Late Modernity Trajectories towards Morphogenic Society /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Archer, Margaret S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Social Morphogenesis,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; International relations.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; International Relations.

This volume examines the reasons for intensified social change after 1980; a peaceful process of a magnitude that is historically unprecedented. It examines the kinds of novelty that have come about through morphogenesis and the elements of stability that remain because of morphostasis. It is argued...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Chapter 1. Introduction: 'Stability' or Stabilization' - on which would Morphogenic Society Depend?; Margaret S. Archer
• Chapter 2. A Speeding up of the Rate of Social Change? Power, Technology, Resistance, Globalization and the Good Society; Tony Lawson
• Chapter 3. The Emergent Social Qualities of a 'Morphogenetic' Society: Cultures, Structures, and Forms of Reflexivity; Andrea M. Maccarini
• Chapter 4. Contemporary Mechanisms of Social Change; Douglas V. Porpora
• Chapter 5. The Generative Mechanisms Re-Configuring Late Modernity; Margaret S. Archer
• Chapter 6. On the Validity of Describing 'Morphogenic Society' as a System and Justifiability of Thinking about it as a Social Formation; Wolfgang Hofkirchner
• Chapter 7. Morphogenic Society and the Structure of Social Relations; Pierpaolo Donati
• Chapter 8. Morphogenesis Unbound from the Dynamics of Multilevel Networks: A Neo-Structural Perspective; Emmanuel Lazega
• Chapter 9. Morphogenesis and Normativity: Problems the Former Creates for the Latter; Ismael Al-Amoudi
• Chapter 10. Morphogenesis and Cooperation in the International Political System; Colin Wight.