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Abstract
First published in 1984 Tradition and Innovation by viewing Western civilization as a culture, puts the common perspectives of our major Western institutions in bolder relief. The author shows how the institutionalization of central modes of Western rationality-found in capitalism, industrialization, science, science - based technology, bureaucracy, the rule of law, the social and behavioral sciences-has created a culturally and historically unique form of collective life: advanced industrial society. Indicative of this development is the nature and meaning of the so-called innovative society itself, where rationality is increasingly seen to repose in institutions and organized structures rather than in individuals. Professor Wilson argues that this rationality is becoming traditionalized as a central artifact of our form of life, one which believes in the independent existence of the facts of life'. This is borne out by the increasing autonomy of what professor Wilson calls disembodied disciplined observation', determined as it is to annihilate contemplation and reflection in its effort to reconstitute practice in its own image. This is an interesting read for students of sociology, political science, public administration, and social science in general.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Dedication -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Reconnaissance -- Introduction -- Crisis as Opportunity -- Addressing/Describing -- Referential and Condensation Symbols -- Nominal and Real Definitions -- Concepts as Universals -- Concepts and Objects -- A Case in Point -- 2: Availability/Bias -- A Preliminary Distinction -- Individualism and Division of Labour -- The Observer and 'Behaviour' -- Imitation/Counter-Imitation -- A Cross-Cultural Approach? -- Limits of the Technical Bias -- 3: Practice/Theory -- The Concept of Practice -- The Technicization of Practice -- Dualisms and Dichotomies -- Innovation in Theory and Practice -- 4: The Rationality Question -- Reason and Rationality -- Is Innovation 'Rational' : I? -- Is Innovation 'Rational' : II? -- Nature, Tradition, and the Primitive -- Is Rationality Innovative? -- 5: Culture: Institutions and Ideologies -- A Case in Point -- Invention and Innovation -- Rationalization: Types and Levels -- Institutionalization and Change -- Culture as 'Form of Life' -- 6: Summary and Conclusions -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- 7: Reprise -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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