Society in flux : two centuries of social theory /: two centuries of social theory. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Harry F. Dahms.
• Editors: Dahms, Harry F
• Contents: PART I. A PROGRAMMATIC INTRODUCTION REVISITED (AND UPDATED) Social theory's burden: from heteronomy to Vitacide (or, how classical critical theory predicted proliferating rackets, authoritarian personalities, and administered worlds in the 21st century); Harry F. Dahms PART II. CRITICAL THEORY Chapter 1. Critical theory, the imagination, and the critique of judgment: Horkheimer's vision reconsidered; John Levi Martin Chapter 2. Marx, critical theory, and the treadmill of production of value: why environmental sociology needs a critique of capital; Alexander M. Stoner PART III. CLASSICAL THEORY Chapter 3. Emil Lederer's theory of the new middle class: historical and current relevance of a key sociological concept; Sandro Segre Chapter 4. Figuring the beginning: Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer as founding figures of sociology; Tobias Schlechtriemen PART IV. SYSTEMS THEORY Chapter 5. Sociology as social system: Luhmann, enlightenment, and the gap between 'facts' and 'norms'; Anthony J. Knowles Chapter 6. Give me an operation and I will give you a system: the psychic in Luhmann's theory; Santiago Gabriel Calise.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301.09; Sociology -- History -- 19th century; Sociology -- History -- 20th century; Sociology -- History -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781802622430; 9781802622416
• Related ISBNs: 9781802622423
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