Social Sciences between the Systems

What is it about?

Global social sciences are highly unequal. Not everybody from everywhere can publish, participate in conferences and discuss findings or theories on the same level. There are structures of inequality and exclusion that can be best described using Niklas Luhmann's systems theory. Working with the concepts of inclusion and exclusion into the functional system of science, this article develops four possible ways how sociology in Ecuador could relate to global sociology.

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Why is it important?

There are very few works on the global inequality in science, especially in social sciences. While there are several theories that can explain global inequality considering power -for instance, institutionalism or dependency theory- only systems theory can explain a stage before inequality: exclusion. This could explain why some countries or even continents do hardly participate in certain sciences.

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