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The active society revisited

The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. In this new collection of essays, Wilson Carey McWilliams brings together scholars in a range of disciplines to analyze the significance and shortcomings of this important work.
Print Book, English, ©2006
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Md., ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 352 pages ; 24 cm
9780742549142, 9780742549159, 0742549143, 0742549151
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Introduction / Wilson Carey McWilliams
Macroscopic action : on Amitai Etzioni's contribution to social theory / Hans Joas
The cultural dimensions of The active society / Edward W. Lehman
The cybernetic institutionalist / Fabio Rojas
The constitution of activity : Etzioni's foundation of social theory in collective action and collective actors / Frank Adloff
The actively drifting society / Joseph H. Spear
Communitarianism : the highest state of progressivism The active society revisited / Dennis Hale
The teamwork of Sisyphus : post-Fordist capitalism, corporate culture, and Etzioni's "active society" / Eugene McCarraher
Membership and belonging : Etzioni's "authenticity" and the existential challenges of liberalism / Richard Boyd
Swing low sweet chariot : transformation and religious tradition / William C. Green
The eagle and the worm : The active society from a community organizer's perspective / Mike Miller
Searching for active citizenship / David S. Gutterman and Melissa Buis Michaux
Courting megalogues : judicial power in The active society / Paul A. Sracic
Community formation, gender issues, and the evolution of international law : a perspective on Amitai Etzioni's The active society / Frances T. Pilch
"Lighting damp logs" : social movements, liberal democracy, and the politics of transformation / Daniel J. Tichenor
From The active society to the good society : the second sailing of Amitai Etzioni / Patrick J. Deneen
The active society revisited : a response / Amitai Etzioni