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Society in flux : two centuries of social theory /
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 bet...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2021.
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| Colección: | Current perspectives in social theory ;
v. 37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.