Sociological terms should form a shared vocabulary for communicating about the social world
Evidence
His objective was not to produce an esoteric language shared only by social theorists, but to develop a language which was able to manage the new ideas created by the dynamism of his new enlightenment and its unique way of observing the world. The hope was that these terms, once created, would eventually provide a common vocabulary to enable communication to take place between different understandings of the social world. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 31
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: Speaks directly to how Luhmann’s conceptual language (trust, power as symbolic media) can anchor the reader’s comparative Luhmann-Giddens-Ishiguro analysis.
Related
- Trust and Power predate Luhmann’s autopoiesis turn (similarity 0.81)
- Luhmann’s 1975 theory redefined power as communication-steering rather than personal property (similarity 0.80)
- Knowledge production operates through socially grounded language (similarity 0.79)
- Power can be analyzed as a symbolically generalized communication medium. (similarity 0.79)
- Theorizing power requires borrowing general concepts from other domains rather than defining it directly (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Sociology gains more than it loses by theorizing trust through a shared everyday vocabulary
#exemplifies(0.70) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 90