Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing Bridging the Divide 1st Edition by Nicos P Mouzelis ISBN 0511465270 9780521515856

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ISBN 10: 0511465270
ISBN 13: 9780521515856
Author: Nicos P Mouzelis

Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing Bridging the Divide 1st Table of contents:

PART I The theoretical background: the development of the agency–structure problematic
1 From Parsons’ to Giddens’ synthesis
introduction
1 parsonian functionalism: the emphasis on system/structure
2 interpretative micro-sociologies: the emphasis on agency
3 the rational-choice paradigm
4 decentring the subject i: hidden codes
5 decentring the subject ii: subjectless practices
6 decentring the subject iii: texts
7 transcending the subjectivist–objectivist divide: attempts at a post-parsonian synthesis
8 the overall abolition of boundaries
conclusion

PART II Parsonian and post-Parsonian developments
2 Parsons and the development of individual rights
1 t. h. marshall: civil, political and social rights
2 t. parsons: rights and revolutions
3 differentiation and the mechanisms of change
4 integration: balanced and unbalanced forms
conclusion

3 Evolution and democracy: Parsons and the collapse of communism
1 evolutionary universals
2 the limits of modernization from above
3 some critical remarks

4 Post-Parsonian theory I: neo-functionalism and beyond
introduction
1 the theory of action
2 the theory of culture
3 action and culture: a critical assessment
4 the theory of civil society
5 the basic dilemma in the conceptualization of civil society
conclusion

postscript: alexander’s cultural sociology
1 on the conceptualization of culture
2 the environments of action
3 cultural narratives as second-order discourses
conclusion

5 Post-Parsonian theory II: beyond the normative and the utilitarian
introduction
1 three problematic presuppositions
2 constitutive theories of action and systemic theories of differentiation
3 some critical remarks
conclusion

PART III Agency and structure: reworking some basic conceptual tools
6 Social and system integration: Lockwood, Habermas and Giddens
1 lockwood
2 habermas
3 giddens
conclusion

7 The subjectivist–objectivist divide: against transcendence
1 on the concept of social structure
2 the impasse of transcendence strategies
3 a concrete example: the reproduction of the lse as a social system
4 concluding remarks: bridging rather than transcending the divide

8 Habitus and reflexivity: restructuring Bourdieu’s theory of practice
introduction
1 dispositions, positions and interactions
2 reflexivity
3 bourdieu’s conception of the subject
4 restructuring the sdp scheme

PART IV Bridges between modern and late/postmodern theorizing
9 Modernity: a non-Eurocentric conceptualization
introduction
1 modernity: mobilization/incorporation into the centre
2 modernity: institutional differentiation
3 modernity: a non-eurocentric conceptualization
4 modernity and the west
5 variants of modernity
6 late modernity and globalization
conclusion

10 Ethical relativism: between scientism and cultural relativism
1 the golden rule perspective
2 on the self-evidence of the golden rule
3 basic assumptions and difficulties of the relativist position
4 stepping stones towards growing socio-cultural interpenetration
5 eurocentrism
conclusion

11 Cognitive relativism: between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences
1 objectivity and the issue of mediation
2 the postmodern critique of representation and empirical evidence
3 the ‘internality’ of a discipline’s subject matter
conclusion

12 Social causation: between social constructionism and critical realism
introduction
1 the harré thesis
2 giddens’ conflationist strategy
3 archer’s anti-conflationist strategy
4 articulation of agentic and structural properties
conclusion

PART V Towards a non-essentialist holism
13 Grand narratives: contextless and context-sensitive theories
1 ‘grand narratives’: context-sensitive and insensitive
2 holistic conceptual frameworks: open and closed
3 non-essentialist holism: three types of openness

14 The actor–structure dimension: anti-conflationist holism
introduction
1 structures and actors
2 on the linkages between the causal powers of actors and of structures

15 The micro–macro dimension: anti-essentialist holism
introduction
1 strong and weak types of essentialism
2 interpretative sociologies: obstacles to micro–macro bridges
3 three guidelines for bridging micro and macro approaches

16 The inter-institutional dimension: beyond economism and culturalism
1 economism
2 culturalism and the priority of the lifeworld: from marx to parsons and habermas
3 beyond economism and systemic culturalism

instead of conclusion: twelve rules for the construction of an open-ended holistic paradigm
the actor–structure dimension: anti-conflationist holism
the micro–macro dimension: anti-essentialist holism

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