Screen LibrarySociety 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 tensio...
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Emerald Group Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Bingley, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Current perspectives in social theory,
volume 37 |
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| Summary: |
"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"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 223 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781802622423 180262242X 9781802622430 1802622438 9781802622416 1802622411 |
| Index Number: | H51 |
| CLC: | C91-09 |
| Call Number: | C91-09/S678-1 |
| Contents: |
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 twenty-first century) / Critical Theory -- Critical theory, the imagination, and the critique of judgment: Horkheimer's vision reconsidered / Marx, critical theory, and the treadmill of production of value: why environmental sociology needs a critique of capital / Classical Theory -- Emil Lederer's theory of the new middle class: historial and current relevance of a key sociological concept / Figuring the beginning: August Comte and Herbert Spencer as founding figures of sociology / Systems Theory -- Sociology as social system: Luhmann, enlightenment, and the gap between "facts" and "norms" / Give me an operation and I will give you a system: the psychic in Luhmann's theory / |