Etzioni's critical functionalism [electronic resource] : communitarian origins and principles / by David Sciulli
- Author
- Sciulli, David
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xxv, 504 pages ; 25 cm.
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- Series
- Restrictions on Access
- Available to subscribing member institutions only.
- Contents
- Part I Theoretical foundations -- Normative order in organizations -- Etzioni's functionalism and societal constitutionalism -- Order in democratic societies : Etzioni's three major conceptual decisions -- Expectations for advanced democracies -- Defining an active society : pushing American pragmatism and optimism to the edge -- Overcoming obstacles to activeness, I: extending consensus and control -- Overcoming obstacles to activeness, II: recruiting and socializing leaders -- Policy for an active society -- Second thoughts: trouble at home -- Declining optimism : an immodest agenda in a global economy -- Ongoing failure : breakdowns in primary socialization -- Increasing criticism : corruption in electoral politics and national governance -- Rebuilding America's cultural and social psychological infrastructure -- The economy's "normative capsule" : foundations of socio-economics -- Interpersonal community and institutional community -- Types of interpersonal community, I: shaming and privileging -- Community -- Types of interpersonal community, II: responsive community -- Moral commitments of interpersonal community.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9004190430 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004190436 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004190443 (electronic book) - Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [487]-495) and index.
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