Journal Articles
Commentary: Environment, Behaviour and Communication: The Definitive Answer or the Continuation of a Crisis?
The attempt to create general theory in social sciences is not new. Reductionism is one of the main problems in this process. Here I analyze the relationship between human, environment, and culture, based on Luhmann’s systems theory and its implications for modern psychology as discussed in Thommen and Wettstein’s (2010) critique of the field. Distinguishing three types of system (biotic, psychic, and social) that function autonomously is not sufficient—what is needed is to clarify on what level any particular analysis should be done. The problem of reconstruction of the past is considered from the point of view that ‘the past’ does not exist as an objective material category and that the only way to perceive it is through sign-based reconstructions of events that have taken place.
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