Generative Mechanisms Transforming the Social Order
This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called Morphogenic Society? This volume...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Σειρά: | Social Morphogenesis,
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Other Conceptions of Generative Mechanisms and Ours; Margaret S. Archer
- Part I. Conceptualising Mechanisms
- Chapter 2. Causal Mechanisms: Lessons from the Life Sciences; Philip Gorski
- Chapter 3. Mechanisms and Models; Some Examples from International Relations; Colin Wright
- Chapter 4. Social Mechanisms and Their Feedbacks; Pierpaolo Donati
- Part II. Venturing Morphogenetic Mechanisms
- Chapter 5. ''Mechanisms'' of the Build-Up of Information Society; Wolfgang Hofkirchner
- Chapter 6. Body Captors and Network Profiles: A Neo-Structural Note on Digitalized Social Control and Morphogenesis; Emmanuel Lazega
- Chapter 7. How Agency is Transformed in the Course of Social Transformation: Don't Forget the Double Morphogenesis; Margaret S. Archer
- Chapter 8. Turbulence and Relational Conjunctures: The Emergence of Morphogenic Environments; Andrea Maccarini
- Part III. Mechanisms and Morphostasis: Power of Life and Death
- Chapter 9. Why Don't Things Change? The Matter of Morphostasis; Douglas V. Porpora
- Chapter 10. The Modern Corporation: The Site of a Mechanism (of Global Social Change) that is Out-of-Control; Tony Lawson
- Chapter 11. Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation; Ismael Al-Amoudi and John Latsis. .
