Neofunctionalism
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Neofunctionalism
（Key issues in sociological theory, 1）
Sage Publications, c1985
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Neofunctionalism is the first volume in the series Key Issues in Sociological Theory and takes account of the developments in functionalist theory over the last twenty years. Reconsidering the work of Parsons, Merton, Homans et al during the 1930s and 1940s, Alexander suggests that functionalism is more than just a set of concepts, methods, models or ideologies. He argues that it is a tradition, that it has emerged from recent critical reflection as more a broad intellectual tendency than a theory. The papers in this volume, all original contributions by scholars from different sociological backgrounds, exemplify these tendencies.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Jeffrey Alexander
PART ONE: INTERPRETATION AND THEORETICAL BOUNDARIES
The Practical Groundwork for Critical Theory - David Sciulli
Bringing Parsons to Habermas (and vice-versa)
Prolegomena to Any Future Theory of Societal Crisis - Mark Gould
Predicting Technological Innovation - Ino Rossi
A Dialectical Reinterpretation of the Four-Function Paradigm
PART TWO: EXPLANATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Systematic Qualities and Boundaries of Societies - S N Eisenstadt
Some Theoretical Considerations
Evaluating the Model of Structural Differentiation in Relation to Educational Change in the Nineteenth Century - Neil J Smelser
Uneven Structural Differentiation - Paul Colomy
Toward a Comparative Approach
Modernity and Its Discontents - Frank J Lechner
Revitalization Syndromes in Action-Theoretical Perspective
PART THREE: POLITICS AND RESPONSIBILITY
Totalitarian and Liberal Democracy - Jeffrey Prager
Two Types of Modern Political Orders
Beyond Parsons' Theory of the Professions - Bernard Barber
Differentiation, Consensus, and Conflict - Richard Munch
Reflections on Neofunctionalism in Smelser, Colomy, Lechner, and Barber
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