New Horizons in Sociological Theory and Research: The Frontiers of Sociology at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781138635586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 436 str.

LUIGI TOMASI

Opis

This title was first published in 2001. An examination of the tasks and frontiers that confront sociology at the start of the third millennium. Distinguished contributors analyze the nature and effects of social changes such as the globalization of markets and unprecedented scientific and technological progress and explore the implications for the structure and organization of sociological research.

Spis treści

Contents: Sociology for the twenty-first century: necessary reconceptualizations, Luigi Tomasi. Theory and Research: New Horizons: Sociology between scientism and aestheticism, or can sociology be positivist today?, Raymond Boudon; Post-classical sociology or the twilight of sociology?, Michel Wieviorka; The challenge of multiple modernities, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt; Modern societies as knowledge societies, Nico Stehr and Volker Meja; Freedom versus control in post-modern society: a relational approach, Pierpaolo Donati. The New Realities of Today: Cosmopolitan Society, Globalization, Ethnicity, Nationality, Immigration: The cosmopolitan society and its enemies, Ulrich Beck; Sociology after the revolution in Eastern Europe: can it survive?, Zdzistaw Krasnodebski; Globalization and peripheral identity, Talis Tisenkopfs; Mind and collective consciousness, Steven Grosby; Beyond national and post-national models: transnational spaces and immigrant integration, Thomas Faist. The New Frontiers of Sociology: Some challenges for sociology in the new era, Edward A. Tiryakian; Toward a science of global marginality, Anthony J. Blasi; New horizons in religious evolution, Yves Lambert; Sociology in the twenty-first century: a discipline at the crossroads between senility or regeneration, Dirk Kaesler; The idea of alternative discourses, Syed Farid Alatas; Index.

O autorze

Tomasi, Luigi