Modern Social Theory

by Layder; DEREK

• ISBN13: 9781857283853
• ISBN10: 1857283856
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book provides a challenge to the recent post-positivist orthodoxy in social analysis, outlining a theory of social domains which re-establishes the importance of the wider settings and contexts of society.

Table of Contents

Preface
Outline of the theory of social domains	p. 1
Power and emotion	p. 13
Some basic propositions	p. 19
Coda	p. 28
The contours of everyday life	p. 29
Language, communication and self-identity	p. 29
Awareness, self-deception and emotion	p. 33
Decentring the subject: the role of discourse	p. 42
Psychobiography: subjective careers	p. 47
Face-to-face conduct: the actor's perspective	p. 52
Scheff on emotion and social interaction	p. 56
Encounters and trust	p. 62
Trust, self and ontological security	p. 67
Conclusion: the person and social encounters	p. 73
The social fabric examined	p. 76
Preview of concepts and issues	p. 76
Some key terms and concepts	p. 82
The nature and modes of situated activity	p. 88
Habermas's lifeworld - system distinction	p. 99
Social domains and lifeworld - system interlocks	p. 105
Settings and the duality of social relations	p. 110
Social systems, fields of activity and contextual resources	p. 114
Culture, ideology and discourse	p. 118
Resources, social activity and discourse	p. 122
The nature and analysis of discourse	p. 126
Situated activity and social systems	p. 133
The social fabric: some preliminary conclusions	p. 145
Power and control in modernity	p. 147
Foucault and the nature of modern power	p. 148
Implications of Foucault's view of power	p. 151
Giddens on power	p. 164
The dialectic of control	p. 166
Habermas and systemic power	p. 172
Power as multi-form and interlocking	p. 174
Conclusion: power and everyday encounters	p. 189
Creativity and constraint in social life	p. 190
The nature of social constraints	p. 191
Discourse and social reproduction	p. 203
Goffman and the interaction order	p. 210
Goffman and the "loose-coupling" of social orders	p. 216
The multi-form nature of social processes	p. 220
The creation and replication of society and social life	p. 227
Conclusion: creativity and constraint in social life	p. 239
Conclusion	p. 241
Encounters, subjectivity and integration	p. 241
Contours of the theory of social domains	p. 246
Bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 261
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