Interpenetration

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term

In systems theory, the expression is understood as the active "mutual penetration of systems with external performance requirements" for the purpose of increasing performance on both sides (cf. Westerbarkey 1995: 154). This is done by partially adopting the modes of operation of the other system. Westerbarkey uses the term to describe the relationship between politics and the media. On the one hand, the political system takes on the modes of operation of the media system, for example specific journalistic selection and design rules; on the other hand, the media system takes over the topic specifications of politics.

economy

Before the adoption of the Single European Act introducing the European single market in 1985 , the movement of goods from one national market within the European Community to another national market within the EC was regulated by market access restrictions. The penetration of a national market was determined by quotas of interpenetration . In particular by the contracts for the Coal and Steel Community , this was in the steel market is very important.

Politics and media

The interpenetration zone between politics and the media is a social system that can be separated from the functional system of politics and the functional system of the public.

Systems theory

In systems theory, interpenetration describes a structural coupling of systems that develop in mutual co-evolution , i.e. H. no system can exist without the other. There is interpenetration z. B. in the relationship between psychological and social systems. Each interpenetrating system provides its own complexity in the constitution of the other. The term was first used in 1959 by Talcott Parsons and further developed by Niklas Luhmann from 1978 .

literature

  • Talcott Parsons : "An approach to psychological theory in terms of the theory of action", in: Koch, S. (ed.) Psychology: a study of a science. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 612-71.
  • Niklas Luhmann: "Interpénétration bei Parsons", in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 7 (1978), pp. 299-302.
  • Niklas Luhmann : Social Systems . Chapter 6 "Interpenetration", pp. 286-345. ISBN 3-518-28266-2
  • Niklas Luhmann: The Society of Society . ISBN 978-3-518-28960-0
    • Vol. 1, Chapter VI. "Operative Closure and Structural Coupling," pp. 92–120
    • Vol. 2, Chapter IX. "Autonomy and Structural Coupling", pp. 776-788.
  • Jan Künzler: Interpenetration in Parsons and Luhmann, System Familie (1990) 3, pp. 157–171.
  • Joachim Westerbarkey : Journalism and the Public. Aspects of journalistic interdependence and interpenetration , in: Publizistik, 1995, pp. 152–162.
  • Anna Schriefl: Interpenetration , in: Niklas Luhmann, Social Systems. Interpret classics (Ed. By D. Horster), Berlin 2013, pp. 73–87. ISBN 978-3-05-006492-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jochen Hoffmann: Staging and Interpenetration: The Interplay of Elites from Politics and Journalism . Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13889-8 (dissertation University of Zurich).