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Knowledge Visualization and Mapping of Studies on Social Systems Theory in Social Sciences: Focused on Niklas Luhmann

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2022, 56(1), pp.253~275
  • DOI : 10.4275/KSLIS.2022.56.1.253
  • Publisher : 한국문헌정보학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : January 20, 2022
  • Accepted : February 13, 2022
  • Published : February 28, 2022

Park Seong Woo 1 Hong Soram 2

1광주대학교
2전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Niklas Luhmann is one of the most contentious and difficult theorist in sociology but follow-up studies on his theory gradually increase for recent 10 years. The purpose of this study is to observe how follow-up studies use the difficult concepts of Luhmann. Unlike previous studies, this study adopted a keyword rather than an article as the unit of analysis because keywords are linguistic constructs that can make concepts observable. The study analyzed co-occurrence of keywords in 139 articles retrieved from social sciences category in Web of Science DB. The key findings were following: the most important keywords were the name of Luhmann(Niklas Luhmann) and theory(social systems); keywords were grouped into 4 clusters(social systems theory, systems theory, legal system and political system, the significant of Luhmann’s theory from the viewpoint of the history of social theory); topic terms were systems theory, communication, Autopoiesis, risk, legal system, functional differentiation, environment, social theory, sociological theory, structural coupling, systems and evolution. The significance of the study is following: the study gives keywords as useful access point for beginners of Luhmann’s theory; the study proves that content analysis by keywords network can be applied to trend analysis of difficult theoretical researches.

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