Alain TouraineJon Clark, Marco Diani First published in 2004. The seventeen essays in this volume discuss the work of Alain Touraine and consider his contribution to the social sciences. The text includes his most recent thinkings on the market and communities. |
Contents
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| 17 | |
Evidence from | 33 |
Touraine and the Method of Sociological Intervention | 55 |
Some Questions of Theory Method | 77 |
A Modernist Look at Post | 93 |
Situating Alain | 111 |
The Study of Solidarity and the Social Theory of Alain Touraine | 127 |
Alain Touraine and Social | 173 |
Secularizing Updating | 205 |
Alain Touraines Conceptions of Modernity | 235 |
Social Action and the Production of Society | 251 |
Modernity the Subject and the Subversion of Sociology | 275 |
A Sociology of the Subject | 291 |
Curriculum Vitae and Publications of Alain Touraine | 343 |
List of Contributors | 363 |
A Second Look at Confrontational Adaptation | 145 |
Politics the Political and the Theory of Social Movements | 159 |
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