A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society

Networks of communication evolve in terms of reflexive exchanges. The codification of these reflections in language, that is, at the social level, can be considered as the operating system of society. Under sociologically specifiable conditions, the discursive reconstructions can be expected to make the systems under reflection increasingly knowledge-intensive.

This sociological theory of communication is founded in a tradition that includes Giddens' (1979) structuration theory, Habermas' (1...