Social Theory for Old and New Modernities: Essays on Society and Culture, 1976-2005

Ferrarotti

doi:10.5771/9780739130100

Summary

Franco Ferrarotti is widely regarded as the founder of postwar Italian sociology. Along with such figures as Leo Strauss, Edward Shils, David Riesman, Robert Merton, and Ralf Dahrendorf, he established the terms and texts of contemporary sociology after the Second World War.Social Theory for Old and New Modernities is a collection of Ferrarotti's essays that brings his work back into the forefront of sociology. His writings, on theory and ethnographic research, on immigration and multiculturalism, on religion and secularization, speak directly to today's social and political dilemmas and crises and offer sociologists a critical and enlivened vision of their discipline.

Maria Macioti's Introduction locates Franco Ferrarotti's work within his remarkable life, that of a politician, intellectual, and social scientist living amidst the social and political changes of the last half of the twentieth century, anticipating the changes and challenges of the twenty-first.

E. Doyle McCarthy is the editor of this collection.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1955
Copyright Year: 1955
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-6104-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-3010-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 2
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Editor's Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction by Maria I. Macioti No access
1. 1. The Modern World and Its Destiny No access
2. 2. Counter-Cultures and Postmodernism No access
3. 3. Beyond the Authoritarian Personality No access
4. 4. Civil Society and State Structures in Creative Tension No access
5. 5. The City and Civil Society No access
6. 6. New Approaches to Social Movements in Western Europe No access
7. 7. The Culture of Violence No access
8. 8. Social Marginality and Violence in Neo-Urban Societies No access
1. 9. Modern Rationality and the Paradox of the Sacred No access
2. 10. History and Sociology No access
3. 11. The Lessons of Positivism No access
4. 12. American and European Social Science No access
5. 13. Biography and the Social Sciences No access
6. 14. Thorstein Veblen and his Critics No access
7. 15. The Social Type of the Businessman No access
1. 16. Constantinian Christianity and the Future of the Catholic Church No access
2. 17. The Media Pope No access
3. 18. Reflections on America No access
4. 19. Time and Its Social Transformations No access
5. 20. On Photography No access
About the Editor No access Pages 337 - 2