Medium as a basic concept of sociology: Contributions from systems theory

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Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 539-560

  Tosini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication; Functional differentiation; Medium of language; Medium of meaning; Operative closure; Symbolically generalized communication media; Teleonomic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750294203     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018406069589     Document Type: Article

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