Nicos P. Mouzelis

Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing (eBook, PDF)

Bridging the Divide

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Produktbeschreibung

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 facilitate an overall picture of how social wholes (organizations, communities, nation-states, etc.) are constituted, reproduced and transformed. They believe the rejection of holistic methodologies leads to social myopia - a refusal to explore critically the type of broad problems that classical sociology deals with. This book attempts to bridge the divide between these two conflicting perspectives and proposes a novel holistic framework which is neither reductionist/economistic nor essentialist. Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing will appeal to scholars and students of social theory and of social sciences in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511460241
• Artikelnr.: 38213928

Autorenporträt

Nicos P. Mouzelis is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Theoretical Background: The Development of the
Agency-Structure Problematic: 1. From Parsons' to Giddens' synthesis; Part
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; Postscript: Alexander's cultural sociology; 5. Post-Parsonian
theory II: beyond the normative and the utilitarian; Part 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; Part 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; Part 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; Instead of Conclusion: twelve rules for the construction of an
open-ended holistic paradigm; Appendix: In defence of 'grand' historical
sociology.