ISBN:
9780415644020
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (287 p)
Series Statement:
Rethinking Globalizations
Parallel Title:
Print version Critical Rationalism and Globalization : Towards the Sociology of the Open Global Society
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Critical Rationalism and Globalization addresses how the access to critical reason enables people to shape a new social order on a global scale.This book demonstrates how the philosophy of critical rationalism contributes to the sociology of Globalization, through uncovering the role of critical reason in arriving at an agreement on common values and institutions on a global scale. It discusses how value consensus on the institutions of sovereignty and inter-state law has prepared the ground for the rise of a global system of national societies after the end of World War II. Masoud Alamuti arg
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Dedication; Acknowledgement; Preface; Preface from series editor; 1. Introduction; Bibliography; 2. Epistemology and the Theory of Society; Epistemology and Rational Dialogue on Ultimate Values; Knowledge as Justified True Belief; The Dogmatic Approach to Knowledge and Rationality; The Skeptical Approach to Knowledge and Rationality; A Nonjustificational Epistemology and Rational Dialogue; Popper's Epistemology and Irrational Faith in Reason; Bartley's Epistemology and Rationality as Openness to Criticism
Description / Table of Contents:
Critical Rationalism and the Theory of SocietyCritical Rationalism and a Revisable Value Consensus; From a Closed to an Open Society: A Normative Change; Notes; Bibliography; 3. The Theory of Society and the Sociology of Globalization; The Hobbesian Problem of Social Order and Modern Sociology; Common Values and the Meaning of Social Order; Globalization and the Societal Meaning of Global Order; The Theory of Society and Globalization: Three Telling Examples; Marx's Theory of Society and Wallerstein's World-System Theory; Parsons's Sociology and Robertson's Theory of Globalization
Description / Table of Contents:
Durkheim's Sociology and Meyer's Theory of World SocietyCritical Rationalism and the Sociology of Globalization; Rational Dialogue and Common Values for Global Order; Competing Ways of Life and an Open Global Society; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Human Action for Social Change; The Central Problem in Action Theory; Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Action Theory; Redefining the Problem of Action Theory; The Theory of Society and an Oversocialized Image of the Individual; Recognition of an Oversocialized Person; Durkheim's Theory of Society: The Image of the Individual-in-Society
Description / Table of Contents:
Weber's Theory of Society: The Place of the Individual-in-SocietyParsons's Theory of Society: The Oversocialized Image of the Person; A Justificational Epistemology and the Oversocialized Individual; Human Action Theory: A Critical-Rationalist Approach; The Problem of Action Theory and an Independent Actor; Nonjustificational Epistemology and Ethics of Openness to Criticism; The Moral Philosophy of Openness to Criticism and The Ideal Types of Human Action; The Critical-Rationalist Action Theory: Premises and Conclusion; The Action Theory and Civil Society Actors; Notes; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
5. From a Closed to an Open Society: Unfinished ModernityThe Theory of Society: A Critical-Rationalist Approach; Critical Rationalism and Sociological Theory; Critical-Rationalist Sociology: The Five Elements of Social Change; From Traditional to Liberal Society: A New Sociology of Modernity; An Epistemic Solution for Traditional Society; The Problem of a Conflict of Opinions; The Moral Ideal of Liberal Society: Epistemic Logic; From Value to Institutional Change: The English and American Revolutions; The Puritan Movement and the English Revolution; Milton and the Puritan Movement
Description / Table of Contents:
The Puritan Movement, New Values, and the End of the Monarchy
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
