Normative Intermittency - Fitzi, Gregor

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Auteur(s) : Fitzi, Gregor

Editeur : Springer International Publishing Ag

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/2022

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 352

Expédition : 568

Dimensions : 21.6 x 15.3 x 2.4

ISBN : 303106173X

Résumé :

1. Introduction.- 2. The manifold crisis of complex societies.- 3. The malaise of normative societal structuration.- 4. Economic liberalism and social fragmentation.- 5. Evidences in structure theory.- 6. Troubles in action theory.- 7. Shifting legitimacy: the theoretical issue of social validity.- 8. Consequences in structure theory.- 9. Conclusions in sociological diagnosis.- 10. Political Outcomes.

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Biographie:
Gregor Fitzi is Associated Researcher at the Centre Georg Simmel, ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales, France. ...

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Table of contents

The path to critical sociology. 4

Part I: Societal symptomatic. 13

1. The manifold crisis of complex societies. 13

1.1 Missing social legitimation. 13

1.2 Social and environmental risks of 'crumbling late capitalism' 21

1.3 The shifting idea of socialism.. 33

1.4 The loss of the welfare-state compromise. 46

2. The malaise of normative societal structuration. 55

2.1 Normativity beyond defensive modernity. 55

2.2 Secularism and its adversities. 62

2.3 Normative intermittency in qualitative differentiated societies. 70

3. Economic liberalism and social fragmentation. 81

3.1 Functional neutrality lost: colonising society through economic logic. 81

3.2 Increasing social fragmentation. 88

3.3 Societal self-interpretation and sociological critique. 96

Part II: Sociological diagnosis. 104

4. Evidences in structure theory. 104

4.1 Weakening social structuration. 104

4.2 Intermittent legal validity. 111

5. Troubles in action theory. 119

5.1 Participant perspective. 119

5.1.1 Beyond the hypostasis of collective action subjects. 119

5.1.2 The unsurmountable fragmentation of social action centres. 123

5.1.3 The participant logic of social action. 126

5.2 Observer perspective. 134

5.2.1 Contract-driven social action. 138

5.2.2 Consensus-driven social action. 141

5.2.3 The observer logic of social action. 144

5.3 Conclusions in action theory. 147

6. Shifting legitimacy: the theoretical issue of social validity. 153

6.1 Establishing intermittent social orders from the participant perspective. 153

6.1.1 Competing enforcement of multiple social structures. 153

6.1.2 Intermittent validity beyond lifestyle. 156

6.1.3 Creative cultural performance. 159

6.2. Establishing intermittent social orders from the observer perspective. 162

6.2.1 The ratio of social order. 162

6.2.2 Asymmetric consensus. 165

6.2.3 Conflict, power and the rule of law.. 172

6.3 Scholium 1: the micro-sociological limits of institutionalisation. 176

6.4 Scholium 2: the anthropological limits of validity. 179

6.5 Conclusions in the theory of social validity. 183

7. Consequences in structure theory. 187

7.1 Qualitative societal differentiation revisited. 187

7.2 Modernity as intermittent destructuring structuration. 191

7.3 Intermittent foundation of legal and political orders. 198

7.4 Social integration through cultural conflict 204

7.5 Institutionalised liquefaction beyond trust 210

7.6 Consensus conflicts and societal colonisation. 215

8. Conclusions in sociological diagnosis. 222

8.1 Failing social structuration as regression from legitimacy to consensus. 222

Part III: Political outcomes. 229

9. Recovering normative social structuration

9.1 Seeking social and environmental progress. 229

9.2 Transformative social action for the 21^st century. 236

Bibliography. 244

Editions: 244

Literature: 244