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The Theory of Social Pulsation

by Ivo Komsic (Author)
©2017 Monographs VI, 144 Pages

Summary

The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences’ standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals, social groups, and social facts (organizations, institutions, systems). As an active state of social actors, pulsation is defined by eight variables that constitute social phenomena as a whole: (a) intention, (b) reaction, (c) reflection, (d) communication, (e) institutionalization, (f) internalization, (g) structuration, and (h) innovation.
Ivo Komsic argues that social states are pulsating and within those states, social causality is transferred from one social actor to another. Social actors continuously transfer social causality from one to another, depending on the intensity of its pulsation. Balanced or unbalanced, functional or dysfunctional, consensual or imposed, a system will be classified in the presence or absence of one of these phenomena, by its greater or lesser intensity. The theory posits a new paradigm that tends to overcome the "eternal" problem in sociology—relations between individuals as social actors and social structure, that is, "social statics" and "social dynamics," the role of the great historical personalities and the "objective law of history," freedom and necessity in social action, micro and macro social levels.
The model of social communication analyzed in the book can be used as a general model of social and political communication, particularly in multiethnic and multicultural societies considering the contemporary state of affairs globally.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Proposition I
  • Explanation
  • Remark
  • Proposition II
  • Explanation
  • Remark
  • Proposition III
  • Explanation
  • Remark
  • Proposition IV
  • Explanation
  • Remark I
  • Remark II
  • Proposition V
  • Explanation
  • Remark I
  • Remark II
  • Remark III
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Afterword: Nijaz Ibrulj, Phenomenology of Anomalous Causality
  • Introduction
  • A Sociological Tractatus Philosophicus
  • Social Structure vs. Social Actors
  • Implicit Ontology of Social Facticity
  • Unstable/Empirical Axioms
  • The Anomalous Character of Social Causation
  • The Dialectic Character of Social Inferentialism
  • Connectionism of Social Facticity
  • The Rationalization of the Anomalous Nature of Social Facticity
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Index
  • Series index

Ivo Komsic

The Theory of
Social Pulsation

Edited by Jelena Gakovic
Translated by Predrag Rogan

About the author

Ivo Komsic is a renowned sociologist, philosopher and prominent political figure in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He currently serves as the mayor of Sarajevo and is a full professor in the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He is the author of six books with two translated in English: The Survived Country (2013) and Social Power of the Mind (2013).

About the book

The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences’ standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals, social groups, and social facts (organizations, institutions, systems). As an active state of social actors, pulsation is defined by eight variables that constitute social phenomena as a whole: (a) intention, (b) reaction, (c) reflection, (d) communication, (e) institutionalization, (f) internalization, (g) structuration, and (h) innovation.

Ivo Komsic argues that social states are pulsating and within those states, social causality is transferred from one social actor to another. Social actors continuously transfer social causality from one to another, depending on the intensity of its pulsation. Balanced or unbalanced, functional or dysfunctional, consensual or imposed, a system will be classified in the presence or absence of one of these phenomena, by its greater or lesser intensity. The theory posits a new paradigm that tends to overcome the “eternal” problem in sociology—relations between individuals as social actors and social structure, that is, “social statics” and “social dynamics,” the role of the great historical personalities and the “objective law of history,” freedom and necessity in social action, micro and macro social levels.

The model of social communication analyzed in the book can be used as a general model of social and political communication, particularly in multiethnic and multicultural societies considering the contemporary state of affairs globally.

This eBook can be cited

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

Details

Pages
VI, 144
Year
2017
ISBN (PDF)
9781433137044
ISBN (ePUB)
9781433137051
ISBN (MOBI)
9781433137068
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433137037
DOI
10.3726/b10833
Language
English
Publication date
2017 (May)
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2017. VI, 144 pp., 3 fig.

Biographical notes

Ivo Komsic (Author)

Ivo Komsic is a renowned sociologist, philosopher and prominent political figure in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He currently serves as the mayor of Sarajevo and is a full professor in the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He is the author of six books with two translated in English: The Survived Country (2013) and Social Power of the Mind (2013).

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