ON STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN THE STUDY OF NICKLAS LUHMANN’S POWER-POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE

• Main Author: I. E. Mamaev
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2014-09-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: environment; system; communication; functional structuralism; framework; process
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/1472
• ISSN: 2078-8975; 2078-8983

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the theoretical and conceptual approach to the study of socio-political problems in the works of the German sociologist and political scientist N. Luhmann. In this study, the author considers the the peculiarity of the functional structuralism as a methodological reception of studying power-political problems and differenciates N. Luhmann’s structural functionalism from T. Parsons’s functional structuralism. However, the author demonstrates the specifics of the application of such methodology in the study of such phenomena as the political subsystem, the concept and mechanisms of power. The author comes to the conclusion that N. Luhmann’s theoretical and methodological bases can be used as a tool for evaluation of political processes in the modern society.