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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : Social Morphogenesis [Texte électronique] / Margaret S. Archer, Editor
Publication : Dordrecht : Springer, [2013]
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
"The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we
explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces
such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors
examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in
a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction in morphostasis (negative feedback
that restores or reproduces the form of the social order) best captures the process
involved. This volume resists proclaiming a new social formation as so many books
written by empiricists have done by extrapolating from empirical data. Until we can
convincingly demonstrate that a new generative mechanism is at work, it is premature
to argue what accounts for the global changes that are taking place and where they
will lead. More concisely we seek to answer the question whether or not current social
change can be regarded as social morphogenesis. Only then, in the next volumes will
the same team of authors be able to remove the question mark."--Publisher's website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Archer, Margaret S. (1943-....). Fonction indéterminée
Sujet(s) : Changement social
Évolution sociale
Indice(s) Dewey :
303.4 (23e éd.) = Changement social
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789400761285
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44722152n
Notice n° :
FRBNF44722152
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society / Margaret S. Archer.
; Part I: Social Morphogenesis and Societal Transformation?. Morphogenesis and Social
Change / Douglas V. Porpora ; The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea of a Morphogenetic
Society: The Role of Regularities / Andrea M. Maccarini ; Emergence and Morphogenesis:
Causal Reduction and Downward Causation? / Tony Lawson ; Morphogenesis, Continuity
and Change in the International Political System / Colin Wight. ; Part II: Social
Formations and Their Re-formation. Self-Organization: What Is It, What Isn't It and
What's It Got to Do with Morphogenesis? / Kate Forbes-Pitt ; Self-Organisation as
the Mechanism of Development and Evolution in Social Systems / Wolfgang Hofkirchner
; Morphogenic Society: Self-Government and Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors
/ Margaret S. Archer. ; Part III: Social Networks: Linkages or Bonds?. Network Analysis
and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustra