ISBN:
9783030136246
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (287 pages)
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DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
Globalization-Social aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Unbound Morphogenesis in a Closed World -- 1.1 Locked and Unchained -- 1.2 Approach and Outline -- References -- The Morphogenetic Approach: Debates and Extensions -- 2 Analysing the Morphogenic Society. Regularities and Social Ontology -- 2.1 Social Morphogenesis from Meta-Theory to Forms of Social Order -- 2.2 Morphogenesis and Regularity: Making Friends with Old Enemies? -- 2.3 Duration, Pace, Trajectory, Turning Points, Transitions, and Cycles. New Bricks for the Morphogenetic Fabric -- 2.4 Regularities and Social Ontologies -- References -- 3 After Late Modernity? The Morphogenetic Approach as Hermeneutics of Transition -- 3.1 The Attractions and Discontents of Historical Diagnosis -- 3.2 After (Functionalist) Modernization Theory: Contingency Beyond 'Master Trends' -- 3.3 Socio-Historical Patterns and Logics of Development: Conceptual Alternatives in the Era of Contingency -- 3.4 The Morphogenetic Approach as Hermeneutics of Transition: Chance, Plans, Agency and Relationships -- References -- An Outline of the Morphogenic Society -- 4 Openness and Closure in Turbulent Times: Adaptive Responses to Unbound Morphogenesis -- 4.1 Unbound Morphogenesis and the Emergence of the New -- 4.2 On the Concept of Social Mechanism -- 4.3 Things We Lost in the Fire and Things Emerging from It: A Landscape of Social Emergence -- 4.4 Changing Temporal Structures: Social Acceleration -- 4.5 Enclaves and Vortexes as 'Morphogenic Environments': A Thesis and Its Working Tools -- 4.6 Relational Conjunctures and Morphogenic Environments -- 4.7 Conclusion. Openness, Closure, and the Big Bang of Social Relationships -- References -- 5 The Logic of Opportunity and Its Normative (Dis)contents -- 5.1 Introduction: Social Norms and Social Morphogenesis.
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