Mediations of social life in the 21st century

Since the beginning of the modern age, studies of ongoing transformations of social life, human sociality, and social relations and institutions have been at the forefront of social theory, alongside changes in politics, culture, and economy and links between all of the above. In the twenty-first ce...

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Other Authors Dahms, Harry F.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
SeriesCurrent perspectives in social theory ; v. 32.
Subjects
Sociology > Research.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social action.
Social change.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781784412227
ISSN0278-1204 ;
DOI10.1108/S0278-1204201432
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 269 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Experience, problems of scale, and the aesthetics of perception / Lawrence Hazelrigg
  • Digital fairground : the virtualization of health, illness, and the experience of "becoming a patient" as a problem of political ontology and social justice / Alexander I. Stingl
  • Social conservatism, distractors, and authoritarianism : axiological versus cognitive rationality / Robert B. Smith
  • Sociological deconstruction and reconstruction : mediation of opposites by interpenetration / Emanuel Smikum
  • The base-superstructure hypothesis and the foundations of critical theory / Michael J. Thompson
  • Bringing the critical back in : towards the resurrection of the Frankfurt school / Lauren Langman
  • Action and reaction : response to Bradford / John Levi Martin
  • Explaining social action revisited : a reply to John Levi Martin / John Bradford.

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