Divine noise: Functions, disturbances, and resistances in early Mesopotamian social systems (ca. 2300-2100 BC)

该项目致力于分析公元前三千年的早期美索不达米亚社会系统，即阿卡德时期。根据社会系统理论，它们将被视为易受干扰的环境系统。研究结果将与该地区早期和晚期社会体系的研究结果进行比较。首先，介绍了前人的研究成果和存在的问题。通过引导区分，将观察到社会行为者及其环境。之后，将提出一个建议，如何通过引入可观察到的发现，将社会系统理论实现的功能等效概念用于这种社会类型的比较分析。

The project is devoted to an analysis of early Mesopotamian social systems of the 3rd Millenium BC, i.e. of the Akkadian Period. In compliance with social systems theory they will be conceived as environmental systems prone to disturbance. The findings will be compared to those of earlier and later social systems of this region. Firstly earlier research and its problems will be described. By means of guiding distinctions social actors and their environments will be observed. Afterwards a proposal will be made how the notion of functional equivalence as implemented by social systems theory may be used for a comparative analysis of this societal type by adducing observable findings.