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A Genealogical History of SocietyThe Making of Society

A Genealogical History of Society: The Making of Society [The modern concept of society as objective entity first took shape in the 1820s. It involved the assumption that the human world was governed by an inherent mechanism of operation and change and that human subjects were therefore not natural, autonomous, and timeless individuals, but the historical products of a certain state of civilization. The process of theoretical rethinking that resulted in the new concept originated in the frustration of expectations with the outcomes of the liberal regime. That frustration led some people to raise doubts about the theoretical premises of liberalism, based on the concepts of the individual and of human nature, and to attempt to find more accurate and efficacious theoretical tools to fulfil the promised harmonic and stable political order. Given that the critics attributed the failure of liberalism to its theoretical flaws, they proceeded to reverse the terms of the individualist theory. The result was the formulation of a new theoretical paradigm founded on the concept of society and a new theory of human action based on the notion of social causality. This process of critical reaction against liberalism and the subsequent operation of theoretical inversion of individualism were mainly embodied in the work of authors such as Auguste Comte and the Saint-Simonians.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Genealogical History of SocietyThe Making of Society

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Sociology Book Series
Cabrera, Miguel A.
Springer Journals — Oct 28, 2017
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Author(s) 2018
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978-3-319-70436-4
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13 –58
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10.1007/978-3-319-70437-1_2
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[The modern concept of society as objective entity first took shape in the 1820s. It involved the assumption that the human world was governed by an inherent mechanism of operation and change and that human subjects were therefore not natural, autonomous, and timeless individuals, but the historical products of a certain state of civilization. The process of theoretical rethinking that resulted in the new concept originated in the frustration of expectations with the outcomes of the liberal regime. That frustration led some people to raise doubts about the theoretical premises of liberalism, based on the concepts of the individual and of human nature, and to attempt to find more accurate and efficacious theoretical tools to fulfil the promised harmonic and stable political order. Given that the critics attributed the failure of liberalism to its theoretical flaws, they proceeded to reverse the terms of the individualist theory. The result was the formulation of a new theoretical paradigm founded on the concept of society and a new theory of human action based on the notion of social causality. This process of critical reaction against liberalism and the subsequent operation of theoretical inversion of individualism were mainly embodied in the work of authors such as Auguste Comte and the Saint-Simonians.]

Published: Oct 28, 2017

Keywords: Concept of society; Civilization; Social causality; Comte; Saint-Simonians; Social physics; Sociology; Positivism; Human action; Individualism; Anti-Liberalism

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