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  title info:
    title: Mediations of social life in the 21st century
  name:
    name part: Dahms, Harry F.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Bingley, U.K
    publisher: Emerald
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 269 p.)
  abstract: Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy and links between all of the above. In the twenty-first century, the speed at which these transformations have been occurring has accelerated precipitously, and it is impossible to predict what human civilization will look and exist like in a few decades. The essays included in this volume illuminate mediations of the individual-society relationship from a variety of angles, both explicitly and implicitly. They highlight the need to consider the consequences of choices made by collective decision-makers, politicians and leaders of organizations; as well as from processes that sustain the functioning and stability of individual nation-states and global society, for better or worse, and to varying degrees. They represent diverse traditions of social theorizing, including sociological and critical theory, analytically as well as normatively oriented theory, and examine the impact of transformations on several dimensions of societal life today.
  table of contents: Experience, problems of scale, and the aesthetics of perception / Lawrence Hazelrigg -- Digital fairground : the virtualization of health, illness, and the experience of "becoming a patient" as a problem of political ontology and social justice / Alexander I. Stingl -- Social conservatism, distractors, and authoritarianism : axiological versus cognitive rationality / Robert B. Smith -- Sociological deconstruction and reconstruction : mediation of opposites by interpenetration / Emanuel Smikum -- The base-superstructure hypothesis and the foundations of critical theory / Michael J. Thompson -- Bringing the critical back in : towards the resurrection of the Frankfurt school / Lauren Langman -- Action and reaction : response to Bradford / John Levi Martin -- Explaining social action revisited : a reply to John Levi Martin / John Bradford.
  note: edited by Harry F. Dahms.
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: Sociology
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Social Science
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Social theory
  subject:
    topic: Social forecasting, future studies
  subject:
    topic: Society & culture: general
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Social action
  subject:
    topic: Social change
  classification: HM571 .M43 2014
  classification: 301.072
  classification: 316
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 32
  identifier: 9781784412227 (electronic bk.) :
  identifier: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0278-1204/32
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    record creation date: 150115
    record change date: 20150115111713.0
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