Sense (sociology)

According to sociologist Niklas Luhmann, the phenomenon of meaning appears in the form of a surplus of to other possibilities of experience and action. Something is in focus, in the center of intention, and the other is marginally indicated as the horizon of the present and successive experience and action. Everything that is attempted in this way is kept open to the world as a whole and, consequently, guarantees the present of the world in the form of accessibility. Remission itself is updated as a view of reality, but it not only includes the real (the supposedly real), but also the possible (the conditioned real) and the negative (the unreal, the impossible). The totality of referrals that arise from the meaning-giving object puts more de facto possibilities at hand than can be done in the next move. Consequently, the form of meaning obliges in the next step to the selection, due to its structure of remission. The meaning endows to the experience or the action that are realized in the present, of redundant possibilities. This will compensate, in turn, the insecurity of the selection. According to Professor Thomas Austin, the word sense leads us to the search for the set of meanings with which we assume objective / conscious and subjective / unconscious knowledge of something. Finding "meaning" to something means that there has been a qualitative change in the mind, that has been found or glimpsed or perceived a new perspective of something; is an intuitive perception that allows to integrate certain information that one has been receiving in a new form or structure. To understand, to make sense of something, is a change in the mind first, but it becomes a change of behavior afterwards, because the person adjusts his way of behaving to the new sense that has been constructed in the mind. But it is a most provocative change because, once it has been "understood", it becomes the new certainty, in the normal sense, in "what is", and this new understanding is able to tolerate different interpretations , from different perspectives and sometimes diverse.

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