Moral order and social disorder : the American search for civil society /: the American search for civil society. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Frank Hearn.
• Authors: Hearn, Frank
• Contents: Bad parents -- Two solutions -- Commodification and juridification -- A sociological view: the importance of social institutions -- Bad neighbors -- Bad neighbors and the underclass -- Two analyses -- A sociological view: the importance of social control and communitarian interdependencies -- Conclusion -- In the absence of society: liberal individualism and anomie -- Portraits of life in the absence of society -- Liberal modernity -- Anomie and the sociological critique of liberal modernity -- Conclusion -- Moral individuals: in the presence of society -- Liberal views of morality -- Durkheim's sociology of morality -- Institutions, communitarian interdependencies, and morality -- Moral individuals and liberal individuals -- Social capital: gifts and sacredness in society -- A wonderful life -- Gifts -- Sacredness -- The loss of social capital as the loss of soul privatization as individualization versus privatization as sacralization -- Conclusion -- The politics of social breakdown: revitalizing civil society -- The inability to attend -- Inattentive parents and the political right -- Civil society -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.0973; Social problems -- United States; Social values -- United States; Civil society -- United States; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; United States -- Moral conditions; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351504669; 1351504665
• Related ISBNs: 9780202306049; 9780202306032
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 18, 2017).
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