Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing: Bridging the Divide

摘要: Introduction Part I. The Theoretical Background: Development of the Agency-Structure Problematic: 1. From Parsons' to Giddens' synthesis II. Parsonian and Post-Parsonian Developments: 2. Parsons development individual rights 3. Evolution democracy: collapse communism 4. theory I: neo-functionalism beyond Postscript: Alexander's cultural sociology 5. II: normative utilitarian III. Agency Structure: Reworking some Basic Conceptual Tools: 6. Social system integration: Lockwood, Habermas Giddens 7. subjectivist-objectivist divide: against transcendence 8. Habitus reflexivity: restructuring Bourdieu's practice IV. Bridges Between Modern Late/Postmodern Theorizing: 9. Modernity: a non-Eurocentric conceptualization 10. Ethical relativism: between scientism relativism 11. Cognitive positivistic relativistic thinking in social sciences 12. causation: constructionism critical realism V. Towards Non-Essentialist Holism: 13. Grand narratives: contextless context-sensitive theories 14. actor-structure dimension: anti-conflationist holism 15. micro-macro anti-essentialist 16. inter-institutional economism culturalism Instead Conclusion: twelve rules for construction an open-ended holistic paradigm Appendix: In defence 'grand' historical sociology.