03650nam a2200421Ia 4500 bslw09002279 UtOrBLW 20171018091352.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 130122s2012 enka o 000 0 eng d 9781781900352 (electronic bk.) : �67.95 ; �97.95 ; $124.95 UtOrBLW UtOrBLW H62 .T44 2012 JHB bicssc J bicssc SOC026000 bisacsh SOC000000 bisacsh 303 300.72 23 Theorizing modern society as a dynamic process [electronic resource] / edited by Harry F. Dahms, Lawrence Hazelrigg. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2012. 1 online resource (xxvii, 284 p.) : ill. Current perspectives in social theory, 0278-1204 ; v. 30 Toward bridging analytics and dialectics : nonergodic processes and turning points in dynamic models of social change with illustrations from labor movement history / Larry W. Isaac, Paul F. Lipold -- Adorno, advocate of the nonidentical : an introduction / Albrecht Wellmer -- Developments of analytical logic and dialectical logic with regard to the study of process dynamics / Lawrence Hazelrigg -- Communication, language, and the emergence of social orders / John Hamilton Bradford -- Culture, theory, and critique : Marx, Durkheim, and human science / Michael E. Brown, Jeffrey A. Halley -- Sociality-normativity-morality : the explanatory strategy of G�unter Dux's historico-genetic theory / Heinz-J�urgen Niedenzu -- Politics disembodied and deterritorialized : the internet as human rights resource / Benjamin Gregg -- Civil society and the state in the neoliberal era : dynamics of friends and enemies / Jon Shefner, Harry F. Dahms -- The social construction of the European society / Georg Vobruba. While it was evident to the classics of social theory that modern societies are highly dynamic forms of social organization, and that this dynamic nature must be reflected explicitly and confronted directly in modes of analysis across the social sciences, over the course of the twentieth century, the acknowledgement of this fact has been weakening. As the social sciences became increasingly concerned with issues of professionalization and standards of validity inspired by more established disciplines, especially the natural sciences and economics, the focus on dynamic processes gave way to efforts to illuminate structural (i.e., static) features of modern social life. In recent decades, however, this preoccupation with structure has begun to give way to more process-oriented research orientations. In part, this renewed interest in dynamics rather than statics is reflective of the growing influence of Continental European traditions, especially in Germany and France. In this follow-up volume to "Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes (vol. 27)", the emphasis is placed on recent trends in Continental European social theory, and on the importance of political analyses to theorizing modern societies. Social Science Sociology General. bisacsh Social Science General. bisacsh Sociology. bicssc Society & social sciences. bicssc Social sciences Research. Social sciences Philosophy. Dahms, Harry F. Hazelrigg, Lawrence E. 9781781900345 Current perspectives in social theory ; v. 30. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0278-1204/30 222715 222715