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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Clark, Jon
• Modgil, Celia
• Modgil, Sohan

Titel

ANTHONY GIDDENS: CONSENSUS AND CONTROVERSY

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

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Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A collection of papers, criticisms, & responses relating to the contributions of Anthony Giddens to sociology, published as part of the Falmer Sociology Series (Jon Clark, series editor), & presented in THREE PARTS, encompassing XI SECTIONS, which include 22 Chpts, accompanied by a Bibliography. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION - opens the vol with SECTIONS I & II: (I) EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION - presents (1) Jon Clark, Celia Modgil, & Sohan Modgil -- Anthony Giddens: Consensus and Controversy. (II) GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS - includes (2) Gianfranco Poggi -- Anthony Giddens and "The Classics"; & (3) Jon Clark -- Anthony Giddens, Sociology and Modern Social Theory. PART TWO: CONSENSUS AND CONTROVERSY - presents SECTIONS III-XI: (III) STRUCTURATION THEORY - offers (4) Ira J. Cohen -- Structuration Theory and Social Order: Five Issues in Brief; (5) Arthur Stinchcombe -- Milieu and Structure Updated: A Critique of the Theory of Structuration; & Interchange: Cohen Replies to Stinchcombe, & Stinchcombe Replies to Cohen, in which Cohen asserts the utility of the theoretically generic concepts with which Giddens's theory of structuration is articulated, in response to Stinchcombe's demand for greater empirical specification, while Stinchcombe expresses concern about the prospects for connecting a symbolic order of the kind that Cohen derives from Giddens's work with concrete problems of praxis. (IV) AGENCY AND STRUCTURE - includes (6) William Outhwaite -- Agency and Structure; (7) Margaret Archer -- Human Agency and Social Structure: A Critique of Giddens; & Interchange: Outhwaite Replies to Archer, & Archer Replies to Outhwaite, in which, in response to Archer's claims, Outhwaite asserts that Giddens is indeed capable of distinguishing responsible from (structurally) determined action, while Archer, in response to Outhwaite's criticisms of her analytical dualism & preference for morphogenesis over Giddens's structuration, insists her approach better permits the study of interactions between social structures & individual agency. (V) FUNCTIONALISM - (8) Hans Joas -- Giddens's Critique of Functionalism; (9) Jonathan H. Turner -- Giddens's Analysis of Functionalism: A Critique; & Interchange: Joas Replies to Turner, & Turner Replies to Joas, in which both Joas & Turner note their substantial agreement with Giddens on functionalism's explanatory failure, though Joas criticizes Turner for too closely assimilating Giddens's own approach to that of Parsons. (VI) TIME AND SPACE - offers (10) Allan Pred -- Context and Bodies in Flux: Some Comments on Space and Time in the Writings of Anthony Giddens; (11) Gregor McLennan -- The Temporal and the Temporizing in Structuration Theory; & Interchange: Pred Replies to McLennan, & McLennan Replies to Pred, in which Pred accuses McLennan of excessive emphasis on Giddens's use of temporal terms to the detriment of any account of spatial location in the approach to structuration theory, while McLennan criticizes Pred's identification of Giddens's approach to space & time with a "new discourse" for its vagueness. (VII) INTERPRETIVE THEORY/HERMENEUTICS - includes (12) Hamish F. Dickie-Clark -- Hermeneutics and Giddens's Theory of Structuration; (13) Susan Hekman -- Hermeneutics and the Crisis of Social Theory: A Critique of Giddens's Epistemology; & Interchange: Dickie-Clark Replies to Hekman, & Hekman Replies to Dickie-Clark, in which Dickie-Clark expresses misgivings about Hekman's emphasis on Giddens's perpetuation of the agent/structure dichotomy, & Hekman criticizes Dickie-Clark's identification of Giddens's interpretive theory with Hans Gadamer's theory of the fusion of horizons. (VIII) CLASS STRUCTURE AND CLASS ANALYSIS - presents (14) Dennis Wrong -- Giddens on Classes and Class Structure; (15) John Urry -- Giddens on Social Class: A Critique; & Interchange: Wrong replies to Urry, & Urry Replies to Wrong, in which Wrong insists that Urry judges Giddens by inappropriate standards, expecting of him greater predictive abilities & more full-blown theoretical alternatives to Marxism than any sociologist might reasonably produce, & Urry replies that Wrong has misconstrued the broad scope of many of Giddens's claims, whence the high standards by which his theory must be judged are derived. (IX) HISTORICAL MATERIALISM - offers (16) Lewis A. Coser -- Giddens on Historical Materialism; (17) Tom Bottomore -- Giddens's View of Historical Materialism; & Interchange: Coser Replies to Bottomore, & Bottomore Replies to Coser, in which Coser claims Bottomore, in his defense of Marxism against the challenge posed by Giddens, has made too many concessions for him to retain a coherent position, & Bottomore asserts Coser's neglect of the degree of opposition between Giddens & Marx, which he locates in Giddens's rejection of the materialist conception of history. (X) THEORIES OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE - includes (18) Derek Gregory -- "Grand Maps of History": Structural Theory and Social Change; (19) Derek Sayer -- Reinventing the Wheel: Anthony Giddens, Karl Marx and Social Change; & Interchange: Gregory Replies to Sayer, & Sayer Replies to Gregory, in which Gregory, while agreeing with Sayer's taxonomy of different alternative readings of Marx, takes issue with his rejection of structuration theory as an unnecessary abstraction in the empirical study of history, & Sayer criticizes Giddens, as endorsed by Gregory, for the spurious instantiations of insufficiently grounded abstraction in his "grand maps of history." (XI) THE NATION-STATE AND THE MODERN WORLD SYSTEM - presents (20) Christopher Dandeker -- The Nation-State and the Modern World System; (21) John Breuilly -- The Nation-State and Violence: A Critique of Giddens; & Interchange: Dandeker Replies to Breuilly, & Breuilly Replies to Dandeker, in which Dandeker defends Giddens against Breuilly's charge that he fails to adequately address those major questions plaguing an analysis of political & military power that he himself identifies, & asserts Giddens's successful identification of the modern state, while Breuilly asserts Dandeker's neglect of his methodological (as opposed to substantive) critique of Giddens. PART THREE: CONCLUSION - closes with (22) Anthony Giddens -- Structuration Theory and Sociological Analysis -- offers summary responses to several contributions to the vol & summarizes the present status of his structuration theory. Anthony Giddens: Outline Intellectual Biography. Bibliog. A. Levine