYThe central result of this dissertation is the depiction of the person as a relational category. This concept of the person as a relational category includes the theoretical examination of • Inclusion as individual addressing,• The person as a complex social form, • Reciprocity as a medium of person reproduction and relations as social forms.INCLUSION AS INDIVIDUAL ADDRESSINGAddressing is an operation of communication that generates addresses, i.e. identifiable elements such as personal names or designations, and assigns these communication contributions. These addresses are assigned characteristics that make them calculable as observers of and contributors to communication. Observer characteristics:• Mastering the concept of self-reference (being able to deal with different perspectives of observation such as external and internal, self-reflective observation)• Differentiating between information and messages (Precondition of the observation of communication as communication) Inclusion is addressing that is directed towards the individual person address that aims at individual fragments of addresses and conveys the others in an unmarked state, thereby reproducing the expectation of the individuality of the person. The accounted characteristics of the individual person address reproduced by means of addressings of inclusion are the observer characteristics of communicative addresses described above and additionally the expectation 'individuality'. The person is also the form in which psychological systems are observed as observers of communication, as a contributor and participant.THE PERSON AS A COMPLEX SOCIAL FORMBehind the concept of the person as a complex social form there is the theoretical argument that irrespective of the form of reproduction of social forms in the medium of meaning, be these a person, relationship, society, verbal interaction ... that its reproduction is always coupled with the reproduction of the forms meaning, observation, form and communication and are conveyed in the indefinite context of meaning (unwritten cross) of the form. With the person as the form, in addition to expectance/deflection these are also action/experience and attribution/situation, meaning, communication, society and reciprocity. These are conditions of the respective current person observation!RECIPROCITY AS A MEDIUM/FORM DIFFERENTIATIONAccording to Glanville and his distinction of the black box/observer constellation of reciprocity, events can only be described as the input or output of one or the other if they are assigned accordingly to the observer or the black box (or vice versa) – in a similar manner to the punctuation of communication of Watzlawick. These considerations can be transferred to addresses as communicative reproduction of forms of observation. The distinction black box/observer then becomes the distinction of observing and being observed (or addressee (receiver)/addresser (sender)): One of the central results, that communication operatively creates addresses of its own observers, can be supplemented with the reciprocity comprehension of Glanville by the statement that communicative forms of observers are reproduced during the operation of relating.Reciprocity is defined on the basis of the characteristics defined in this way as a medium of the mutual relational reproduction of observer forms. Relational forms are incorporated in this medium if this mutual reproduction if observation forms is observed as a relationship. Both sides of the form do not exist without one another; the distinction becomes relevant on both sides of the difference as a distinction. Relationship forms differentiate between two or more concrete social entities and create a relationship between these by differentiating A from B and B from A. At the same time relationship forms create and reproduce observer forms in the sense of a medium of the entities that are differentiated and related.THE PERSON AS A RELATIONAL CATAGORYThe relational reproduction of the person as a form is carried out in the medium of reciprocity • in the establishment of relationships between the individual and society in the course of including addressings,• in the establishment of relationships on a person to person level in the course of addressings of persons within relationships.
Source: RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen)
Authors: Brigitta Lökenhoff, Thomas Kron
Language: German
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W359659027