ISBN:
9781135077020
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (459 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
Critical realism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This title reflects the general theme of the 2010 IACR annual conference that was held in Padova, Italy, the aim of which was to provide a fresh view on some cultural and structural changes involving Western societies after the world economic crisis of 2008, from the point of view of Critical Realism. Global society is often regarded as disrupting identities and blurring boundaries, one which entails giving up ideas of structure and fixity. Globalization supposedly introduces a "liquid" era of fluidity where everything is possible, and anything goes. Nevertheless, its current dynamics are developing into a harder reality: wars, economic crisis, the haunting risk of pandemics, the ever worsening food supply crisis, and the environmental challenge. These social facts call for a dramatic shift in the optimistic cosmopolitan mood and the thought that we can build and rebuild ourselves and our world as we please, at least for the most developed countries. The challenges we face produce new forms of social life and individual experience. They also require us to develop new frameworks to analyze emergent contexts, institutional complexes and morphogenetic fields, and new ways to understand human agency and the meaning of emancipation. The book broadly falls into three parts: The first, "Social Ontology and a New Historical Formation", deals with mainly social ontological issues, insofar as they are connected to social scientific and public issues in the emerging society of the XXI century. The second, "Being human and the adventure of agency", is concerned with the way human beings adapts to the "new world" of "our times", and comes up with innovative models of agency and socialization. The third, "The constitutionalization of the new world", explores critical realist perspectives, as compared to system-theoretical ones, on the issue of global order and
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Ontological explorations -- Full Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: engaging with the world: critical social science in the wake of the 'big crisis' of 'our times' -- PART I Social ontology and a new historical formation -- 1 Prolegomenon: the consequences of the revindication of philosophical ontology for philosophy and social theory -- 2 A morphogenetic-relational account of social emergence: processes and forms -- 3 Reflexive social subjectivities -- 4 Realist engagements in critical hermeneutics -- PART II Being human and the adventure of agency in the twenty-first century: towards a sociology of engagement -- 5 Reconceptualizing socialization as reflexive engagement -- 6 Engagement as a social relation: a leap into trans-modernity -- 7 The human being invested in social forms: four extensions of the notion of engagement -- PART III The constitutionalization of the new world: realism and global order -- 8 The new world order: what role for critical realism? -- 9 Complex governance and Europe's model of subsidiarity -- Index.
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