This book addresses the manifold crisis of current societies and understands it as a failure of normative social structuration. Thanks to the assessment of the political outcomes of failing social structuration the book turns to a discussion of the development of possible emancipation paths in the form of ‘transformative social action’;
Gregor Fitzi is Associated Researcher at the Centre Georg Simmel, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. The manifold crisis of complex societies.- 3. The malaise of normative societal structuration.- 4. Economic liberalism and social fragmentation.- 5. Evidences in structure theory.- 6. Troubles in action theory.- 7. Shifting legitimacy: the theoretical issue of social validity.- 8. Consequences in structure theory.- 9. Conclusions in sociological diagnosis.- 10. Political Outcomes.