Social Theory For A Changing Society by Pierre Bourdieu, Jame... - 9780367303150

Taylor & Francis

This book examines changes in technology and social organization and shows how social theory can inform the construction of social organization. It provides avenues of future social development. The book is based on a conference \""Social Theory and Emerging Issues in a Changing Society\"". > \""There is in modem society a structural change that underlies many of the social changes with which the conference was concerned. My argument here will be that this is a qualitative change in the way society is organized, a change with many implications. I will call this a change from primordial and spontaneous social organization to constructed social organization (see Coleman 1990, Chapters 2, 3, and 24 for an extended examination of this change). The common definitions of these terms contain some hint of what I mean, but I will describe the change more fully to ensure that it is clearly understood. By primordial social organization I mean social organization that has its origins in the relak