Abstract
At present, a civilization scale of change is occuring in advanced industrial society. Having realized 'Affluent Society, ' we are now confronted with such fluctuations that are not managed by the conceptions of structure and function. It's cause lies in the fact that a mechanism of meaning has began to be independent of and attack them.
Necessity now is to construct a social theory which positions the concept of meaning as a key word. For this, I think, it is necessary to deconstruct the conventional functionalist reason and theorize, based on this, the mechanism of meaning and communication. In this paper, I try to approach this theme, refering to Habermas's theory of communicative action, from a viewpoint of self-organization theory, and explore a frontier of post-modern social theory.
My main claim is following : the necessary conditions that civilization of meaning rises are to part from nostalgia for consensus formation and social integration, to breed a spirit of enduring with differences, and to institutionalize the system of meaning formation through editting social differences.
