Late modernity [electronic resource] : trajectories towards morphogenic society / Margaret S. Archer, editor.
Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford) editor.
2014
QH491
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Title Late modernity [electronic resource] : trajectories towards morphogenic society / Margaret S. Archer, editor.
ISBN 9783319032665 (electronic book)
3319032666 (electronic book)
9783319032658
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03266-5
Published Cham : Springer, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-03266-5 doi
Call Number QH491
Dewey Decimal Classification 571.8/33
Summary 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 peoples 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 17, 2014).
Added Author Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford) editor.
Series Social Morphogenesis.
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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.

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