Rainer C Baum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 187793 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rainer C Baum |
| NOMBRES | Rainer C |
| APELLIDO | Baum |
| FIRMA | BAUM R C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Parsons on Evolution of Democracy
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism
1. Introduction: societal constitutionalism as critical theory Part I. Conceptual Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism: 2. Social integration and social control: the importance of procedural normative restraints 3. Liberalism and the Weberian dilemma: from restraints on government to restraints on civil society 4. Conceptual foundations of societal constitutionalism: from internal restraints on government to external restraints on drift Part…
The Holocaust and the German Elite
The Holocaust and the German Elite
A Revised Interpretive Approach to the Religious Significance of Death in Western Societies
A critical review of the work of Parsons and associates on the meaning of death in modern society reveals a tendency to one-function reductionism. This is incompatible with action-theoretical premises underlying the model of socio-cultural modernity as a complex system. Perusal of prominent contemporary theological writing on the meaning of suffering and death provides a first step toward a more systematically ordered interpretation of death in t…
The 1980 Texts in Social Gerontology
Aging Comes of Age
National Socialism
Organized in three parts, this paper I. summarizes Parsons's analysis of fascism and National Socialism written during the 1940s; II. places his work into the context of earlier and later theories of fascism; and III. suggests how Parsons's later theoretical work may aid our under standing of National Socialism
The Coming Renaissance of Functional Sociology
The Holocaust – Anomic Hobbesian “State of Nature”
Angeleitet von HANNAH ARENDT, die in der Massenvernichtung von Juden im NS-Regime die „Banalität des Bösen“ erkannte, belegt die Arbeit erneut, daß die Beteiligten an diesem Mord „normale“, gewöhnliche Menschen waren, und interpretiert diesen Befund ergänzend im Sinne der These einer „Identifikation mit dem Opfer“. Als Hauptursache, die zur Massenvernichtung führte, wird moralische Indifferenz indiziert; sie bestimmte die Haltung insbesondere der…
Authority Codes
Anders als ältere Theorien zeigen die Ergebnisse der neueren Forschung, daß in industriellen Gesellschaften die politischen Ordnungen nicht konvergieren. Fußend auf diesem Befund stellt der vorliegende Beitrag als Kontinuitätsfaktor sozialer Modernisierung namentlich die Codes politischer Autorität heraus. Hauptfunktion derartiger Stile ist es, wie sich zeigt, die Identität einer Gesellschaft im Generationenwandel aufrechtzuerhalten, sie zu verti…
Authority and Identity – The Invariance Hypothesis II / Autorität und Identität - Die Invarianzhypothese II
Als Beitrag zum Problem der Kontinuität sozialer Modernisierungsprozesse behauptete ein früherer Aufsatz die historische Invarianz der gesellschaftlich legitimierenden Autoritätscodes. Diese Argumentation wird hier im Sinne Dürkheims fortgeführt, indem a) Fakten präsentiert werden, die vermuten lassen, daß unterschiedliche Gesellschaften verschiedene Individualismus-Typen hervorbringen; b) gezeigt wird, wie sich das Streben nach individueller Aut…
Explorations in General Theory in Social Science
"Beyond the "Iron Cage
Acknowledging the discredited nature of much of contemporary modernization theory, the blame for failure is here allocated to an unwarranted preoccupation with Zweckrationalität as crucial to an understanding of modernization and modern society. Instead of abandoning the classics, as has been advocated, this paper offers a revision. Drawing on theoretical resources of the theory of action, Weber's concepts of Wert and Zweckrationalität are reform…
Beyond Convergence
The 200 year old debate about convergence is indicted for one-sidedness in theory and lack of clarity in its propositions. A functional typology of solidarities is developed with predictions of convergence, divergence, and evolutionary invariance. Specific hypotheses for comparative survey research are presented
French Trends Toward 'Consociational Plannocracy' As a Remedy for America's Social Ills
Values and Democracy in Imperial Germany
The relationship between societal values and political, particularly democratic development has been of interest to many students of politics. This paper reports data on the values of German society before WW I. An instrument to measure value orientations on the basis of Action Theory is described and its underlying assumptions as well as those pertaining to the use of fiction as a source on values in historical periods are discussed. Findings ar…
National Socialism
Organized in three parts, this paper I. summarizes Parsons's analysis of fascism and National Socialism written during the 1940s; II. places his work into the context of earlier and later theories of fascism; and III. suggests how Parsons's later theoretical work may aid our under standing of National Socialism
Beyond Convergence
The 200 year old debate about convergence is indicted for one-sidedness in theory and lack of clarity in its propositions. A functional typology of solidarities is developed with predictions of convergence, divergence, and evolutionary invariance. Specific hypotheses for comparative survey research are presented
Values and Democracy in Imperial Germany
The relationship between societal values and political, particularly democratic development has been of interest to many students of politics. This paper reports data on the values of German society before WW I. An instrument to measure value orientations on the basis of Action Theory is described and its underlying assumptions as well as those pertaining to the use of fiction as a source on values in historical periods are discussed. Findings ar…
Aging Comes of Age
Values and Democracy in Imperial Germany
The relationship between societal values and political, particularly democratic development has been of interest to many students of politics. This paper reports data on the values of German society before WW I. An instrument to measure value orientations on the basis of Action Theory is described and its underlying assumptions as well as those pertaining to the use of fiction as a source on values in historical periods are discussed. Findings ar…
French Trends Toward 'Consociational Plannocracy' As a Remedy for America's Social Ills
Beyond Convergence
The 200 year old debate about convergence is indicted for one-sidedness in theory and lack of clarity in its propositions. A functional typology of solidarities is developed with predictions of convergence, divergence, and evolutionary invariance. Specific hypotheses for comparative survey research are presented
Authority Codes
Anders als ältere Theorien zeigen die Ergebnisse der neueren Forschung, daß in industriellen Gesellschaften die politischen Ordnungen nicht konvergieren. Fußend auf diesem Befund stellt der vorliegende Beitrag als Kontinuitätsfaktor sozialer Modernisierung namentlich die Codes politischer Autorität heraus. Hauptfunktion derartiger Stile ist es, wie sich zeigt, die Identität einer Gesellschaft im Generationenwandel aufrechtzuerhalten, sie zu verti…
Authority and Identity – The Invariance Hypothesis II / Autorität und Identität - Die Invarianzhypothese II
Als Beitrag zum Problem der Kontinuität sozialer Modernisierungsprozesse behauptete ein früherer Aufsatz die historische Invarianz der gesellschaftlich legitimierenden Autoritätscodes. Diese Argumentation wird hier im Sinne Dürkheims fortgeführt, indem a) Fakten präsentiert werden, die vermuten lassen, daß unterschiedliche Gesellschaften verschiedene Individualismus-Typen hervorbringen; b) gezeigt wird, wie sich das Streben nach individueller Aut…
Explorations in General Theory in Social Science
"Beyond the "Iron Cage
Acknowledging the discredited nature of much of contemporary modernization theory, the blame for failure is here allocated to an unwarranted preoccupation with Zweckrationalität as crucial to an understanding of modernization and modern society. Instead of abandoning the classics, as has been advocated, this paper offers a revision. Drawing on theoretical resources of the theory of action, Weber's concepts of Wert and Zweckrationalität are reform…
The Holocaust – Anomic Hobbesian “State of Nature”
Angeleitet von HANNAH ARENDT, die in der Massenvernichtung von Juden im NS-Regime die „Banalität des Bösen“ erkannte, belegt die Arbeit erneut, daß die Beteiligten an diesem Mord „normale“, gewöhnliche Menschen waren, und interpretiert diesen Befund ergänzend im Sinne der These einer „Identifikation mit dem Opfer“. Als Hauptursache, die zur Massenvernichtung führte, wird moralische Indifferenz indiziert; sie bestimmte die Haltung insbesondere der…
The Coming Renaissance of Functional Sociology
The 1980 Texts in Social Gerontology
Aging Comes of Age
National Socialism
Organized in three parts, this paper I. summarizes Parsons's analysis of fascism and National Socialism written during the 1940s; II. places his work into the context of earlier and later theories of fascism; and III. suggests how Parsons's later theoretical work may aid our under standing of National Socialism
The Holocaust and the German Elite
A Revised Interpretive Approach to the Religious Significance of Death in Western Societies
A critical review of the work of Parsons and associates on the meaning of death in modern society reveals a tendency to one-function reductionism. This is incompatible with action-theoretical premises underlying the model of socio-cultural modernity as a complex system. Perusal of prominent contemporary theological writing on the meaning of suffering and death provides a first step toward a more systematically ordered interpretation of death in t…
The Holocaust and the German Elite
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism
1. Introduction: societal constitutionalism as critical theory Part I. Conceptual Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism: 2. Social integration and social control: the importance of procedural normative restraints 3. Liberalism and the Weberian dilemma: from restraints on government to restraints on civil society 4. Conceptual foundations of societal constitutionalism: from internal restraints on government to external restraints on drift Part…
Parsons on Evolution of Democracy
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