Neofunctionalism and After: Collected Readings

Neofunctionalism and After brings together for the first time in one volume all of Alexander′s writings on neofunctionalism, the present volume also contains two chapters written especially for this publication. The first, "From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory," is an autobiographical reconstruction of the origins of this movement. The other, "Action, Culture, and Civil Society," is an ambitious theoretical argument in which Alexander asserts that the internal contradictions of neofunctionalism inevitably lead to a new movement of theoretical reconstruction that goes beyond it.

Spis treści:
Series Editor′s Preface.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Origins of a Theoretical Project:.
1. From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory.
2. Traditions and Competition: Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Cumulation.
Part II: Reinventing Parsons/Reconstructing His Tradition:.
3. Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition.
4. Parsons′s Structure in American Sociology.
5. Formal Sociology Is not Multidimensional: Breaking the Code in Parsons′s Fragment on Simmel.
6. On Choosing Ones Intellectual Predecessors: Why Charles Camic is Wrong About Parsons′s Early Work.
7. Structure, Value, Action: What Did the Early Parsons Mean and What Should He Have Said, Instead?.
Part III: After Neofunctionalism: Its Contribution to Theory Creation Today: .
8. The New Theoretical Movement.
9. Action, Culture and Civil Society.
Name Index.
Subject Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Jeffrey C. Alexander is a Professor at the depatment of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has been a Fellow at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies and at SCASSS in Sweden. His other books include Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory since World War Two (Columbia, 1987); Action and its Environments (Columbia, 1988); Fin–de–Siécle Social Theory (Verso, 1995); Neofunctionalism (Sage, 1985), Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates (with Steven Seidman, Cambridge, 1990).

Okładka tylna:
Neofunctionalism and After brings together for the first time in one volume all of Alexander′s writings on neofunctionalism, the present volume also contains two chapters written especially for this publication. The first, "From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory," is an autobiographical reconstruction of the origins of this movement. The other, "Action, Culture, and Civil Society," is an ambitious theoretical argument in which Alexander asserts that the internal contradictions of neofunctionalism inevitably lead to a new movement of theoretical reconstruction that goes beyond it.