| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) |
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Postmodern social futures |
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Postmodern social futures.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Theory in a Time of Fragmentation: Toward the Fusion of Horizons 1 -- From Durkheim's Detour to Goffman's Gulch: The Need for Re-Framing Social Theory 1 -- Pragmaticism: The Scientific Realist Completion of Durkheim's Project 15 -- Global Cultural Process: The Evolution of Interpretant Form 25 -- Chapter 1 Agency: Meaning, Perspectivism, and Pragmatics 63 -- Rationality and the Problem of Meaning 65 -- Semantic Alternative: Contingency, Language, and Perspectivism 72 -- Pragmatics in Context: Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences 78 -- Chapter 2 Social Power: The Signifying Context of Communicative Meaning 103 -- Structure and Power: Family Resemblances and Conceptual Relations 104 -- Domination: The "First Face" of Power 109 -- Power's Other "Faces": From the Empirical Mismeasure of "Power Over" to the Theoretical Definition of "Power To" 114 -- Social Order of Puissance: Negotiation, Communication, and Closure 119 -- Chapter 3 Empowerment: The Social Construction of the Self 133 -- Scientific Logic of Abstraction 135 -- Social Theory's First Encounter with the Mirror Concept: Cooley and Mead 140 -- Social Theory's Second Encounter with the Mirror Concept: Lacan 149 -- Peircean Pragmatics and Durkheimian Internalization 156 -- Chapter 4 Formal System: The Autopoietic Evolution of Pragmatic (Interpretant) Codes 167 -- System, Evolution, and the Habits of Knowledge 172 -- Modernization as Code-Transition from Filiation to Calibration 192 -- Globalization and "Postmodernity" 229 -- Conclusion, 2000 C.E.: Globality as "Semantic Regionalization"? 254 |
| Summary |
Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
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| SUBJECT |
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 fast |
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Peirce, Charles S. swd |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Globalization.
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Pragmatism.
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globalism.
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pragmatism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Globalization
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Pragmatism
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Sociology -- Philosophy
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Globalisierung
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Pragmatismus
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001020456 |
| ISBN |
9781461617211 |
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1461617219 |
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1299136311 |
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9781299136311 |
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