Deep change and emergent structures in global society : explorations in social morphogenesis /: explorations in social morphogenesis. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andrea M. Maccarini.
• Authors: Maccarini, Andrea
• Contents: 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 Transition3.1 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 5.2 Normative Tensions in a Morphogenic Society: Foci, Challenges and Strategies5.3 Morphogenic Society, Morphological Rights: The Logic of Opportunity and Its Ontological (Dis)Contents; 5.4 The Quest for Universalism in the Morphogenic Society; 5.5 Conclusion; References; 6 War and Violence in the Morphogenic Society; 6.1 Introduction: The New Connection Between War and Society; 6.2 The Mystery of War: What Social Science Knows; 6.3 'Who Now Reads Spencer?' War and Modernity Revisited; 6.4 Sociological Analysis of War: The Morphogenetic Approach 6.5 Transforming War and the Transformative Power of War6.6 Conclusion. Mobilizing, Expanding, Delimiting War; References; 7 Formations of the Secular. Transcendence in a Closed World; 7.1 The Problem; 7.2 Axiality: An Old New Tool for Analysis; 7.3 Pluralism, Contingency, and Axiality in a Morphogenic Environment; 7.4 Conclusion: Axial Morphogenesis and Axial Catastrophes; References; Humanity Counts. Anthropological Consequences of Unbound Morphogenesis; 8 The Pressure on the Human. Education, Self, and Character in the New Social Order; 8.1 Unbound Morphogenesis and the Issue of Education 8.2 Education and the Management of Excess
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages)
• Subjects: 303.4; Social change; Social evolution; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030136246; 3030136248
• Related ISBNs: 303013623X; 9783030136239
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2019).
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