社会理論の変換(21世紀を展望する産業・経営・会計(Part II))

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The year 1999 represents the end of three periods at once: the end of the year, the end of the century, and the end of the millennium. As such, the historical significance of retrospect and prospect is highly relevant. In his 1995 paper Modern, Anti-, Post-, and Neo-, Jeffrey C. Alexander considers the overall history of society and thought in post-war America in terms of the transformations of social theory. And thus he identifies the current position, and explores the future outlook. According to Alexander, post-war American intellectuals have produced four distinctive bodies of social theory, which have risen to prominence interchangeably in the theoretical and ideological thinking of the time. They are: modernization theory and romantic liberalism (mid-1960's to mid-1970's), anti-modernization theory and heroic radicalism (mid 1960's to late 1970's), post-modern theory and comic indifference (late 1970's to late 1980's), and the emergence of neo-modernism or re-advances theory (1989 onwards). In addition to this basic hypothesis, Alexander examines important ideas such as the integration of science and myth in social theory and the alleged fluidity of the "emergence" of neo-modernist theory. While more references to imperialism and nationalism or state function would have been desirable, he is highly critical of the recent fashion to categorize globalization and neo-modernism together as simply rebirth of modernism.
日本大学の論文
2000-03-31