Theoretical Logic Sociology. Vol. 2
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
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Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520044814 |
Volume 2.
Author | : Kenneth Tucker |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1998-09-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857022873 |
Anthony Giddens is widely recognized as one of the most important sociologists of the post-war period. This is the first full-length work to examine Giddens′ social theory. It guides the reader through Giddens′ early attempt to overcome the duality of structure and agency. He saw this duality as a major failing of social theories of modernity. His attempt to resolve the problem can be regarded as the key to the development of his brandmark `structuration theory′. The book is the most complete and thorough assessment of Giddens′ work currently available. It incorporates insights from many different perspectives into his theory of structuration, his work on the formation of cultural identities and the fate of the nation-state. This far-reaching work also touches on issues such as the transformation of modern intimacy and sexuality, and the fate of politics in late modern society.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1669 |
Release | : 2021-03-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317807057 |
This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520030626 |
Author | : Niklas Luhmann |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2013-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804787271 |
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing press, and electronic media, as well as "success media," such as money, power, truth, and love, all of which structure this fluidity and make communication possible. The book asks what gives rise to functionally differentiated social systems, how they evolve, and how social movements, organizations, and patterns of interaction emerge. The advent of the computer and its networks, which triggered potentially far-reaching processes of restructuring, receives particular attention. A concluding chapter on the semantics of modern society's self-description bids farewell to the outdated theoretical approaches of "old Europe"—that is, to ontological, holistic, ethical, and critical interpretations of society—and argues that concepts such as "the nation," "the subject," and "postmodernity" are vastly overrated. In their stead, "society"—long considered a suspicious term by sociologists, one open to all kinds of reification—is defined in purely operational terms. It is the always uncertain answer to the question of what comes next in all areas of communication.
Author | : Jonathan H. Turner |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 731 |
Release | : 2006-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0387362746 |
This wide-ranging handbook presents in-depth discussions on the array of subspecialties that comprise the field of sociological theory. Prominent theorists working in a variety of traditions discuss methodologies and strategies; the cultural turn in sociological theorizing; interaction processes; theorizing from the systemic and macro level; new directions in evolutionary theorizing; power, conflict, and change; and theorizing from assumptions of rationality.
Author | : Bryan S. Turner |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1119250749 |
A comprehensive new collection covering the principal traditions and critical contemporary issues of social theory. Builds on the success of The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, second edition with substantial revisions, entirely new contributions, and a fresh editorial direction Explores contemporary areas such as actor network theory, social constructionism, human rights and cosmopolitanism Includes chapters on demography, science and technology studies, and genetics and social theory Emphasizes key areas of sociology which have had an important impact in shaping the discipline as a whole
Author | : Juergen Habermas |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1985-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780807014011 |
Juergen Habermas opens Volume 2 with a brilliant reinterpretation of Mead and Durkheim and then develops his own approach to society, combining two hitherto competing paradigms, "system" and "lifeworld." The strength of this combination is then demonstrated in a detailed critique of Parsons's theory of social systems. Concluding with a critical reconstruction of the Weberan and Marxian treatment of modernity and its discontents, Habermas sets a new agenda for the critical theory of contemporary society. The combination of historical and theoretical sweep, analytical acumen and synthetic power, imagination and engagement mark this as one of the great works of twentieth-century social theory.
Author | : Jeffrey Alexander |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317808614 |
In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.