Showing papers by "Larry Ray published in 1993"
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17 Aug 1993
TL;DR: In this paper, the crisis of state socialism in Islamic Jacobins State, 'Race' and Regulation, and modernity's unfinished business are discussed. But the focus of the paper is on the social movements and the Lifeworld.
Abstract: Introduction Marx, Critical Theory and Social Movements PART ONE Authority and Tradition From Praxis to Communication Communication and Evolution Social Movements and the Lifeworld PART TWO Introduction Legitimation in Peripheral States The Crisis of State Socialism Islamic Jacobins State, 'Race' and Regulation Conclusion Modernity's Unfinished Business
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TL;DR: The theory of societal constitutionalism as discussed by the authors is a new conceptual framework developed by David Sciulli, and the volume under review is the culmination of his work that began with the publication of his article on the same topic in 1986.
Abstract: The theory of societal constitutionalism is a new conceptual framework developed by David Sciulli, and the volume under review is the culmination of his work that began with the publication of his article on the same topic in 1986. This new framework, which is based on a synthesis of concepts from Lon Fuller the Harvard legal theorist Jurgen Habermas and Talcott Parsons, deals with the problem of social authoritarianism by analytically distinguishing instances of social order based on actors' integration from instances in which social order rests on actors' social control. Only by making this distinction, Sciulli asserts, can a nation state's susceptibility to social authoritarianism be empirically determined. Sciulli argues that the conceptual frameworks currently available for comparative studies the works of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, the Frankfurt school, Parsonian functionalists, etc. have failed to make this social integration/social control distinction. The theory of societal constitutionalism brings this distinction to research findings in comparative politics and the sociology of organizations to explain both historical and contemporary shifts in a nation-state's direction of social change. The author shows that increasing social authoritarianism within Western democracies and decreasing coercion within non-Western nation states are important empirical issues. He argues that the problem of social authoritarianism is found irrespective of a type of economic system. The theory of societal constitutionalism is thus offered as a
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