The Active Society Revisited

by McWilliams, Wilson Carey; Adloff, Frank; Boyd, Richard; Buis-Michaux, Melissa; Deneen, Patrick J.; Green, William C.; Gutterman, David S.; Hale, Dennis; Joas, Hans; Lehman, Edward; McCarraher, Eugene; McWilliams, Wilson Carey; Miller, Mike; Pilch, Frances

• ISBN13: 9780742549142
• ISBN10: 0742549143
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. In this new collection of essays, Wilson Carey McWilliams brings together scholars in a range of disciplines to analyze the significance and shortcomings of this important work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Wilson Carey McWilliams
Macroscopic Action: On Amitai Etzioni's Contribution to Social Theory	13	(10)
Hans Joas
The Cultural Dimensions of The Active Society	23	(30)
Edward W. Lehman
The Cybernetic Institutionalist	53	(18)
Fabio Rojas
The Constitution of Activity---Etzioni's Foundation of Social Theory in Collective Action and Collective Actors	71	(18)
Frank Adloff
The Actively Drifting Society	89	(28)
Joseph H. Spear
Communitarianism: The Highest State of Progressivism---The Active Society Revisited	117	(20)
Dennis Hale
The Teamwork of Sisyphus: Post-Fordist Capitalism, Corporate Culture, and Etzioni's ``Active Society''	137	(30)
Eugene McCarraher
Membership and Belonging: Etzioni's ``Authenticity'' and the Existential Challenges of Liberalism	167	(26)
Richard Boyd
Swing Low Sweet Chariot: Transformation and Religious Tradition	193	(16)
William C. Green
The Eagle and the Worm: The Active Society from a Community Organizer's Perspective	209	(14)
Mike Miller
Searching for Active Citizenship	223	(24)
David S. Gutterman
Melissa Buis Michaux
Courting Megalogues: Judicial Power in the Active Society	247	(14)
Paul A. Sracic
Community Formation, Gender Issues, and the Evolution of International Law: A Perspective on Amitai Etzioni's The Active Society	261	(24)
Frances T. Pilch
``Lighting Damp Logs'': Social Movements, Liberal Democracy, and the Politics of Transformation	285	(26)
Daniel J. Tichenor
From the Active Society to the Good Society: The Second Sailing of Amitai Etzioni	311	(22)
Patrick J. Deneen
The Active Society Revisited: A Response	333	(16)
Amitai Etzioni
Contributors	349