Social Theory for a Changing Society

ISBN-13: 9780367303150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 389 str.

Pierre Bourdieu; James S. Coleman; Zdzislawa Walaszek Coleman

Opis

This book examines changes in technology and social organization and shows how social theory can inform the construction of social organization. It provides avenues of future social development. The book is based on a conference "Social Theory and Emerging Issues in a Changing Society".

Spis treści

Prologue: Constructed Social Organization, /fames S. Coleman 1 -- PART ONE -- CHANGES IN TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES -- 1 Moebius-Strip Organizations and Open Labor Markets: Some Consequences of the Reintegration of Conception and Execution in a Volatile Economy, /Charles Sabel -- 2 The Future of Bureaucracy and Hierarchy in Organizational Theory: A Report from the Field, /Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- 3 Indirect Relationships and Imagined Communities: Large-Scale Social Integration and the Transformation of Everyday Life, /Craig Calhoun 95 -- PART TWO -- CHANGES IN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND CULTURAL TRANSMISSION -- 4 Social Structure, Institutions, and Cultural Goods: The Case of the United States, /Paul DiMaggio -- 5 The New and the Old in Religion, /Thomas Luckmann -- 6 Families, Childrearing, and Education Opening Remarks, /Charles E. Bidwell -- Institutions and Human Capital Development, /Mary C. Brinton -- Individuals, Institutions, and Academic Achievement, /fames W. Stigler -- PART THREE -- CHANGES IN SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL -- 7 On the Individualistic Theory of Social Order, /Alessandro Pizzorno -- 8 Discretion, Institutions, and the Problem of Government Commitment, /Kenneth A. Shepsle -- 9 Law Without Accidents, /Kim Lane Scheppele -- PART FOUR -- NEW POLITICAL BOUNDARIES AND NEW POLITICAL FORMS -- 10 Bounded States in a Global Market: The Uses of International Labor Migrations, /Aristide R. Zolberg -- 11 Intellectuals and Domination in Post-Communist Societies, /George Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi -- Epilogue: On the Possibility of a Field of World Sociology, /Pierre Bourdieu -- About the Book and Editors.

O autorze

Bourdieu, Pierre; Coleman, James S.; Coleman, Zdzislawa Walaszek