Humanismo, sociedad y sociología. Una perspectiva sistémica

Abstract

A systemic approach to the issue of the connection between sociology and humanism and its consequences for sociological observation requires an analysis that goes well beyond the framework of the pure history of the sociology to go into the broader of the structural and semantic developments of society. This is because, for the modern theory of social systems, sociology is an instance of specialized selfobservation and self-description of society, emerged in the modern phase of its evolution. Therefore first will be analyzed the relationship between the development of humanistic semantics and the structural change of society, in order to determine the tie that binds the conventional sociological observation with the modern humanism. Then, based on the results obtained with this analytical perspective, we want to clarify in what sense can be said that this link represents an obstacle to the full participation of sociology at those transdisciplinary developments (second order cybernetics and the theory of self-referential systems) of which the same theory of social systems is part.