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Legitimation Crisis occurs when there is a discrepancy between what a society claims to be and what it actually is, eroding public trust and leading to challenges to authority.

This is Habermas' historical analysis of how the public sphere developed and its subsequent decline, emphasizing the effects of market economy and mass media on the quality of public discourse.

The colonization of the Lifeworld refers to the process where systematic, bureaucratic, and economic mechanisms invade areas of personal and cultural life, reducing the role of communicative action.

Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist born in 1929, influential in the fields of social theory, critical theory, and pragmatism. He is best known for his theories on communication, public sphere, and modernity.

Communicative Action is a concept where actors seek to reach mutual understanding and coordinate action through discourse, as opposed to strategic action aimed at individual success.

Habermas aligns with the consensus theory of truth, proposing that truth is what all participants could agree upon in an ideal speech situation, thus linking truth to social practices and understanding.

Habermas' Discourse Ethics proposes that norms should be validated through democratic processes where all affected can participate in rational discourse. It emphasizes the importance of communication and mutual understanding.

Habermas' seminal work that outlines the concept of communicative rationality, where social actors are oriented toward mutual understanding rather than success, and lays the foundation for his theory of discourse ethics.

Habermas' concept of the Public Sphere refers to an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and influence political action.

Universal Pragmatics is Habermas' study of the necessary conditions for the ideal communication situation, aiming to identify and describe the universal rules that enable understanding in dialogue.

Habermas identifies three knowledge-constitutive interests that motivate human inquiry: technical (control of physical environment), practical (understanding social world), and emancipatory (freedom from constraints).

Instrumental and strategic actions are types of social actions focused respectively on control of the physical environment and achieving personal goals, often contrasted with communicative action in Habermas' writing.

An Ideal Speech Situation is the condition under which discourse among people can supposedly take place without any distortions of power or manipulation. Habermas holds this as a necessary condition for true democracy.

The system is the objective world of institutions and structures, while the lifeworld represents the subjective world of cultural understandings and personal relationships. Habermas sees the colonization of the lifeworld by the system as problematic.

Habermas critiques functionalism, arguing that it inadequately explains social phenomena as it overly emphasizes systemic stability and underplays the role of agency and communicative practices.