Society in flux : two centuries of social theory
Başlık:
Society in flux : two centuries of social theory
ISBN:
9781802622430
Yayın Bilgileri:
Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
©2022
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (xii, 223 pages).
Series:
Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 37
Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 37.
Genel Not:
Includes index.
Contents:
Part I. A programmatic introduction revisited (and updated) Social theory's burden: from heteronomy to Vitacide (or, how classical critical theory predicted proliferating rackets, authoritarian personalities, and administered worlds in the 21st century) / Harry F. Dahms -- Part II. Critical theory -- Chapter 1. Critical theory, the imagination, and the critique of judgment: Horkheimer's vision reconsidered / John Levi Martin -- Chapter 2. Marx, critical theory, and the treadmill of production of value: why environmental sociology needs a critique of capital / Alexander M. Stoner -- Part III. Classical theory -- Chapter 3. Emil Lederer's theory of the new middle class: historical and current relevance of a key sociological concept / Sandro Segre -- Chapter 4. Figuring the beginning: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer as founding figures of sociology / Tobias Schlechtriemen -- Part IV. Systems theory -- Chapter 5. Sociology as social system: Luhmann, enlightenment, and the gap between "facts" and "norms" / Anthony J. Knowles -- Chapter 6. Give me an operation and I will give you a system: the psychic in Luhmann's theory / Santiago Gabriel Calise.
Abstract:
The defining feature of modern society is change - it never rests or provides its members or researchers the comfort and certainty of having attained an adequate understanding of its operations, how it functions, or where it is. Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how tensions between order, process, structure and agency, and modes of analyzing them have evolved over the last two centuries. Understanding that modern society is perpetually in flux, albeit not across the board, but in different regards at different times, and in different locations or regions, this volume delves into three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory - each representing a different level of reflexivity and a particular way of approaching modern societies. The authors discuss globally known theorists such as August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Emil Lederer, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Niklas Luhmann to present perspectives, analyses, and insights that refer to and are relevant in the social world today.
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Elektronik Erişim:
Full Text Available From Emerald Social Sciences 2021 Packages
Dil:
English