Generative mechanisms transforming the social order [electronic resource] / Margaret S. Archer, editor.
Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford) editor.
2015
HM891
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Title Generative mechanisms transforming the social order [electronic resource] / Margaret S. Archer, editor.
ISBN 9783319137735 electronic book
3319137735 electronic book
9783319137728
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13773-5
Published Cham : Springer, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-13773-5 doi
Call Number HM891
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.44
Summary This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called Morphogenic Society? This volume clarifies what a ℓ́ℓgenerative mechanismℓ́ℓ is, to achieve a better understanding of their social origins, and to delineate in what way such mechanisms exert effects within a current social formation, either stabilizing it or leading to changes potentially replacing it . The book explores questions about conjuncture, convergence and countervailing effects of morphogenetic mechanisms in order to assess their impact. Simultaneously, it looks at how products of positive feedback intertwine with the results of (morphostatic) negative feedback. This process also requires clarification, especially about the conditions under which morphostasis prevails over morphogenesis and vice versa. It raises the issue as to whether their co-existence can be other than short-lived. The volume addresses whether or not there also is a process of ℓ́ℓmorpho-necrosisℓ́ℓ, i.e. the ultimate demise of certain morphostatic mechanisms, such that they cannot ℓ́ℓrecoverℓ́ℓ. The book concludes that not only are generative mechanisms required to explain associations between variables involved in the replacement of Late Modernity by Morphogenic Society, but they are also robust enough to account for cases and times when such variables show no significant correlations.
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Series Social morphogenesis.
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Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction: Other Conceptions of Generative Mechanisms and Ours; Margaret S. Archer
Part I. Conceptualising Mechanisms
Chapter 2. Causal Mechanisms: Lessons from the Life Sciences; Philip Gorski
Chapter 3. Mechanisms and Models; Some Examples from International Relations; Colin Wright
Chapter 4. Social Mechanisms and Their Feedbacks; Pierpaolo Donati
Part II. Venturing Morphogenetic Mechanisms
Chapter 5. ''Mechanisms'' of the Build-Up of Information Society; Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Chapter 6. Body Captors and Network Profiles: A Neo-Structural Note on Digitalized Social Control and Morphogenesis; Emmanuel Lazega
Chapter 7. How Agency is Transformed in the Course of Social Transformation: Don't Forget the Double Morphogenesis; Margaret S. Archer
Chapter 8. Turbulence and Relational Conjunctures: The Emergence of Morphogenic Environments; Andrea Maccarini
Part III. Mechanisms and Morphostasis: Power of Life and Death
Chapter 9. Why Don't Things Change? The Matter of Morphostasis; Douglas V. Porpora
Chapter 10. The Modern Corporation: The Site of a Mechanism (of Global Social Change) that is Out-of-Control; Tony Lawson
Chapter 11. Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation; Ismael Al-Amoudi and John Latsis. .

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