A responsive society : collected essays on guiding deliberate social change
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A responsive society : collected essays on guiding deliberate social change
（The Jossey-Bass management series）（The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series）
Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book brings together in one volume 17 essays on the dynamics of social change published in a wide array of journals over the course of Amitai Etzioni's career. Applying sociological methods of study to seemingly disparate disciplines, from ethics to economics, politics to genetics, Etzioni uncovers important interrelationships between these fields and presents an integrated perspective on the powerful economic, social, and political forces and structures that allow societies to respond to environmental changes or to their members' needs and demands. He argues that an innate sense of right and wrong drives all human behaviour - especially efforts to spur social change - and shows how understanding this inborn moral sense will give individuals and societies the tools they need to weigh the right and wrong of public policies and make choices that truly serve the greater good.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The need for social change: facing the slings and arrows - personal reflections on a life of social activism
- conditions for guiding change
- author's note
- a theory of societal guidance. Part 2 The elements of social change: decision making and social change - author's note
- mixed scanning revisited
- rationality is anti-entropic
- normative-affective factors - toward a new decision-making model
- the responsive community - author's note
- liberals and communitarians
- basic human needs, alienation, and inauthenticity
- polity and the public interest - author's note
- special interest groups versus constituency representation
- the fight against fraud and abuse - analyzing constituent support. Part 3 The structure of social change: encapsulation and self-sustaining systems - author's note
- encapsulated competition
- on solving social problems - inducements or coercion?
- unification and integration of systems - author's note
- on self-encapsulating conflicts
- a paradigm for the study of political unification
- the epigenesis of political communities at the international level
- European unification - a strategy of change. Part 4 The ethics of social change: ethics and change - author's note
- toward deontological social sciences
- the case for a multiple-utility conception
- the moral dimension in policy analysis.
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