"Neofunctionalism and After" brings together for the first time in one volume all of Alexander's writings on neofunctionalism, the present volume also contains two chapters written especially for this publication. The first, "From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory", is an autobiographical reconstruction of the origins of this movement. The other, "Action, Culture, and Civil Society", is an ambitious theoretical argument in which Alexander asserts that the internal contradictions of neofunctionalism inevitably lead to a new movement of theoretical reconstruction that goes beyond it.
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Brings together in one volume the author's writings on neofunctionalism. This book also contains two chapters for this book: "From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory" and "Action, Culture, and Civil Society".
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Series Editor's Preface. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: Origins of a Theoretical Project: 1. From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory. 2. Traditions and Competition: Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Cumulation. Part II: Reinventing Parsons/Reconstructing His Tradition: 3. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition. 4. Parsons's Structure in American Sociology. 5. Formal Sociology Is not Multidimensional: Breaking the Code in Parsons's Fragment on Simmel. 6. On Choosing Ones Intellectual Predecessors: Why Charles Camic is Wrong About Parsons's Early Work. 7. Structure, Value, Action: What Did the Early Parsons Mean and What Should He Have Said, Instead? Part III: After Neofunctionalism: Its Contribution to Theory Creation Today: 8. The New Theoretical Movement. 9. Action, Culture and Civil Society. Name Index. Subject Index.
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"The unique contribution of Jeffrey Alexander has been to develop a creative bridge between the significant components of the classical legacy and innovative advances in modern theory. In his new collection on neofunctionalism he advances the debate about Parsons and functionalism beyond the conventional platitudes about functionalist conservatism into contemporary debates about civil society, theory construction and cultural analysis. Neofunctionalism and After is a suble, thoughtful introduction to modern sociology, and in a period of nationalist rivalry, provides a global bridge between the European and North American traditions." Bryan S. Turner, Deakin University, Australia
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781557866301
Publisert
1997-12-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Blackwell Publishers
Vekt
358 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
165 mm
Dybde
15 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, UU, P, UP
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Biographical note

Jeffrey C. Alexander is a Professor at the depatment of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been a Fellow at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies and at SCASSS in Sweden. His other books include Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory since World War Two (Columbia, 1987); Action and its Environments (Columbia, 1988); Fin-de-Si& #233;cle Social Theory (Verso, 1995); Neofunctionalism (Sage, 1985), Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates (with Steven Seidman, Cambridge, 1990).