Nicos P Mouzelis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 127862 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicos P Mouzelis |
| NOMBRES | Nicos P |
| APELLIDO | Mouzelis |
| FIRMA | MOUZELIS N P |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 80 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 650 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
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Lacan and meditation
Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing
Modernity and the Secularization Debate
The article shows how the three basic socio-structural features of modernity (inclusion of a whole population into the national centre, top-down differentiation and widespread individualization) throw some light on the secularization-desecularization debate - as this is shaped by the writings of Bryan Wilson, Steve Bruce, David Martin and Charles Taylor
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, Tradition
The paper provides a critical account of Alasdair MacIntyre's moral theory. It argues that, contrary to his position, the three discourses that he examines, as attempts to provide moral guidelines to one's life trajectory are complementary, under late-modern conditions, rather than contradictory
Civil society and citizenship inpost-war Greece
Self and Self-Other Reflexivity
By referring to mundane practices as well as to more systematic or theoretical discourses (those of Krishnamurti and Buber), this article shows the utility of focusing on the negatory, apophatic aspects of reflexivity, i.e. on attempts at removing obstacles (mainly thinking, decision-making processes) which prevent the spontaneous emergence of open-ended self-self and self-other relationships
Habitus and Reflexivity
Contrary to Bourdieu's thesis, it is not only when a subject's habitus does not fit a field's positions that s/he becomes more reflexive. Reflexivity is also enhanced by intra-habitus tensions, by more general incongruences between dispositions, positions, and interactive/figurational structures, as well as by situations unrelated to them. Because of his ambitious but unsuccessful attempt to transcend the objectivist-subjectivist divide in the so…
Sociological Theory
Social theory is open to many passing currents. Claims to originality tend to thrive and past achievements are often ignored. In Sociologiocal Theory: What Went Wrong? Mouzelis claims that "problems" currently being isolated are not really problems, and that "achievements" claimed are little more than pretensions. He argues that we have been premature to dismiss thinkers from the late 1950s and early 1960s and that we can build on their ideas to …
Reflexive Modernization and the Third Way
In the light of a critical account of Giddens' three recent books on politics (1994, 1998, 2000) this paper argues that it is possible to formulate a third way, that is different both form the ad hoc mixture of neo-liberal and conventional social-democratic recipes found in the Blair/Schröder type of discourse, as well as from Giddens' utopianism that is blind to political economy realities. This alternative version of the third way, guided by a …
The Subjectivist-Objectivist Divide
On the basis of a fourfold typology referring to different definitions of the social-structure concept, and of a critique of Giddens's and Bourdieu's strategies for transcending the divide between objectivist and subjectivist sociologies, this paper argues that rapprochement rather than transcendence is the way to overcome the existing fragmentation and for bringing closer together structural/structuralist and interpretative paradigms in the soci…
Modernity
In the light of insights drawn from historical sociology and Parsons' theory of differentiation/modernization, an attempt is made to conceptualize modernity in such a way as to avoid both eurocentrism and the total rejection of the concept by those who view it as an ideological means for the further advancement of western cultural imperialism
David Lockwood
David Lockwood began his sociological career at a time when it was Parsonian functionalism and its complement — what C.W. Mills called abstracted empiricism — that dominated sociology. Going against the prevailing orthodoxy, Lockwood tried to introduce into the empirically orientated sociological research issues derived from the work of Karl Marx , the great absentee from the early post-war sociological canon. His whole oeuvre can be seen as an i…
Modernity, Late Development and Civil Society
From a sociological point of view, modernity can be regarded as the social situation that became dominant in Western Europe after the English Industrial and the French Revolutions. It entailed an unprecedented social mobilization of human and non-human resources as the pronounced localism of the traditional post-medieval community was broken up and superseded by the creation of national arenas on the economic, political and cultural levels.
Beyond the Normative and the Utilitarian
In Defence of the Sociological Canon
L'A. s'efforce de repondre a N. Mouzelis qui, suivant un relativisme radical, dans un article intitule «Why bother with Durkheim ?», estime que l'etude des peres fondateurs ne constitue nullement une aide pour l'analyse sociologique. L'A. s'oppose a cette vision meme s'il reconnait que le «canon» qui sous-tend la recherche sociologique doit etre reforme et elargi. Il envisage les conditions de la construction sociale du canon sociologique. Il se …
Sociological Theory
Social Integration and Marginalisation
Social and System Integration
The different ways in which Lockwood, Habermas, and Giddens conceptualise the social-/system-integration distinction are examined. It is argued that (with some modification) Lockwood's conceptualisation is logically more congruent and heuristically more useful than that of the other two theorists
After Postmodernism
The Elements of Social Theory
Sociological Theory
Back to sociological theory
In Defence of 'Grand' Historical Sociology
Modernity
Honour, Family and Patronage. A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain Community
Sociological Theory
Social theory is open to many passing currents. Claims to originality tend to thrive and past achievements are often ignored. In Sociologiocal Theory: What Went Wrong? Mouzelis claims that "problems" currently being isolated are not really problems, and that "achievements" claimed are little more than pretensions. He argues that we have been premature to dismiss thinkers from the late 1950s and early 1960s and that we can build on their ideas to …
On the Concept of Populism
Organisation and Bureaucracy
The American Journal of Sociology says of this book knows and handles the literature well and accurately brings the reader up to the early sixties. A summarizer, synthesizer, and historian of modern theories, he serves his novice well. The more initiated student of formal organizations will appreciate the critiques of his favorite theorists: Mouzelis cuts clean and bold. Along with order, he does add critical insight to his borrowed materials.Thi…
Habitus and Reflexivity
Contrary to Bourdieu's thesis, it is not only when a subject's habitus does not fit a field's positions that s/he becomes more reflexive. Reflexivity is also enhanced by intra-habitus tensions, by more general incongruences between dispositions, positions, and interactive/figurational structures, as well as by situations unrelated to them. Because of his ambitious but unsuccessful attempt to transcend the objectivist-subjectivist divide in the so…
Post-Marxist Alternatives
Mouzelis puts forward a post-Marxist conceptual framework which overcomes economic reductionism while retaining some distinctive features of the Marxist paradigm which are seen to be indispensable for
Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond
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Philosophy or sociological theory? restructuring structuration theory - duality and dualism in sociological theory social and system integration - back to Lockwood social hierarchies and some sociological theories or micro/macro integration hierarchies, social and system integration, duality and dualism reification - ignoring the balance between social and system integration reductionism - neglecting hierarchical levels
Sociology of Development
This paper argues (a) that some of the present difficulties experienced by the sociology of development can be overcome by a macro comparative historical focus on the qualitative differences between the long term development of the capitalist centre and periphery, as well as on the strikingly different developmental trajectories to be seen within the third world; (b) that Marxism in general, and the dependency approach in particular, although mor…
Modernization, under development, uneven development
Taken as a whole, the two books considered in this review article - David Lehmann, ed., Development Theory: Four Critical Studies, Frank Cass: 1979, £9.50, £4.95 (paperback) and John G. Taylor, From Modernisation to Modes of Production: A Critique of the Sociologies of Development and Underdevelopment, Macmillan: 1979, £12.00, £4.95 (paperback) - give a concise but comprehensive picture of the complex debates and the various theoretical impasses …
Restructuring Structuration Theory
The article looks critically at Giddens's duality of structure notion which is at the centre of his structuration theory. It argues that the concept of subject/object dualism, which is not seriously considered by structuration theory, is as essential as the concept of duality for an understanding of how actors orient themselves to rules and resources as a virtual order, as well as to sets of interactions in time and space
Post-Marxist Alternatives. The Construction of Social Orders
Part 1 Setting the problem: Marxist reductionism and neo-realist epistemology - neo-realist epistemology and historical materialism, monism versus Pluralism Marxism versus post-Marxism - core Marxism - closed or open, the displacement of institutional analysis, the relative autonomy of the political, methodological Holism and authoritarianism. Part 2 The economic and the political - towards a non-reductive framework: technology, appropriation, id…
Capitalism and the development of agriculture
La question paysanne et le capitalisme by S. Amin, K. Vergopoulos. Paris: Anthropos, 1974; pp. 220. The Agrarian Problem in Greece: the issue of the social incorporation of agriculture (in Greek) by K. Vergopoulos. Athens: Exantas, 1975; pp. 385
The Poverty of Sociological Theory
This paper discusses critically some major developments of post-Parsonian sociological/social theory, focusing particularly on the micro-macro and agency-structure issues. The failure to deal in a satisfactory manner with these issues has led to a theoretical impasse that present theorising does not seem able to overcome
Social and System Integration
Organization and Bureaucracy
Reflexive Modernization and the Third Way
In the light of a critical account of Giddens' three recent books on politics (1994, 1998, 2000) this paper argues that it is possible to formulate a third way, that is different both form the ad hoc mixture of neo-liberal and conventional social-democratic recipes found in the Blair/Schröder type of discourse, as well as from Giddens' utopianism that is blind to political economy realities. This alternative version of the third way, guided by a …
In Defence of 'Grand' Historical Sociology
In Defence of the Sociological Canon
L'A. s'efforce de repondre a N. Mouzelis qui, suivant un relativisme radical, dans un article intitule «Why bother with Durkheim ?», estime que l'etude des peres fondateurs ne constitue nullement une aide pour l'analyse sociologique. L'A. s'oppose a cette vision meme s'il reconnait que le «canon» qui sous-tend la recherche sociologique doit etre reforme et elargi. Il envisage les conditions de la construction sociale du canon sociologique. Il se …
Sociological Theory
Self and Self-Other Reflexivity
By referring to mundane practices as well as to more systematic or theoretical discourses (those of Krishnamurti and Buber), this article shows the utility of focusing on the negatory, apophatic aspects of reflexivity, i.e. on attempts at removing obstacles (mainly thinking, decision-making processes) which prevent the spontaneous emergence of open-ended self-self and self-other relationships
Social and System Integration
The different ways in which Lockwood, Habermas, and Giddens conceptualise the social-/system-integration distinction are examined. It is argued that (with some modification) Lockwood's conceptualisation is logically more congruent and heuristically more useful than that of the other two theorists
On Figurational Sociology
Class and Clientelistic Politics
Social and System Integration
Honour, Family and Patronage. A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain Community
Organization and Bureaucracy
Organisation and Bureaucracy
The American Journal of Sociology says of this book knows and handles the literature well and accurately brings the reader up to the early sixties. A summarizer, synthesizer, and historian of modern theories, he serves his novice well. The more initiated student of formal organizations will appreciate the critiques of his favorite theorists: Mouzelis cuts clean and bold. Along with order, he does add critical insight to his borrowed materials.Thi…
Silverman on Organizations
Planned Organizational Change
On Total Institutions
Modernisation, development and the peasant
Modernization among Peasants: The Impact of Communication, by Everett M. Rogers in association with L. SvenningModernising Peasant Societies: A Comparative Study in Asia and Africa, by Guy HunterAgrarian Problems and Peasant Movements in Latin America, edited by Rodolfo StavenhagenLes classes sociales dans les sociétés agraires, by Rodolfo Stavenhagen
Social and System Integration
Capitalism and Dictatorship in Post-War Greece
The seven year rule of the Greek Junta, from 1967 to 1974, has attracted much attention but little satisfactory analysis. It has been used as the basis for case studies of imperialism, cia conspiracy or third world development. But the specificity of the Greek social formation and
Capitalism and the development of agriculture
La question paysanne et le capitalisme by S. Amin, K. Vergopoulos. Paris: Anthropos, 1974; pp. 220. The Agrarian Problem in Greece: the issue of the social incorporation of agriculture (in Greek) by K. Vergopoulos. Athens: Exantas, 1975; pp. 385
Greek and Bulgarian Peasants
One of the most interesting features of Balkan politics during the interwar period has been the spectacular rise of peasant movements and parties which have had a profound influence on the social structure of these societies. The only Balkan country which did not experience a strong peasant movement was Greece. As I will try to argue below, the development of Balkan peasantism can be seen to a large extent as a political reaction to the strains a…
Capitalism and the Development of Agriculture
In this chapter I shall try to complement as well as to make more concrete some of the theoretical points of the two previous chapters by a detailed analysis of two books on development: (a) S. Amin and K. Vergopoulos, La question paysanne et le capitalisme;1 and (b) K. Vergopoulos, The agrarian problem in Greece: The issue of the social incorporation of agriculture.2 These two works reflect, in varying degrees, two recent interconnected trends i…
Modern Greece
Modern Greece
Ideology and Class Politics
Ernesto Laclau’s Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory contains four interconnected, but relatively self-contained essays. Two of these had already been published, indeed had been quite influential. Laclau’s critique of Gunder Frank’s theory of underdevelopment, and especially of his definition of capitalism in market rather than production terms
Class and Clientelistic Politics
Peasant agriculture, productivity and the laws of capitalist development
A reply to Tsoucalas
Reductionism in Marxist Theory
Most Marxists would agree that two of Marxism's lasting contributions to the methodology of the social sciences are (a) its holistic orientation — its unwillingness to examine social phenomena in a compartmentalised fashion; and (b) its portrayal of collective agents in a dialectical relation to their social environment — with economic, political and ideological structures setting limits to collective action, while at the same time collective age…
Modern Greece
Now that Greece has been fully accepted as the tenth member of the European Economic Community (EEC), whether it will be able to "catch up" with its West European partners and the related question of whether it is developed or underdeveloped are issues that have acquired a new urgency and importance. For some students, Greece is still a peripheral, underdeveloped country, and its integration into the Common Market is bound to accentuate its depen…
Modern Greece, Facets of Underdevelopment
Modernization, under development, uneven development
Taken as a whole, the two books considered in this review article - David Lehmann, ed., Development Theory: Four Critical Studies, Frank Cass: 1979, £9.50, £4.95 (paperback) and John G. Taylor, From Modernisation to Modes of Production: A Critique of the Sociologies of Development and Underdevelopment, Macmillan: 1979, £12.00, £4.95 (paperback) - give a concise but comprehensive picture of the complex debates and the various theoretical impasses …
Teleology and uneven development
Mouzelis continues his debate with Taylor (which started with a review article by Mouzelis in the Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 8, no. 3. April, 1981). Mouzelis holds that neither the Baran concept of potential surplus nor the development/underdevelopment distinction leads necessarily to a teleological analysis; that Taylor's own theory is teleological; that Taylor's apparently revised position with respect to articulation of modes of producti…
The History of Marxism, Volume One
On the Demise of Oligarchic Parliamentarism in the Semi-Periphery
This paper focuses on peripheral capitalist societies which (a) acquired their political independence relatively early and had already in the 19th century adopted parliamentary forms of political representation; (b) experienced a considerable degree of capitalist industrialization during the inter-war and post-war periods. A fundamental dimension for understanding the structure and functioning of political institutions in the above societies has …
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