Understanding Modernity : Toward a new perspective going beyond Durkheim and Weber

ISBN-13: 9780415584265 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 360 str.

Richard Münch

Opis

Offers an understanding and exploration of the rise and development of modern society, based on two classical theorists, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. This title begins with an exploration of the points of convergence and divergence in the works of Durkheim and Weber.

Spis treści

Part I: Between Positivism, Idealism and Voluntarism: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim  1. The Convergence Between Weber and Durkheim: Interpretation and Explanation, the sacred and the profane  2. The divergence between Weber and Durkheim: Rational and Affectual Bases of Modern Social Order  Part II: Social Order and Individual Anatomy  3. Community and Social Order  4. Socialization and Personality Development  Part III: The Unique Nature, Formation, Development and Structural Problems of the Modern Social Order: Max Weber  5. `Capitalism' and `Occidental rationalism': Two Perspectives on the analysis of the Structural Problems in Modern Societies  6. Via Parsons to Weber: From the Theory of Rationalization to the Theory of Interpenetration

O autorze

Richard Munch