A treatise on social theory, 2, Substantive social theory
In: A treatise on social theory 2
In: A treatise on social theory 2
In: The library of social studies
In: Telos, Band 32, S. 27-41
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
S. Freud's psychological theory implies a theory of society, which Freud later explicitly developed. The psychoanalytic therapy developed by Freud is actually equivalent to the critical theory of socialization, which focuses on the dialectic of assimilation & alienation. Freud's culture & society theory may be considered critical, since it refers to institutions on the basis of the problems that they cause for individuals. Class systems are able to function due to an acculturation process that block an individual's drives by cultural ideals. Thus, large groups may be dominated by smaller, elite groups. This crisis can only be removed by replacing a religious social morality with a rationalistic social morality. Psychoanalysis actually works against false awareness & illusion & attacks the status quo -- which then merges the therapy into a critique of socially necessary illusions. M. Migalski.
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 137-140
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 17-35
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Traditions in social theory
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Heft 62, S. 121-134
ISSN: 0725-5136
A review essay on books by Zygmunt Bauman, Work, Consumerism and the New Poor (Buckingham: Open U Press, 1998) & Globalization: The Human Consequences (Cambridge: Polity, 1998); & (2) Buelent Diken, Strangers, Ambivalence and Social Theory (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). The themes in these three books -- identity politics, alterity, globalization, hybridity, & the post-Fordist structure of work -- reflect recurrent themes in social theory at the turn of the century. In Bauman's works, he presents a theory of strangerhood & discusses the nature & treatment of the social & cultural Other excluded from the globalized & mass consumer society of the West. He makes a distinction between the modern & postmodern stranger, with the latter associated with identity politics. Diken utilizes Simmel's concepts of stranger, Bauman's theory, & ethnographic data on Turkish immigrants in Denmark to expose exclusionary practices underlying public discourse on immigration. He develops an ambivalent social theory using the metaphor of the stranger & the adoption of an insider & outsider perspective. 38 References. M. Pflum
In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie: KZfSS, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 154-155
ISSN: 0023-2653
In: History of European ideas, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 431-432
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: New statesman & society, Band 2, Heft 38, S. 37-38
ISSN: 0954-2361