The Active Society RevisitedWilson C. McWilliams Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 - 352 pages The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. It is sociology in the grand tradition, with at least one foot outside its own time. In it, Etzioni confronts the great modern irony-- that setting out to become the masters of nature, humans become mastered by their own instruments-- championing the sense of agency and aiming to demonstrate that humanity can direct its own creations, or at least, that societies can aspire to a greater measure of authentic self-government. In this new collection of essays, Wilson Carey McWilliams brings together scholars in a range of disciplines to analyze the significance and shortcomings of this important work. They comment on the importance of Etzioni's contributions, the magnitude of his achievement, and the extent to which The Active Society speaks to contemporary social and political life. |
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... constitutional understandings governing , for example , search and seizure , can result in incriminating evidence being excluded from a trial . This might result in a less secure community.3 Nev- ertheless , in neither of these ...
... constitutional understandings governing , for example , search and seizure , can result in incriminating evidence being excluded from a trial . This might result in a less secure community.3 Nev- ertheless , in neither of these ...
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... constitutional amendment , and not by executive fiat . At his urging , the Republican platform of 1864 endorsed a constitutional amendment banning slavery nationwide . More than three decades after Garrison founded the AASS , complete ...
... constitutional amendment , and not by executive fiat . At his urging , the Republican platform of 1864 endorsed a constitutional amendment banning slavery nationwide . More than three decades after Garrison founded the AASS , complete ...
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... constitutional barriers to reform . " The whole con- ception of government when the United States became a nation was a mechanical conception of government , and the mechanical conception that underlay it was a Newtonian theory of the ...
... constitutional barriers to reform . " The whole con- ception of government when the United States became a nation was a mechanical conception of government , and the mechanical conception that underlay it was a Newtonian theory of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Cultural Dimensions of The Active Society | 23 |
The Cybernetic Institutionalist | 53 |
Copyright | |
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