Sociología de la intervención: orientación sistémica contextual

Aldo Mascareño

doi:10.5354/rmad.v0i25.15656

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Sociology of Intervention: Contextual Systemic Steering

Authors

Aldo Mascareño Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

No. 25 (2011): Evolución y Complejidad

https://doi.org/10.5354/rmad.v0i25.15656

Abstract

Functional differentiation of modern society entails autonomy and operational closure of social systems. That condition can be compensated by mechanisms of structural coupling between systems which aim to a relatively integrated societal coordination. Nonetheless, neither systemic conflicts, interventions, de-differentiations, nor systemic outcomes that affect the social environment -such as ecological risks or poverty- are unusual events in modern society. This article raises the question about the conditions under which a systemic steering of these problems is possible without exercising an authoritative intervention in social systems. The principle of a contextual systemic intervention as a pragmatic coordination of intransparencies are explained and illustrated. The function of this strategy consists in increasing the contingency of the addressee with communicative offers in the language of the system; its performance aims to deal with the diagnosed problems.