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Morphogenesis and the Crisis of Normativity
Margaret S. . Ed(S): Archer
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Hardback. Editor(s): Archer, Margaret S. Series: Social Morphogenesis. Num Pages: 303 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 619.
This volume explores the development and consequences of morphogenesis on normative regulation. It starts out by describing the great normative transformations from morphostasis, as the precondition of a harmonious relationship between legal validity and normative consensus in society, to morphogenesis, which tends to strongly undermine existing laws, norms, rules, rights and obligations because of the new variety it introduces. Next, it studies the decline of normative consensus resulting from the changes in the social contexts that made previous forms of normativity, based upon ‘habits, ‘habitus’ and ‘routine action’, unhelpfully misleading because they no longer constituted relevant guidelines to action. It ... Read more
This volume explores the development and consequences of morphogenesis on normative regulation. It starts out by describing the great normative transformations from morphostasis, as the precondition of a harmonious relationship between legal validity and normative consensus in society, to morphogenesis, which tends to strongly undermine existing laws, norms, rules, rights and obligations because of the new variety it introduces. Next, it studies the decline of normative consensus resulting from the changes in the social contexts that made previous forms of normativity, based upon ‘habits, ‘habitus’ and ‘routine action’, unhelpfully misleading because they no longer constituted relevant guidelines to action. It ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
Series
Social Morphogenesis
Number of Pages
295
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319284385
SKU
V9783319284385
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About Margaret S. . Ed(S): Archer
Margaret Archer heads the project at EPFL 'From Modernity to Morphogenesis'. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association at the 12th World Congress of Sociology. She is a founder member of both the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences and is a trustee of the ... Read more
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