The Social fabric : dimensions and issues /
The Social fabric : dimensions and issues /
edited by James F. Short, Jr.
- Beverly Hills, California : Sage Publications, Incorporation, c1986
- 366 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The social fabric as metaphor and reality -- From structure to order -- Individual choice and the social order -- Institutionalized public memory -- A conceptual framework for measuring norms -- The problem of order -- Orwell as macrosociologist -- War and peace in Oceania -- The iron fist and the velvet glove : totalitarian potentials within democratic structures -- To what degree is a social system dependent on its resource base? -- The limits and possibilities of government : a perspective from sociology of law -- Government and the making of social structure -- Wheeling and annealing : federal and multidivisional control -- Citizen soldier versus economic man -- Social history and the life-course perspective on the family : a view from the bridge -- Religion and the social fabric -- Media linkages of the social fabric -- Sociology and the nuclear debate -- Uses and control of knowledge : implications for the social fabric.
This volume is based on papers prepared for plenary and thematic sessions at the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, held in San Antonio, Texas, August 27-31, 1984. This book's title was the theme of that meeting. The announcement of this theme, published in the Association's newsletter, Footnotes, challenged ASA members and others to address such questions as the following: What have we to say about the nature of the social fabric, its strengths, and its weaknesses? What is it that holds societies together despite conflicts of interest? How do we account for the seeming paradox of the persistence of institutional forms in modern societies in the face of extreme vulnerability (to terrorism, for example) and rapid change? How, and with what consequences, is the balance struck between coercion and cooperation, between centralized control and local autonomy, between leaders (and would-be leaders) and constituencies, between experts (and would-be experts) and those whose lives depend on specialized knowledge?
803927894
SOCIOLOGY
HM 13 .S63 1986
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The social fabric as metaphor and reality -- From structure to order -- Individual choice and the social order -- Institutionalized public memory -- A conceptual framework for measuring norms -- The problem of order -- Orwell as macrosociologist -- War and peace in Oceania -- The iron fist and the velvet glove : totalitarian potentials within democratic structures -- To what degree is a social system dependent on its resource base? -- The limits and possibilities of government : a perspective from sociology of law -- Government and the making of social structure -- Wheeling and annealing : federal and multidivisional control -- Citizen soldier versus economic man -- Social history and the life-course perspective on the family : a view from the bridge -- Religion and the social fabric -- Media linkages of the social fabric -- Sociology and the nuclear debate -- Uses and control of knowledge : implications for the social fabric.
This volume is based on papers prepared for plenary and thematic sessions at the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, held in San Antonio, Texas, August 27-31, 1984. This book's title was the theme of that meeting. The announcement of this theme, published in the Association's newsletter, Footnotes, challenged ASA members and others to address such questions as the following: What have we to say about the nature of the social fabric, its strengths, and its weaknesses? What is it that holds societies together despite conflicts of interest? How do we account for the seeming paradox of the persistence of institutional forms in modern societies in the face of extreme vulnerability (to terrorism, for example) and rapid change? How, and with what consequences, is the balance struck between coercion and cooperation, between centralized control and local autonomy, between leaders (and would-be leaders) and constituencies, between experts (and would-be experts) and those whose lives depend on specialized knowledge?
803927894
SOCIOLOGY
HM 13 .S63 1986