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Social Morphogenesis Margaret S. Archer Editor Late Modernity Trajectories towards Morphogenic Society Late Modernity Social Morphogenesis SeriesEditor: MARGARETS.ARCHER EPFLEcolePolytechniqueFédéraledeLausanne,Switzerland Aimsandscope: To focus upon ‘social morphogenesis’ as a general process of change is very different fromexaminingitsparticularresultsoverthelastquarterofacentury.Thisseriesventures whatthegenerativemechanismsarethatproducesuchrapidchangeanddiscusseshowthis differs from late modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive feedback that results in a change in social form) and a corresponding reduction inmorphostasis(negativefeedbackthatrestoresorreproducestheformofthesocialorder) bestcapturestheprocessinvolved. The seriesconsists of 5 volumes derived from theCentre for Social Ontology’s annual workshops “FromModernity toMorphogenesis” attheUniversityof Lausanne, headed by MargaretArcher. Forfurthervolumes: http://www.springer.com/series/11959 Margaret S. Archer Editor Late Modernity Trajectories towards Morphogenic Society 123 Editor MargaretS.Archer EcolePolytechniqueFédéraledeLausanne Lausanne,Switzerland This volume II follows the book “Social Morphogenesis”, edited by Margaret S. Archer, whichwasthefirstbookinaseriespublishedin2013. http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/book/978-94-007-6127-8 ISSN2198-1604 ISSN2198-1612(electronic) ISBN978-3-319-03265-8 ISBN978-3-319-03266-5(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-03266-5 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2014930984 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2014 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof thematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerptsinconnection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Independent Social Research Foundation Preface Everyyearthisgroupof collaboratorsmeetsfora week’sWorkshopin Lausanne. Eachtimeweexamineaparticularaspectoftheoverallproject:‘FromModernityto MorphogenicSociety?’,whichis generouslysupportedbythe IndependentSocial Research Foundation as is the Centre d’Ontologie Sociale in its activities. We are extremely grateful to the ISRF because long-term funding allows us to work systematicallyonthistheme. Thequestionmarkisthemostimportantpartofthisproject.Insteadofrushingto proclaimtheadventofanewsocialformationassomanyhavedone,wecanproceed moreslowlyandexaminethevarioustheoreticalandsubstantiveissuesinvolvedin societaltransformation.Thus,weareexploringratherthanendorsingthetransition fromModernitytoMorphogenicsociety.Whetherornotweconcludeinfavourof thispropositionwilldependupontheoutcomeofourexchangesoverthefollowing 3years. Because this is our preferred method of working, we are also very grateful to ourpublisher,Springer,whose editorssupportour rationaleandhave devotedthis closedseriesofbookstoourcollectivedevelopmentoftheseideas. Each annual volume is intended to be self-contained as far as the reader is concerned,althoughwehopethatreaderswillbecomeinterestedinhowourinternal discussionsanddebatesunfold. Thus, the first volume Social Morphogenesis (2013) was broadly concerned withdifferentiatingthe‘morphogeneticapproach’asaframeworkforanalysingthe processesofsocialchangefrom‘MorphogenicSociety’asapossibleoutcome–a newglobalsocialformation. In this volume, we take stock of Late Modernity and its potential trajectories. Subsequentcollectivevolumeswillexaminefurthercentralissues: the‘generative mechanisms’ at work today, not all which steer the social order in the same direction; the problem of normative fragmentation and the increasing deficit in social integration at a time of rapid and radical morphogenesis; and the most important question of all, in what ways could a potential Morphogenic Society constitutea‘goodsociety’. v vi Preface Thanks are due, above all, to the ‘Group of Ten’ collaborators, coming from variedtheoreticalbackgrounds,whohaveengagedsoproductivelytogether. Maxilly-sur-Léman,France MargaretS.Archer July2013 Contents 1 Introduction:‘Stability’or‘Stabilization’–OnWhich WouldMorphogenicSocietyDepend? ................................... 1 MargaretS.Archer 2 A Speeding Upofthe RateofSocialChange?Power, Technology,Resistance,GlobalisationandtheGoodSociety.......... 21 TonyLawson 3 The Emergent Social Qualities of a ‘Morphogenic’ Society:Cultures,Structures,andFormsofReflexivity ............... 49 AndreaMaccarini 4 ContemporaryMechanismsofSocialChange .......................... 77 DouglasV.Porpora 5 TheGenerativeMechanismRe-configuringLateModernity.......... 93 MargaretS.Archer 6 Onthe Validityof Describing ‘MorphogenicSociety’ as a System and Justifiability of Thinking About ItasaSocialFormation.................................................... 119 WolfgangHofkirchner 7 MorphogenicSocietyandtheStructureofSocialRelations........... 143 PierpaoloDonati 8 ‘Morphogenesis Unbound’ from the Dynamics ofMultilevelNetworks:ANeo-structuralPerspective................. 173 EmmanuelLazega vii viii Contents 9 MorphogenesisandNormativity:ProblemstheFormer CreatesfortheLatter...................................................... 193 IsmaëlAl-Amoudi 10 MorphogenesisandCooperationin the International PoliticalSystem............................................................. 221 ColinWight Contributors IsmaëlAl-Amoudi CardiffBusinessSchool,UniversityofCardiff,Cardiff,United Kingdom Margaret S. Archer Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Pierpaolo Donati Department of Sociology and Business Law, Università degli StudidiBologna,Bologna,Italy Wolfgang Hofkirchner Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna,Austria TonyLawson FacultyofEconomics,UniversityofCambridge,Cambridge,UK Emmanuel Lazega Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), DépartementdeSociologie,CentredeSociologiedesOrganisations,Paris,France Andrea Maccarini Department of Sociology, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova,Italy Douglas V. Porpora Department of Culture and Communications, Drexel University,Philadelphia,PA,USA Colin Wight Department of Governmentand International Relations, University ofSydney,Darlington,NSW,Australia ix
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