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Archer, Margaret S.

Generative mechanisms transforming the social order

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Generative mechanisms transforming the social orderedited by Margaret S. Archer.
other author:	Archer, Margaret S.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2015.
Description:	viii, 248 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Social change.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13773-5
ISBN:	9783319137735 (electronic bk.)

Generative mechanisms transforming the social order
Generative mechanisms transforming the social order[electronic resource] /edited by Margaret S. Archer. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2015. - viii, 248 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Social morphogenesis,2198-1604. - Social morphogenesis..

Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Other Conceptions of Generative Mechanisms and Ours; Margaret S. Archer -- Part I. Conceptualising Mechanisms -- Chapter 2. Causal Mechanisms: Lessons from the Life Sciences; Philip Gorski -- Chapter 3. Mechanisms and Models; Some Examples from International Relations; Colin Wright -- Chapter 4. Social Mechanisms and Their Feedbacks; Pierpaolo Donati -- Part II. Venturing Morphogenetic Mechanisms -- Chapter 5. ''Mechanisms'' of the Build-Up of Information Society; Wolfgang Hofkirchner -- Chapter 6. Body Captors and Network Profiles: A Neo-Structural Note on Digitalized Social Control and Morphogenesis; Emmanuel Lazega -- Chapter 7. How Agency is Transformed in the Course of Social Transformation: Don't Forget the Double Morphogenesis; Margaret S. Archer -- Chapter 8. Turbulence and Relational Conjunctures: The Emergence of Morphogenic Environments; Andrea Maccarini -- Part III. Mechanisms and Morphostasis: Power of Life and Death -- Chapter 9. Why Don't Things Change? The Matter of Morphostasis; Douglas V. Porpora -- Chapter 10. The Modern Corporation: The Site of a Mechanism (of Global Social Change) that is Out-of-Control; Tony Lawson -- Chapter 11. Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation; Ismael Al-Amoudi and John Latsis. .

This volume examines how generative mechanisms emerge in the social order and their consequences. It does so in the light of finding answers to the general question posed in this book series: Will Late Modernity be replaced by a social formation that could be called Morphogenic Society? This volume clarifies what a 'generative mechanism' is, to achieve a better understanding of their social origins, and to delineate in what way such mechanisms exert effects within a current social formation, either stabilizing it or leading to changes potentially replacing it . The book explores questions about conjuncture, convergence and countervailing effects of morphogenetic mechanisms in order to assess their impact. Simultaneously, it looks at how products of positive feedback intertwine with the results of (morphostatic) negative feedback. This process also requires clarification, especially about the conditions under which morphostasis prevails over morphogenesis and vice versa. It raises the issue as to whether their co-existence can be other than short-lived. The volume addresses whether or not there also is a process of 'morpho-necrosis', i.e. the ultimate demise of certain morphostatic mechanisms, such that they cannot 'recover'. The book concludes that not only are generative mechanisms required to explain associations between variables involved in the replacement of Late Modernity by Morphogenic Society, but they are also robust enough to account for cases and times when such variables show no significant correlations.

ISBN: 9783319137735 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-13773-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

175259
Social change.

LC Class. No.: HM891

Dewey Class. No.: 303.44

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