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9780750705523

Alain Touraine

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750705523

  • ISBN10:

    0750705523

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-11-01
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The seventeen essays in this volume discuss the work of Alain Touraine and consider his contribution to the social sciences. The text includes his most recent thinkings on the market and communities,

Table of Contents

"Sociologue du Travail" proudhonian pessimist
skills flexibility and effort in a post-factory world
evidence from Britain
Touraine and the method of sociological intervention
movements of modernity
some questions of theory method and interpretation
the sociology of Alain Touraine
a modernist look at post-industrialization and the ambivalence of social movements
social movements in a comparative perspective
situating Alain Touraine
the study of solidarity and the social theory of Alain Touraine
discource as power
a second look at confrontational adaptation
politics the political and the theory of social movements
collective action culture and civil society
secularising updating inverting revising and displacing the classical model of social movements
Alain Touraine's conceptions of modernity
social action and the production of society
Touraine's subject versus Rawl's "Homo Politicus" and Habermas' "Homo Commicans"
modernity the subject and the supervision of sociology
a scoiology of the subject
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