The Theory of Social Pulsation

Ivo Komsic

The Theory of
Social Pulsation

Edited by Jelena Gakovic
Translated by Predrag Rogan

PETER LANG

New York • Bern • Frankfurt • Berlin
Brussels • Vienna • Oxford • Warsaw

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Komšić, Ivo, author. | Gakovic, Jelena, editor.

Title: The theory of social pulsation / written by Ivo Komsic;

edited by Jelena Gakovic; translated by Predrag Rogan.

Other titles: Teorija socijalne pulsacije. English

Description: 1st Edition. | New York: Peter Lang, [2017].

Series: History and philosophy of science: heresy, crossroads, and intersections; vol. 4

ISSN 2376-6336 (print) | ISSN 2376-6344 (online)

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017001598 | ISBN 978-1-4331-3703-7 (hardcover: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4331-3704-4 (ebook pdf) | ISBN 978-1-4331-3705-1 (epub)

ISBN 978-1-4331-3706-8 (mobi)

Subjects: LSCH: Sociology.

Classification: LCC HM585 .K6613 2017 | DDC 301—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017001598

DOI 10.3726/b10833

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Originally published in Croatian language by Sarajevo Publishing (2015)
under the title Teorija socijalne pulsacije © Ivo Komsic

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About the author

Ivo Komsic is a renowned sociologist, philosopher and prominent political figure in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He currently serves as the mayor of Sarajevo and is a full professor in the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He is the author of six books with two translated in English: The Survived Country (2013) and Social Power of the Mind (2013).

About the book

The Theory of Social Pulsation is a new social theory elaborated from the social phenomenology and philosophy of sciences’ standpoint. It represents an innovative interpretation of social phenomena postulated as active states of social actors including individuals, social groups, and social facts (organizations, institutions, systems). As an active state of social actors, pulsation is defined by eight variables that constitute social phenomena as a whole: (a) intention, (b) reaction, (c) reflection, (d) communication, (e) institutionalization, (f) internalization, (g) structuration, and (h) innovation.

Ivo Komsic argues that social states are pulsating and within those states, social causality is transferred from one social actor to another. Social actors continuously transfer social causality from one to another, depending on the intensity of its pulsation. Balanced or unbalanced, functional or dysfunctional, consensual or imposed, a system will be classified in the presence or absence of one of these phenomena, by its greater or lesser intensity. The theory posits a new paradigm that tends to overcome the “eternal” problem in sociology—relations between individuals as social actors and social structure, that is, “social statics” and “social dynamics,” the role of the great historical personalities and the “objective law of history,” freedom and necessity in social action, micro and macro social levels.

The model of social communication analyzed in the book can be used as a general model of social and political communication, particularly in multiethnic and multicultural societies considering the contemporary state of affairs globally.

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contents

Introduction

Proposition  I

Explanation

Remark

Proposition  II

Explanation

Remark

Proposition  III

Explanation

Remark

Proposition  IV

Explanation

Remark I

Remark II←v | vi→

Proposition  V

Explanation

Remark I

Remark II

Remark III