Alain Touraine /
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| Imprint: | London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | vi, 381 p. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Falmer sociology series ; 5 Consensus and controversy. Falmer sociology series ; 5. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2507735 |
Table of Contents:
- "Sociologue du Travail" proudhonian pessimist
- skills flexibility and effort in a post-factory world
- evidence from Britain
- Touraine and the method of sociological intervention
- movements of modernity
- some questions of theory method and interpretation
- the sociology of Alain Touraine
- a modernist look at post-industrialization and the ambivalence of social movements
- social movements in a comparative perspective
- situating Alain Touraine
- the study of solidarity and the social theory of Alain Touraine
- discource as power
- a second look at confrontational adaptation
- politics the political and the theory of social movements
- collective action culture and civil society
- secularising updating inverting revising and displacing the classical model of social movements
- Alain Touraine's conceptions of modernity
- social action and the production of society
- Touraine's subject versus Rawl's "Homo Politicus" and Habermas' "Homo Commicans"
- modernity the subject and the supervision of sociology
- a scoiology of the subject