Modern and postmodern social theorizing bridging the divide
"There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists criticize postmodern approaches for their rejection of holistic conceptual frameworks which facil...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38400583*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. The theoretical background : the development of the agency-structure problematic
- 1. From Parsons' to Giddens' synthesis
- pt. II. Parsonian and post-Parsonian developments
- 2. Parsons and the development of individual rights
- 3. Evolution and democracy : Parsons and the collapse of communism
- 4. Post-Parsonian theory I : neo-functionalism and beyond
- 5. Post-Parsonian theory II : beyond the normative and the utilitarian
- pt. III. Agency and structure : reworking some basic conceptual tools
- 6. Social and system integration : Lockwood, Habermas and Giddens
- 7. The subjectivist-objectivist divide : against transcendence
- 8. Habitus and reflexivity : restructuring Bourdieu's theory of practice
- pt. IV. Bridges between modern and late/postmodern theorizing
- 9. Modernity : a non-Eurocentric conceptualization
- 10. Ethical relativism : between scientism and cultural relativism
- 11. Cognitive relativism : between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences
- 12. Social causation : between social constructionism and critical realism
- pt. V. Towards a non-essentialist holism
- 13. Grand narratives : contextless and context-sensitive theories
- 14. The actor-structure dimension : anti-conflationist holism
- 15. The micro-macro dimension : anti-essentialist holism
- 16. The inter-institutional dimension : beyond economism and culturalism
- App. In defence of 'grand' historical sociology.
