02798nam 2200577 a 450 991073945810332120200520144314.01-299-40835-494-007-6128-710.1007/978-94-007-6128-5(CKB)2670000000338274(EBL)1106315(OCoLC)828794257(SSID)ssj0000879730(PQKBManifestationID)11487993(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000879730(PQKBWorkID)10852887(PQKB)10471829(DE-He213)978-94-007-6128-5(MiAaPQ)EBC1106315(PPN)168342286(EXLCZ)99267000000033827420130123d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSocial morphogenesis /Margaret S. Archer, editor1st ed. 2013.Dordrecht Springer20131 online resource (229 p.)Description based upon print version of record.94-007-9346-4 94-007-6127-9 Includes bibliographical references.pt. 1. Social morphogenesis and social transformation? -- pt. 2. Social formations and their re-formation -- pt. 3. Social networks : linkages or bonds?.The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback that restores or reproduces the form of the social order) best captures the process involved.   This volume resists proclaiming a new social formation as so many books written by empiricists have done by extrapolating from empirical data.  Until we can convincingly demonstrate that a new generative mechanism is at work, it is premature to argue what accounts for the global changes that are taking place and where they will lead. More concisely we seek to answer the question whether or not current social change can be regarded as social morphogenesis. Only then, in the next volumes will the same team of authors be able to remove the question mark.Social changeMorphogenesisSocial change.Morphogenesis.303.484Archer Margaret Scotford287729MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910739458103321Social morphogenesis4191303UNINA