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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483246703321

Titolo

Late Modernity : Trajectories towards Morphogenic Society / / edited by Margaret S. Archer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-03266-6

9783319032665

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Social Morphogenesis, , 2198-1604

Disciplina

571.833

Soggetti

Sociology

International relations

Sociology, general

International Relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction: 'Stability' or Stabilization' - on which would Morphogenic Society Depend?; Margaret S. Archer -- Chapter 2. A Speeding up of the Rate of Social Change? Power, Technology, Resistance, Globalization and the Good Society; Tony Lawson -- Chapter 3. The Emergent Social Qualities of a 'Morphogenetic' Society: Cultures, Structures, and Forms of Reflexivity; Andrea M. Maccarini -- Chapter 4. Contemporary Mechanisms of Social Change; Douglas V. Porpora --  -- Chapter 5. The Generative Mechanisms Re-Configuring Late Modernity; Margaret S. Archer -- Chapter 6. On the Validity of Describing 'Morphogenic Society' as a System and Justifiability of Thinking about it as a Social Formation; Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Chapter 7. Morphogenic Society and the Structure of Social Relations; Pierpaolo Donati -- Chapter 8. Morphogenesis Unbound from the Dynamics of Multilevel Networks: A Neo-Structural Perspective; Emmanuel Lazega -- Chapter 9. Morphogenesis and Normativity: Problems the Former Creates for the Latter; Ismael Al-Amoudi -- Chapter 10. Morphogenesis and Cooperation in the International Political System; Colin Wight.



Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines the reasons for intensified social change after 1980; a peaceful process of a magnitude that is historically unprecedented. It examines the kinds of novelty that have come about through morphogenesis and the elements of stability that remain because of morphostasis. It is argued that this pattern cannot be explained simply by ‘acceleration’. Instead, we must specify the generative mechanism(s) involved that underlie and unify ordinary people’s experiences of different disjunctions in their lives. The book discusses the umbrella concept of ‘social morphogenesis’ and the possibility of transition to a ‘Morphogenic Society’. It examines possible ‘generative mechanisms’ accounting for the effects of ‘social morphogenesis’ in transforming previous and much more stable practices. Finally, it seeks to answer the question of what is required in order to justify the claim that Morphogenic society can supersede modernity.    .