00000cmm a22000008i 4500 UP-99796217612631974 Buklod 20171104163904.0 a r |||| u| ta 171104s2008 xx d u 9780511811418 (ebook) (iLib)UPD-00344414703 DML eng DMLUC HM 449 M62 2008eb Mouzelis, Nicos P. author. Modern and postmodern social theorizing [electronic resource] bridging the divide Nicos P. Mouzelis. Modern & Postmodern Social Theorizing Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008. 1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). pt. I. The theoretical background : the development of the agency-structure problematic -- 1. From Parsons' to Giddens' synthesis -- pt. II. Parsonian and post-Parsonian developments -- 2. Parsons and the development of individual rights -- 3. Evolution and democracy : Parsons and the collapse of communism -- 4. Post-Parsonian theory I : neo-functionalism and beyond -- 5. Post-Parsonian theory II : beyond the normative and the utilitarian -- pt. III. Agency and structure : reworking some basic conceptual tools -- 6. Social and system integration : Lockwood, Habermas and Giddens -- 7. The subjectivist-objectivist divide : against transcendence -- 8. Habitus and reflexivity : restructuring Bourdieu's theory of practice -- pt. IV. Bridges between modern and late/postmodern theorizing -- 9. Modernity : a non-Eurocentric conceptualization -- 10. Ethical relativism : between scientism and cultural relativism -- 11. Cognitive relativism : between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences -- 12. Social causation : between social constructionism and critical realism -- pt. V. Towards a non-essentialist holism -- 13. Grand narratives : contextless and context-sensitive theories -- 14. The actor-structure dimension : anti-conflationist holism -- 15. The micro-macro dimension : anti-essentialist holism -- 16. The inter-institutional dimension : beyond economism and culturalism -- App. In defence of 'grand' historical sociology. IP-based subscription, access limited to within on-campus computer network. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website. There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists criticize postmodern approaches for their rejection of holistic conceptual frameworks which facilitate an overall picture of how social wholes (organizations, communities, nation-states, etc.) are constituted, reproduced and transformed. They believe the rejection of holistic methodologies leads to social myopia - a refusal to explore critically the type of broad problems that classical sociology deals with. This book attempts to bridge the divide between these two conflicting perspectives and proposes a novel holistic framework which is neither reductionist/economistic nor essentialist. Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing will appeal to scholars and students of social theory and of social sciences in general. Electronic books. Postmodernism Social aspects. Sociology Methodology. Sociology Philosophy. Social sciences Philosophy. Cambridge Books Online (Online service). Print version 9780521515856. Available for University of the Philippines System via Cambridge Books Online. Click here to access https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511811418 (viewed 9 November 2017) FO Monograph UPD DMLS HM 449 M62 2008eb Electronic Resource