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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... moral world . " This corporate moral universe aims at a " corporate colonization of the self , ” in Casey's words , in which " team , ” " family , " and " community " become discursive harnesses of worker energy and identification.38 By ...
... moral world . " This corporate moral universe aims at a " corporate colonization of the self , ” in Casey's words , in which " team , ” " family , " and " community " become discursive harnesses of worker energy and identification.38 By ...
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... moral community . " He elaborates on the idea of a moral community as follows : Every value to which an actor is committed can be characterized in three major ways : Its substance , the intensity of the commitment , and — a dimension ...
... moral community . " He elaborates on the idea of a moral community as follows : Every value to which an actor is committed can be characterized in three major ways : Its substance , the intensity of the commitment , and — a dimension ...
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... moral claim speaks for itself , effectively and directly . One does not sense that a reason is needed , nor does one demand some consequentialist explanation or sociological analysis . The moral concept has the kind of special power the ...
... moral claim speaks for itself , effectively and directly . One does not sense that a reason is needed , nor does one demand some consequentialist explanation or sociological analysis . The moral concept has the kind of special power the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Cultural Dimensions of The Active Society | 23 |
The Cybernetic Institutionalist | 53 |
Copyright | |
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