ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces systemic relationship paradigms and structural models of systems are mutually dependent. It discusses that the social interaction in systemic contexts shows that this is precisely what occurs in market exchange and private authority relationships. The chapter identifies stages of development intermediate between tradition and developed modernity characterized by different degrees of partial differentiation of the spheres of validity and hence different types of worldview which are less and less extensive. It suggests the market economy and the capitalist enterprise. The chapter suggests that systemic restrictions on communication can exist even where it is not the case that a 'compromise between internal validity claims and external survival imperatives can achieved only at the cost of institutionalizing and internalizing value orientations not in keeping with the actual functions of the corresponding action orientations'. Pre-modern worldviews are interpretations of the world that conflate different aspects of validity in such a way as to deflect criticism arising from within a single validity sphere.
