Social Morphogenesis
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 (posit...
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| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6128-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Social Morphogenesis and the Prospects of Morphogenic Society; Margaret S. Archer
- PART�I.�SOCIAL�CHANGE AS MORPHOGENESIS.-�Chapter 2. Morphogenesis and Social Change; Douglas V. Porpora
- Chapter 3. The Morphogenetic Approach and the Idea� of Morphogenetic Society. The Role of Regularities; Andrea M. Maccarini
- Chapter 4. Emergence and Morphognesis: Causal Reduction and Downward Causation; Tony Lawson
- Chapter 5 Morphogenesis, Continuity and Change in the International Political System; Colin Wight
- PART II. SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND THEIR RE-FORMATION
- Chapter 6. Self-Organization: What is it, What isn't it and What's it Got to Do with Morphogenesis; Kate Forbes-Pitt
- Chapter 7. Self-Organization as the Mechanism of Development and Evolution in Social Systems; Wolfgang Hofkirchner
- Chapter 8. Morphogenetic�Society: Self-Government and Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors; Maragaret S. Archer.-�PART III. SOCIAL NETWORKS: LINKAGES OR BONDS
- Chapter 9. Network Analysis and Morphogenesis: A Neo-Structural Exploration and Illustration; Emmanuel Lazega
- Chapter 10. Authority's Hidden Networks: Obligations, Roles and the Morphogenesis of Authority; Ismael Al-Amoudi
- Chapter 11. Morphogenesis and Social Networks: Relational Steering not Mechanical Feedback; Pierpaolo Donati.