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THE CURRENT STATE OF SOCIAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
Stephan FuchsThe following papers represent a selection from presentations made to the Theory Session of the 1995 Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association in Washington, D.C…
A MACRO‐LEVEL FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF SOCIETAL DISINTEGRATION
Jonathan H. TurnerA functionalist framework is used to synthesize well‐known ideas about societal integration and, conversely, disintegration. If the underlying Darwinian metaphor in functional…
MODERNIZATION, GENERATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE ECONOMY OF LIFE TIME
Ansgar WeymannA classic study of generation‐specific life situations and life worlds under conditions of high speed modernization, and of the resulting changes in generational relations, life…
SYSTEMS THEORY AND POWER/KNOWLEDGE:: A Foucauldian Reconstruction of Niklas Luhmann's Systems Theory
Michael RempelAlthough Niklas Luhmann refrains from an explicit treatment of power as a force of social constraint, I propose that, if partially reconstructed, his Systems Theory can illuminate…
THE REFLEXIVE ORDER OF LANGUAGE AND ACTIVITIES: SECOND THOUGHTS ON GARFINKEL'S ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
Lucia RuggeroneThe reflections presented in this paper were inspired by a simple consideration: that, although the kind of sociological investigation indicated as ethnomethodology originated as…
ON THE DESIRABILITY AND POSSIBILITY OF A POSITIVE SOCIOLOGY
Chien LiuThe current crisis of sociological theory is due to our failure to do sociology as a positive science‐our failure to accept both explanation and prediction as the goal of…
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