Social creativity, collective subjectivity and contemporary modernity
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Social creativity, collective subjectivity and contemporary modernity
Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 2000
- : uk
- : us
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Bibliography: p. 174-196
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The axis of this book is the articulation between the concept of collective subjectivity and the themes of social evolution and social creativity. It also includes contemporary modernity and social change on the other. Drawing on theoretical ideas on reflexivity, creativity and history, it proposes a discussion of the fundamental aspects of contemporary society, dealing with global modernity, economic sociology and social policy, via concrete discussions about Brazil and Britain.
Table of Contents
- Nature, social systems and collective causality
- action and movement, memory and social creativity
- the logic of scientific research
- evolution and history
- modernity, tradition and reflexivity in contemporary Brazil
- the forms of co-ordination of the economy dialectics and modernity, autonomy and solidarity
- by way of conclusion - critical theory at the turn of the century.
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