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Moral order and social disorder : the American search for civil society / Frank Hearn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hearn, Frank.
- Series:
- Sociological imagination and structural change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Moral conditions.
- United States.
- Moral conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Social conditions.
- Social problems--United States.
- Social problems.
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- Civil society--United States.
- Civil society.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Aldine de Gruyter, [1997]
- Summary:
- Drawing upon both classical insights and more recent writing. Hearn provides a compelling account of social breakdown in the United States. The book examines the conditions most responsible for the deterioration of social institutions, notably the family, and of communitarian interdependencies, such as those that support neighborhoods. More specifically, Hearn analyzes the defining forces of liberal modernity, whose steady expansion has diminished the social contexts that nurture trust, mutuality, and a robust sense of both personal responsibility and social obligation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0202306038
- 0202306046
- OCLC:
- 36817238
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