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      El concepto de memoria social como problema para la teoría de sistemas sociales Translated title: The concept of social memory as a problem for social system theory

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          El concepto de memoria social es una de las categorías que más relevancia adquirió en la producción teórica de Niklas Luhmann en los últimos años de su vida. Tal concepto se encuentra, en una buena parte, inspirado en la memory fuction descripta por el matemático inglés George Spencer Brown. La memoria social pretende dar cuenta de un rendimiento de memoria propio de la sociedad, independiente de las memorias de los sistemas psíquicos y neurofisiológicos. En este trabajo se abordará el tema críticamente, poniendo atención en la operatividad de la memoria social, para poder observar a qué preguntas responde. Además, se analizará detenidamente el tipo de apropiación que hace Luhmann de la función de oscilador y memoria tomada de Spencer Brown, evaluando la consistencia de tal decisión. También será de suma importancia estimar si el sociólogo alemán arriba a una teoría de la memoria social capaz de desprenderse de la metáfora del almacén o depósito, tal como él dice haberlo hecho al proponer esta formulación.

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          The concept of social memory is between those categories, which acquired more relevance in Niklas Luhmann’s theoretic production in the last years of his life. This concept is largely inspired in the memory function depicted by the English mathematician George Spencer Brown. Social memory tries to account for the own memory performance of society, which is independent from the memories of the psychic and neurophysiologic systems. This paper deals critically with this topic, focusing the attention on the operativity of the social memory, in order to observe to which questions it can answer. In addition, it will be carefully analyzed how Luhmann utilizes the Spencer Brown’s oscillator and memory functions, so to evaluate the consistency of Luhmann’s decision to include these concepts in his theory. It will also be of great importance to estimate if the German sociologist develops a theory of social memory with the capacity to get rid of the storage metaphor, as he expected to have done with this formulation.

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                Journal
                cmoebio
                Cinta de moebio
                Cinta moebio
                Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. (Santiago, , Chile )
                0717-554X
                December 2011
                : 42
                : 261-275
                Affiliations
                [01] Buenos Aires orgnameCONICET orgdiv1Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani Argentina
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                S0717-554X2011000300003 S0717-554X(11)00004203
                10.4067/S0717-554X2011000300003
                c729d617-252c-499a-9d19-6a72f32a1c28

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                : 17 September 2011
                : 21 June 2011
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 23, Pages: 15
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                semantic,George Spencer Brown,oscillator function,memory function,autodescripciones,semántica,función de oscilador,función memoria,self-descriptions

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