Alain TouraineJon Clark (Ph. D.), Marco Diani Contributors from three continents debate Touraine's work in the social sciences, discussing themes including the theory and practice of social movements, the development of sociology in France, skill and flexibility in a post-factory world, the method of sociological intervention, and theories of democracy, modernity, and post- industrial society. Concludes with a chapter by Touraine on his most recent thinking on the social sciences. Includes a full bibliography of his published books and papers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Sociologue du Travail Proudhonian Pessimist | 17 |
Evidence from | 33 |
Touraine and the Method of Sociological Intervention | 55 |
Some Questions of Theory Method | 77 |
A Modernist Look at Post | 93 |
Situating Alain | 111 |
The Study of Solidarity and the Social Theory of Alain Touraine | 127 |
Alain Touraine and Social | 173 |
Secularizing Updating | 205 |
Alain Touraines Conceptions of Modernity | 235 |
Social Action and the Production of Society | 251 |
Modernity the Subject and the Subversion of Sociology | 275 |
A Sociology of the Subject | 291 |
Curriculum Vitae and Publications of Alain Touraine | 343 |
List of Contributors | 363 |
A Second Look at Confrontational Adaptation | 145 |
Politics the Political and the Theory of Social Movements | 159 |
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