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050	0	4	_aHM449 _b.M62 2008
100	1		_aMouzelis, Nicos P.
245	1	0	_aModern and postmodern social theorizing : _bbridging the divide / _cNicos P. Mouzelis.
264		1	_aCambridge, UK ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2008.
300			_axiii, 311 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tContents _tFigures _tAcknowledgements _tIntroduction _tPART I The theoretical background: the development of the agency–structure problematic _t1 From Parsons’ to Giddens’ synthesis _tIntroduction _t1 Parsonian functionalism: the emphasis on system/structure _t2 Interpretative micro-sociologies: the emphasis on agency _t3 The rational-choice paradigm _ta. The ideal-typical nature of rational-choice theory _tborn Rational-choice institutionalism _t4 Decentring the subject I: hidden codes _ta. Anthropological and Marxist structuralism _tborn Decentring and recentring the subject _t5 Decentring the subject II: subjectless practices _t6 Decentring the subject III: texts _ta. Textualism _tborn The conflation of the discursive and the non-discursive _tc. Cultural sociology _t7 Transcending the subjectivist–objectivist divide: attempts at a post-Parsonian synthesis _ta. Giddens’ transcendence strategy _tborn Bourdieu’s transcendence strategy _t8 The overall abolition of boundaries _tConclusion _tPART II Parsonian and post-Parsonian developments _t2 Parsons and the development of individual rights _t1 T..H. Marshall: civil, political and social rights _t2 T. Parsons: rights and revolutions _ta. Economic and political differentiation _tborn Educational differentiation _t3 Differentiation and the mechanisms of change _t4 Integration: balanced and unbalanced forms _tConclusion _t3 Evolution and democracy: Parsons and the collapse of communism _t1 Evolutionary universals _t2 The limits of modernization from above _t3 Some critical remarks _t4 Post-Parsonian theory I: neo-functionalism and beyond _tIntroduction _t1 The theory of action _t2 The theory of culture _t3 Action and culture: a critical assessment _t4 The theory of civil society _t5 The basic dilemma in the conceptualization of civil society _tConclusion _tPostscript: a lexander’s cultural sociology _tIntroduction _t1 On the conceptualization of culture _t2 The environments of action _t3 Cultural narratives as second-order discourses _tConclusion _t5 Post-Parsonian theory II: beyond the normative and the utilitarian _tIntroduction _t1 Three problematic presuppositions _ta. Teleological intentionality _tborn Instrumental control of the body _tc. The passive individual _t2 Constitutive theories of action and systemic theories of differentiation _t3 Some critical remarks _ta. Restructuring Parsons’ theory of action _tborn The rapprochement between constitution and differentiation theories _tConclusion _tPART III Agency and structure: reworking some basic conceptual tools _t6 Social and system integration: Lockwood, Habermas and Giddens _t1 Lockwood _t2 Habermas _t3 Giddens _tConclusion _t7 The subjectivist–objectivist divide: against transcendence _t1 On the concept of social structure _ta. Institutional or normative structures (box 1) _tborn Interactive or figurational structures (box 2) _tc. Distributional structures (boxes 3 and 4) _td. Independent variation _t2 The impasse of transcendence strategies _ta. Duality of structure: Giddens’ transcendence project _tborn Habitus: Bourdieu’s transcendence strategy _t3 A concrete example: the reproduction of the LSE as a social system _ta. Reproduction via the duality of structure _tborn Reproduction via the habitus _tc. Reproduction and the concept of strategying _t4 Concluding remarks: bridging rather than transcending the divide _t8 Habitus and reflexivity: restructuring Bourdieu’s theory of practice _tIntroduction _t1 Dispositions, positions and interactions _t2 Reflexivity _ta. Reflexivity and contradictions between dispositions, positions and figurations _tborn Reflexivity and intra-habitus contradictions _tc. Reflexivity unrelated to contradictions _t3 Bourdieu’s conception of the subject _t4 Restructuring the SDP scheme _tPART IV Bridges between modern and late/postmodern theorizing _t9 Modernity: a non-Eurocentric conceptualization _tIntroduction _t1 Modernity: mobilization/incorporation into the centre _t2 Modernity: institutional differentiation _ta. Formal and substantive differentiation _tborn Value generalization _tc. Adaptive upgrading _t3 Modernity: a non-Eurocentric conceptualization _t4 Modernity and the West _t5 Variants of modernity _t6 Late modernity and globalization _tConclusion _t10 Ethical relativism: between scientism and cultural relativism _t1 The golden rule perspective _t2 On the self-evidence of the golden rule _t3 Basic assumptions and difficulties of the relativist position _t4 Stepping stones towards growing socio-cultural interpenetration _t5 Eurocentrism _tConclusion _t11 Cognitive relativism: between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences _t1 Objectivity and the issue of mediation _t2 The postmodern critique of representation and empirical evidence _ta. The modern–postmodern debate in Greek historiography _tborn Avoiding relativism and essentialism _t3 The ‘internality’ of a discipline’s subject matter _ta. On the construction of a discipline’s subject matter _tborn In defence of the distinction between first- and second-order symbolic constructs _tConclusion _t12 Social causation: between social constructionism and critical realism _tIntroduction _t1 The Harré thesis _t2 Giddens’ conflationist strategy _t3 Archer’s anti-conflationist strategy _ta. From structuration to morphogenesis _tborn A critique of morphogenesis _tc. Perspectival or methodological dualism _tExternality in terms of historical time _tExternality in terms of hierarchized space _t4 Articulation of agentic and structural properties _ta. The internal conversation _tborn Three types of reflexivity _tc. Some critical comments _tThe externality and internality of enablements/constraints _tInteraction as a second mediating mechanism between agency and structure _tLinking agency and structure _tConclusion _tPART V Towards a non-essentialist holism _t13 Grand narratives: contextless and context-sensitive theories _t1 ‘Grand narratives’: context-sensitive and insensitive _t2 Holistic conceptual frameworks: open and closed _ta. The Marxist closure _tborn The Parsonian closure _t3 Non-essentialist holism: three types of openness _t14 The actor–structure dimension: anti-conflationist holism _tIntroduction _t1 Structures and actors _ta. Methodological remarks _tMethodological dualism _tThe space and time dimension _tborn A typology of structures _tInstitutional and figurational structures _tDistributional structures: virtual and actual _tSymbolic or cultural structures _tDispositional structures _tc. The agentic powers of actors _t2 On the linkages between the causal powers of actors and of structures _ta. The intra- and interactive dimensions _tborn A concrete example _t15 The micro–macro dimension: anti-essentialist holism _tIntroduction _t1 Strong and weak types of essentialism _ta. System essentialism _tWeak system essentialism _tStrong system essentialism (1) _tStrong system essentialism (2): teleological functionalism _tborn Actor essentialism _tFrom statistical categories or quasi-groups to groups _tThe pre-constituted character of actors’ identities and interests _t2 Interpretative sociologies: obstacles to micro–macro bridges _ta. Action–system imbalance _tborn Face-to-face interaction as micro _t3 Three guidelines for bridging micro and macro approaches _ta. Avoiding essentialism: a balance between social- and system-integration perspectives _tborn Social and system integration: from juxtaposition to articulation _tc. Avoiding reductionism: social hierarchies _t16 The inter-institutional dimension: beyond economism and culturalism _t1 Economism _t2 Culturalism and the priority of the lifeworld: from Marx to Parsons and Habermas _ta. Systemic culturalism _tborn The theoretical primacy of the lifeworld _tc. Critique _t3 Beyond economism and systemic culturalism _tInstead of Conclusion: Twelve rules for the construction of an open-ended holistic paradigm _tThe actor–structure dimension: anti-conflationist holism _tThe micro–macro dimension: anti-essentialist holism _tThe inter-institutional dimension: anti-economistic holism _tAppendix.
505	0	0	_tIn defence of ‘grand’ historical sociology _t1 The conflation of history and sociology _t2 The comparison with Spencer _t3 On the tenuous linkages between evidence and interpretation _t4 On the arbitrary character of grand historical sociology’s interpretations _tReferences _tIndex
650		0	_aPostmodernism _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aSociology _xMethodology.
650		0	_aSociology _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aSocial sciences _xPhilosophy.
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