ISBN:
9780230376342
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (211 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: SYNTHESIS AND CAUSALITY -- 1 Active and Conditioning Causality in Sociological Theory -- Fragmentation and reconstruction -- Action and structure in sociological theory -- Searching for the origins -- Surpassing the polarisation -- Individualism and holism: ideology and the layers of social reality -- Structure, movement and social properties -- 2 Individuals, Structures and Systems in Giddens' Structuration Theory -- The synthetical character of the theory of structuration -- Action, system and structure -- Collective actors, individualism and history -- 3 Life-World and System in Habermas' Historical Materialism -- Synthesis and dialectics -- Action, life-world and system -- Capitalism, identities and social movements -- PART II: TWO CONCEPTS OF COLLECTIVE SUBJECTIVITY -- 4 Marx: the Critique of Liberalism and the Social Classes -- Interaction and dialectics -- Social classes as collective subjects -- Properties, structure and action -- 5 Parsons: Social Systems and Collective Actors -- Individualism and analytical realism -- Social systems and collective actors -- Functional analysis and collective subjectivity -- PART III: SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND COLLECTIVE SUBJECTIVITY -- Introduction: Theory and Synthesis -- 6 Interaction, System and Structure -- A concept of interaction -- Properties and elements of interaction -- Systems, structures and structurings -- From interaction and beyond -- 7 The Constitution of Collective Subjectivities -- The decentring of the subject and collective subjectivity -- The internal contingency of subjectivity -- Interaction and the constitution of collectivities -- Structures and causality -- 8 Collective Subjectivity and Multidimensionality -- Perspectives and material constitution -- The space-time dimension of social systems.
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