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Every organisation, as stolid as it may be, experiences a certain shock when a new manager or director is about to take over. Water cooler gossip increases, every advance in knowledge is used to score extra points, uncertainty fills the air. But even after the change has been completed, problems occurs, for instance when the one who is supposed to supervise »from above« has to be trained »from below«. In short: the relationship between superior and subordinate...
Every organisation, as stolid as it may be, experiences a certain shock when a new manager or director is about to take over. Water cooler gossip increases, every advance in knowledge is used to score extra points, uncertainty fills the air. But even after the change has been completed, problems occurs, for instance when the one who is supposed to supervise »from above« has to be trained »from below«. In short: the relationship between superior and subordinate is complicated.
Niklas Luhmann has scrutinised this relationship with a sociological eye and shows what strains it even more: difficulties in communication and showmanship, difficulties in finding one’s position and dissonances of moral conceptions. The shadow of the predecessor can be persistent, the influence of internal cliques can be hard to break.
And across the board, there’s the question of who actually has all the power. It is, that much is certain, not the boss per se – provided that, according to Luhmann, the subordinates master the art of steering their superiors. »Sub-servation« is key and tact the most important means to an end. But this should be exercise with caution: the one to achieve mastery in this art is often the one who becomes – the new boss.
»Theme: theory of society; duration: 30 years; costs: none« – so ran Niklas Luhman’s infamous answer at the end of the 1960s in regard to his research project. The...
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The classics of sociology had regarded the sociology of religion a vital part of social theory; also, and especially, when faced with modern society, supposedly created so far removed from...
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Under the title Art as a Social System, this book offers a series of publications that serve the elaboration of a theory of society. The entire undertaking – Theory of Society...
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In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of »love« as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies....
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