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Index
Contents
Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part one Between positivism, idealism and voluntarism: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim
1 The convergence between Weber and Durkheim: Interpretation and explanation, the sacred and the profane
Introductory remarks
1.1 Max Weber: Adequacy of cause and meaning, religious ethics and world
1.2 Emile Durkheim: Causal and meaning analysis, the sacred and the profane
Concluding remarks
2 The divergence between Weber and Durkheim: Rational and affectual bases of modern social order
Introductory remarks
2.1 Intellectual rationalization and affectual universalization
2.2. The affectual foundation of modern social orders: Great Britain and the USA
2.3 Weber’s and Durkheim’s solutions to the problem of order in modern societies within the voluntaristic frame of reference
2.4 On the theory of voluntaristic order’s empirical specification
Concluding remarks
Part two Social order and individual autonomy: Emile Durkheim
3 Community and social order
3.1 The non-contractual foundations of contract
3.2 The communal anchoring of normative order
3.2.1 The internal structure of the community
3.2.1.1 The community code
3.2.1.2 The growing density and expansion of interaction
3.2.1.3 Monopolization of opportunity for need satisfaction by the community
3.2.1.4 Socialization and affective attachment
3.2.2 The external interpenetration of the community
Concluding remarks
4 Socialization and personality development
Introductory remarks
4.1 The integration of social order and individual autonomy as the central problem of action theory
4.2 The interpenetration of individual desires and social obligations. Emile Durkheim’s theoretical perspective and its convergence with classic theories of socialization
4.3 The development of the personality by socialization
4.3.1. Dimensions of personality development
4.3.2 The formation of personality dispositions
4.3.2.1 Stage I: Basic dispositions
4.3.2.2 Stage II: Derivative dispositions
4.4 Integration and malintegration between individual and society
Concluding remarks
Part three The unique nature, formation, development and structural problems of the modern social order: Max Weber
5 ‘Capitalism’ and ‘occidental rationalism’: Two perspectives on the analysis of the structural problems in modern societies
Introductory remarks
5.1 Commodity production, market association, alienation, and value antinomies
5.1.1 ‘Capitalism’ as a perspective on modern society: The law of value and alienation in commodity production
5.1.2 ‘Occidental rationalism’ as a perspective on modern society: Market association, the problem of scarcity, alienation and value antinomies
5.2 The self-expansion of capital, alienation of waged labor, the creation of value, determination of the price of labor, and antinomies between values
5.2.1 ‘Capitalism’ as a perspective on modern society: Labor as the source of capital’s self-expansion
5.2.2 ‘Occidental rationalism’ as a perspective on modern society: Wealth creation and the determination of the price of labor in the field of tension between the economic, political, cultural and communal spheres
5.3 Concluding remarks: Mediating between value antinomies instead of eliminating them
6 Via Parsons to Weber: From the theory of rationalization to the theory of interpenetration
Introductory remarks
6.1 Attempts at explaining modern occidental development: Theoretical retrogression
6.1.1 The theory of the civilizing process
6.1.2 Economic theory
6.1.3 Functionalistic systems theory
6.1.4 Idealistic-materialistic developmental logic
6.1.5 Variants in the interpretation of Max Weber’s explanation of modern occidental development
6.1.5.1 Power and conflict theory
6.1.5.2 The theory of rationalization
6.1.5.2.1 The ‘materialistic’ theory of rationalization
6.1.5.2.2 The ‘intellectualistic’ theory of rationalization
6.1.5.2.3 The ‘dialectic’ theory of rationalization
6.2 The frame of reference of action theory
6.2.1 The action space
6.2.2 The creation of order by interpenetration
6.3 Max Weber’s explanation of modern occidental development from the perspective of interpenetration
6.3.1 The unique quality of modern occidental development
6.3.2 Max Weber’s explanatory system viewed from the perspective of interpenetration
Concluding remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index
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