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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gregor FitziPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9783031061738ISBN 10: 303106173 Pages: 342 Publication Date: 16 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTable of contents The path to critical sociology. 4 Part I: Societal symptomatic. 13 1. The manifold crisis of complex societies. 13 1.1 Missing social legitimation. 13 1.2 Social and environmental risks of ‘crumbling late capitalism’ 21 1.3 The shifting idea of socialism.. 33 1.4 The loss of the welfare-state compromise. 46 2. The malaise of normative societal structuration. 55 2.1 Normativity beyond defensive modernity. 55 2.2 Secularism and its adversities. 62 2.3 Normative intermittency in qualitative differentiated societies. 70 3. Economic liberalism and social fragmentation. 81 3.1 Functional neutrality lost: colonising society through economic logic. 81 3.2 Increasing social fragmentation. 88 3.3 Societal self-interpretation and sociological critique. 96 Part II: Sociological diagnosis. 104 4. Evidences in structure theory. 104 4.1 Weakening social structuration. 104 4.2 Intermittent legal validity. 111 5. Troubles in action theory. 119 5.1 Participant perspective. 119 5.1.1 Beyond the hypostasis of collective action subjects. 119 5.1.2 The unsurmountable fragmentation of social action centres. 123 5.1.3 The participant logic of social action. 126 5.2 Observer perspective. 134 5.2.1 Contract-driven social action. 138 5.2.2 Consensus-driven social action. 141 5.2.3 The observer logic of social action. 144 5.3 Conclusions in action theory. 147 6. Shifting legitimacy: the theoretical issue of social validity. 153 6.1 Establishing intermittent social orders from the participant perspective. 153 6.1.1 Competing enforcement of multiple social structures. 153 6.1.2 Intermittent validity beyond lifestyle. 156 6.1.3 Creative cultural performance. 159 6.2. Establishing intermittent social orders from the observer perspective. 162 6.2.1 The ratio of social order. 162 6.2.2 Asymmetric consensus. 165 6.2.3 Conflict, power and the rule of law.. 172 6.3 Scholium 1: the micro-sociological limits of institutionalisation. 176 6.4 Scholium 2: the anthropological limits of validity. 179 6.5 Conclusions in the theory of social validity. 183 7. Consequences in structure theory. 187 7.1 Qualitative societal differentiation revisited. 187 7.2 Modernity as intermittent destructuring structuration. 191 7.3 Intermittent foundation of legal and political orders. 198 7.4 Social integration through cultural conflict 204 7.5 Institutionalised liquefaction beyond trust 210 7.6 Consensus conflicts and societal colonisation. 215 8. Conclusions in sociological diagnosis. 222 8.1 Failing social structuration as regression from legitimacy to consensus. 222 Part III: Political outcomes. 229 9. Recovering normative social structuration 9.1 Seeking social and environmental progress. 229 9.2 Transformative social action for the 21st century. 236 Bibliography. 244 Editions: 244 Literature: 244ReviewsAuthor InformationGregor Fitzi is Associated Researcher at the Centre Georg Simmel, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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