From Societas to World Society [electronic resource] Genealogy of a Concept

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Volker H.

Series:

Theory Workshop Series

Theory Workshop Series v.03

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston BRILL 2025

Summary:

From Societas to World Society offers a genealogy of sociology's key concept, ""society."" Recovering its millennia-long intellectual history, Schmidt suggests a conceptualization that sheds the social sciences' Eurocentric legacies and lays foundations for a global social science

Contents:

Front Cover

Endorsements Title

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyrights Informations

Dedication Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Figures

Conventions

Introduction

1 Society as a Social Science Concept

Part 1: Foundations: Fifth Century BCE to the Late Middle Ages

2 The Roman Societates

1 The Economic Societas

2 The Military Societas

3 Societas Civilis

3 After the Collapse of Empire: Societas and Societas Civils in the Medieval Age

4 The Medieval Theory of Civil Society: Law, Theology, and Philosophy

1 The Evolution of Roman Law

2 The Evolution of Christian Theology and Canon Law

3 The Evolution of Civil Society Theory

5 Fast Forward: Societas in the Modern Age

Concluding Summary

Part 2: Political Theories of Society and the Emergence of Sociology, 17th to Early 20th Centuries

6 Social Contract Theories: Althusius, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Spencer

7 Society and Community: Ferdinand Tönnies

1 Society

2 Community

8 Two Classical Sociologists: Max Weber and Émile Durkheim

1 Weber

2 Durkheim

Concluding Summary

Part 3: 20th Century Theories of Society

9 Talcott Parsons

10 Niklas Luhmann

11 Jürgen Habermas

12 Pierre Bourdieu

Part 4: Globalization and the Emergence of "World Society"

13 Challenges to Sociology's Default Model of Society

14 Responses: The World Society Theories of Immanuel Wallerstein and John W. Meyer

1 Wallerstein

2 Meyer

15 A Comprehensive Alternative: Luhmann Again

and Beyond

Conclusion

16 Toward a Tenable Concept of Society

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record

Other Format:

Print version Schmidt, Volker H. From Societas to World Society

ISBN:

9789004727311

9004727310

OCLC:

1519988042

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