Overview
- Develops a path to critical sociology that overcomes the bottlenecks of current critical theory
- Proposes a symptomatic as well as a sociological diagnostic of ‘normative intermittency’
- Offers a compelling sociological diagnosis of the crisis of normative social orders
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Societal Symptomatic
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Front Matter
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Political Outcomes
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book addresses the manifold crisis of current societies and understands it as a failure of normative social structuration. As an exemplar for this development, it analyses the decline of welfare state models and the corresponding societal compromise. Yet, it evaluates them as a symptom of a wider malaise of normative orders in complex societies. The question thus arises as to how social science can study the ongoing societal transformation. The book frames the phenomenon as ‘normative intermittency’ to capture its fluid alternation of social structuration and destructuration and develops its analysis in three steps: first, it draws a theoretically reflected symptomatic of its occurrences; it then establishes the sociological diagnosis necessary to understand its unfolding and finally evaluates its political outcomes. Methodologically, the book advocates a complete overhaul of the analytical frames of sociology to gauge the intermittent rhythm of the ongoing societal transformation. Thus, it develops an innovative reading of classical sociological theory beyond a number of unreflected axiomatic assumptions of the current sociological mainstream. Thanks to the assessment of the political outcomes of failing social structuration the book turns to a discussion of the development of possible emancipation paths in the form of ‘transformative social action’; reflexively, this accounts for the results of the sociological diagnosis of the crisis of normative social orders. The main analyses within the book scrutinise a number of empirical phenomena that establish normative intermittency in current societies and refer to the major debates that are taking place on the related topics in the state of art of sociological and political theory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gregor Fitzi is Associated Researcher at the Centre Georg Simmel, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Normative Intermittency
Book Subtitle: A Sociology of Failing Social Structuration
Authors: Gregor Fitzi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06174-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06173-8Published: 16 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06176-9Published: 17 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06174-5Published: 14 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 342
Topics: Sociological Theory, Political Sociology, Critical Theory