Vincent Lien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Lien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Lien |
| SIGNATURE | LIEN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonising Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Send): A Systems Theoretical Framework for Global Inclusivity
This paper reconceptualises Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) through the lens of Niklas Luhmann's universal theory of society (Müller and Powell 1994), particularly the concepts of structural coupling and interdependency to emphasise a decolonial perspective. While SEND has traditionally been informed by Eurocentric models of disability and education, this paper argues for an epistemological shift towards recognising the experien…
Interpenetration and the town and gown divide: A systems theoretical reading of Porterhouse Blue
This article offers a novel exploration of the relationship between 'town' and 'gown' through the theoretical lens of interpenetration within the context of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems. My analysis is interdisciplinary in character and transdisciplinary in methodology. For illustrative purposes, Tom Sharpe's fictional work, Porterhouse Blue , is analysed in a conventional fashion of literary criticism as a point of departure to adva…
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus
In this article, we report on the results of two online brainstormings that have collected over 480 and over 219 guiding distinctions of social theory, respectively. We draw on the results of these brainstormings as well as on a quantitative analysis of the Top 100 sociological groundworks as listed in the ISA Books of the XX Century ranking to identify the most influential distinctions of social theory and show that the bulk of these guiding dis…
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus
In this article, we report on the results of two online brainstormings that have collected over 480 and over 219 guiding distinctions of social theory, respectively. We draw on the results of these brainstormings as well as on a quantitative analysis of the Top 100 sociological groundworks as listed in the ISA Books of the XX Century ranking to identify the most influential distinctions of social theory and show that the bulk of these guiding dis…
Interpenetration and the town and gown divide: A systems theoretical reading of Porterhouse Blue
This article offers a novel exploration of the relationship between 'town' and 'gown' through the theoretical lens of interpenetration within the context of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems. My analysis is interdisciplinary in character and transdisciplinary in methodology. For illustrative purposes, Tom Sharpe's fictional work, Porterhouse Blue , is analysed in a conventional fashion of literary criticism as a point of departure to adva…
Decolonising Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (Send): A Systems Theoretical Framework for Global Inclusivity
This paper reconceptualises Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) through the lens of Niklas Luhmann's universal theory of society (Müller and Powell 1994), particularly the concepts of structural coupling and interdependency to emphasise a decolonial perspective. While SEND has traditionally been informed by Eurocentric models of disability and education, this paper argues for an epistemological shift towards recognising the experien…
Interpenetration and the town and gown divide: A systems theoretical reading of Porterhouse Blue
This article offers a novel exploration of the relationship between 'town' and 'gown' through the theoretical lens of interpenetration within the context of Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems. My analysis is interdisciplinary in character and transdisciplinary in methodology. For illustrative purposes, Tom Sharpe's fictional work, Porterhouse Blue , is analysed in a conventional fashion of literary criticism as a point of departure to adva…
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus
In this article, we report on the results of two online brainstormings that have collected over 480 and over 219 guiding distinctions of social theory, respectively. We draw on the results of these brainstormings as well as on a quantitative analysis of the Top 100 sociological groundworks as listed in the ISA Books of the XX Century ranking to identify the most influential distinctions of social theory and show that the bulk of these guiding dis…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (1 works) · Disability Education and Employment (1 works)