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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction By Etzioni: Theory, Research, and Policy -- 1. Frameworks and Findings: Assessing Etzioni's Contributions to Sociology -- Part I: The Active Society -- 2. Economic Action, Social Action, and the Genesis of Values: An Essay on Amitai Etzioni's Contribution to Social Theory -- 3. A Theoretical Framework on the Interaction of Politics and News Media: A Dialogue with Etzioni's The Active Society -- Part II: Socioeconomics and Communitarianism: Theory

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- NORMATIVE ORDER IN ORGANIZATIONS -- ETZIONI'S FUNCTIONALISM AND SOCIETAL CONSTITUTIONALISM -- ORDER IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES: ETZIONI'S THREE MAJOR CONCEPTUAL DECISIONS -- DEFINING AN ACTIVE SOCIETY: PUSHING AMERICAN PRAGMATISM AND OPTIMISM TO THE EDGE -- OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO ACTIVENESS I: EXTENDING CONSENSUS AND CONTROL -- OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO ACTIVENESS II: RECRUITING AND SOCIALIZING LEADERS -- POLICY FOR AN ACTIVE SOCIETY -- DECLINING OPTIMISM: AN IMMODEST AGENDA IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY -- ONGOING FAILURE: BREAKDOWNS IN PRIMARY SOCIALIZATION -- INCREASING CRITICISM: CORRUPTION IN ELECTORAL POLITICS AND NATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- THE ECONOMY'S "NORMATIVE CAPSULE:" FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS -- INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY -- TYPES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY I: SHAMING AND PRIVILEGING COMMUNITY -- TYPES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY II: RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY -- MORAL COMMITMENTS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY -- ETZIONI REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

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