Exercise 1
Go to http://www.cla.sc.edu/socy/faculty/deflem/luhmobit.htm. Read the obituary of Niklas Luhmann that appeared in "The Guardian" (London) on November 27, 1998, and answer the following questions:
a. Which sociologist did Luhmann meet at Harvard University in 1960?
b. Which famous German sociologist did Luhmann debate for most of his career?
c. Why does the author of the obituary find Luhmann's work more democratic than that of his contemporaries?
Exercise 2
Go to http://www.socresonline.org.uk/5/2/luhmann.html. Read the review of Luhmann's Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy and answer the following questions:
a. What is the basis of Luhmann's theory of relationships?
b. Where and when did the modern code of love emerge?
c. Why is interaction in intimate relationships unstable?
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