F J Lechner
Biographic Data
| ID | 21814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F J Lechner |
| GIVEN NAMES | F J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lechner |
| SIGNATURE | LECHNER F J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6813-7877 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 292 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Max Weber's sociology of law, then and now
Interpreting Max Weber’s sociology of law in historical context and as part of present scholarship, this chapter describes it as a somewhat successful intervention in debates of Weber’s time, a still-significant contribution to the study of rationalization, and a contested analysis of law exposed to criticism in recent decades, reinforcing the need to rethink current uses of classic texts.
How Is Society Possible
This paper questions the adequacy of Georg Simmel’s answer to the question, how is society possible? Treating his essay on the question as a contribution to his overall sociology, it argues that the “a prioris” he identifies add little to the general understanding of social forms, are neither necessary nor sufficient to make society possible as a coherent mental construct, and play at best a modest role in Simmel’s own analysis of forms. Taking a…
Rejoinder to Silver on “How Is Society Possible?”
Georg Simmel’s “How Is Society Possible?”: A Dialogue
Simmel's Soziologie in translation: A critical analysis
Using illustrative passages and comparisons with previous partial translations, this paper reports some problems of accuracy and tone in the complete English translation of Georg Simmel's sociological magnum opus, Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms. Placing these problems in the context of broader discussions of translation projects, it urges caution on the part of anglophone readers and suggests that some older translatio…
Economy and Society: A New Translation by Max Weber Keith Tribe (review)
Book Reviews 275© Max Weber Studies 2019. the use of which can therefore serve as a basis for asserting intellectual dependence. Wagner’s approach is decidedly original; but many readers will not, I fear, find in the introduction and other editorial material sufficient treatment of what they will, quite reasonably, be looking for. This book virtually closes the majestic procession of volumes that constitutes the Max Weber Gesamtausgabe. We should…
Versions of Vocation: Max Weber’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’ in Translation11I would like to thank Peter Höyng, Suzanne Lechner and reviewers for their helpful comments
Versions of Vocation: Max Weber's 'Wissenschaft als Beruf' in Translation
Expanding on prior discussion of the perils in translating the work of Max Weber, this paper compares five English versions of ‘Science as a Vocation’ (‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’) to show that none achieves maximum fidelity. The contrasting versions reflect divergent translation strategies that make the anglicized Weber a protean figure whose voice and meaning come through unevenly. The comparison points to a need for broader scholarly attention to…
Sport and the Nation in the Global Age 1
In the global age, nations remain actors on courts and fields. Using sport for national self-definition became the global thing to do. International competitions, as noted, helped to reinforce that norm. Early-modern nation-building did more than give cultural backing to emerging states: it also made the nation the norm. The status of ‘national’ games is not fixed in any case, showing that the nation is not a uniform, and uniformly important, con…
Globalization and World Culture
Ron Eyerman, The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
Redefining National Identity: Dutch Evidence on Global Patterns
This article uses evidence drawn from Dutch policy arenas to challenge claims about the erosion of national identity due to globalization. More specifically, it complements and revises neoinstitutionalist arguments about the enactment of world culture within nation-states by showing how the redefinition of national identity takes the form of reflexive discourse, varies across sectors and over time, and entwines local with global pressures. Reinfo…
Imagined communities in the global game: Soccer and the development of Dutch national identity
Using the recent history of Dutch soccer as an illustrative case, this article supports a line of argument in globalization studies that generally focuses on the variable reverberations of globalization and more specifically suggests that globalization entails the embattled redefinition of national identities. I show how the involvement of the Dutch national team in global competition aided the construction of a myth of national football distinct…
World Culture: Origins and Consequences
National Identity and Globalization: Policy Paths and the Process of Reimagining Community
The Institutional Order: Economy, Kinship, Religion, Polity, Law, and Education in Evolutionary and Comparative Perspective
1.The Institutional Structure of Society. 2.Economy. 3.Economy in Institutional Context. 4.Kinship. 5.Kinship in Institutional Context. 6.Religion. 7.Religion in Institutional Context. 8.Polity. 9.Polity in Institutional Context. 10.Law. 11.Law in Institutional Context. 12.Education. 13.Education in Institutional Context. 14.Fundamental Interchanges in the Institutional Order
Parsons on citizenship
In Parsons's analysis of citizenship, his general theory, liberal views, and assessment of American society intersect. Drawing from these distinctive sources, Parsons addresses questions still central to the study of citizenship. While Parsons presents a strong case for inclusion by means of liberal citizenship as an integrative force in modern societies, his treatment of inclusion is also limited in several respects. For example, Parsons elabora…
Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements . Martin E. Marty , R. Scott Appleby Accounting for Fundamentalisms: Fundamentalisms Comprehended . Martin E. Marty , R. Scott Appleb…
Commentary and Debate
Constructing the Nation-State: International Organization and Prescriptive Action
Foreword by John W. Meyer Abbreviations A World of Nation-States The World Polity in Perspective Transnational Agencies and Forces: International Organizations and the World Polity The Determination of Statehood: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Shifts Prescribing State Practice: Accounting for Progress Policy Prescriptions: Ideology in State Structure and Practice An Institutional Profile: Constructing the Nation-State Appendix: Coding Scheme…
Rejoinder to Stark and Iannaccone: "Heads, I Win…": On Immunizing a Theory
in their original article on the secularization of Europe, Stark and Iannaccone proposed that in times past Europe had not been all that religious, that no European nation is today (1994: 231), and that will take a much shorter time to church Europe than it took to church the United States (249). They now sensibly concede that at least in the recent past one European society had been heavily churched, acknowledge that religious participation ther…
Secularization in the Netherlands
This paper refutes Stark and Iannaccone's recent argument about secularization in Europe as applied to the Netherlands. Relevant Dutch evidence shows that both organized religion and subjective religiosity have declined in the Netherlands since the 1950s. Any deregulation and increases in pluralism that occurred in that period did not have the theoretically expected effects. The anomalous Dutch case casts further doubt on the explanatory power of…
Fundamentalisms Observed
Journal Article Fundamentalisms Observed (The Fundamentalism Project, Volume I), Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education (The Fundamentalism Project, Volume 2), and Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance (The Fundamentalism Project, Volume 3), edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby. Get access Frank Lechner Frank Lechner Emory University Search for other works by …
Culture, Globalization, and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity
Introduction.- A.D.King The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.- S.Hall Old and New Identities.- S.Hall Social Theory, Cultural Relativity and the Politics of Globality.- R.Robertson The National and the Universal: Can there be such a thing as World Culture?.- I.Wallerstein Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures.- U.Hannerz Interrogating Theories of the Global.- J.AbuLughod, B.Abou-el-Haj, M.Turim, A.King & J.Tagg The Global and the Spe…
Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective
World Culture: Origins and Consequences
Modernization, Globalization and the Problem of Culture in World-Systems Theory
Simmel on Social Space
The Case against Secularization: A Rebuttal
Secularization in the Netherlands
This paper refutes Stark and Iannaccone's recent argument about secularization in Europe as applied to the Netherlands. Relevant Dutch evidence shows that both organized religion and subjective religiosity have declined in the Netherlands since the 1950s. Any deregulation and increases in pluralism that occurred in that period did not have the theoretically expected effects. The anomalous Dutch case casts further doubt on the explanatory power of…
Redefining National Identity: Dutch Evidence on Global Patterns
This article uses evidence drawn from Dutch policy arenas to challenge claims about the erosion of national identity due to globalization. More specifically, it complements and revises neoinstitutionalist arguments about the enactment of world culture within nation-states by showing how the redefinition of national identity takes the form of reflexive discourse, varies across sectors and over time, and entwines local with global pressures. Reinfo…
Imagined communities in the global game: Soccer and the development of Dutch national identity
Using the recent history of Dutch soccer as an illustrative case, this article supports a line of argument in globalization studies that generally focuses on the variable reverberations of globalization and more specifically suggests that globalization entails the embattled redefinition of national identities. I show how the involvement of the Dutch national team in global competition aided the construction of a myth of national football distinct…
Fundamentalism and Sociocultural Revitalization in America: A Sociological Interpretation
Journal Article Fundamentalism and Sociocultural Revitalization in America: A Sociological Interpretation Get access Frank J. Lechner Frank J. Lechner Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 3, Fall 1985, Pages 243–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710692 Published: 01 October 1985
National Socialism: Towards an Action‐theoretical Interpretation
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
Parsons on citizenship
In Parsons's analysis of citizenship, his general theory, liberal views, and assessment of American society intersect. Drawing from these distinctive sources, Parsons addresses questions still central to the study of citizenship. While Parsons presents a strong case for inclusion by means of liberal citizenship as an integrative force in modern societies, his treatment of inclusion is also limited in several respects. For example, Parsons elabora…
Sociology as a vocation
Commentary and Debate
Simmel's Soziologie in translation: A critical analysis
Using illustrative passages and comparisons with previous partial translations, this paper reports some problems of accuracy and tone in the complete English translation of Georg Simmel's sociological magnum opus, Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms. Placing these problems in the context of broader discussions of translation projects, it urges caution on the part of anglophone readers and suggests that some older translatio…
Versions of Vocation: Max Weber’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’ in Translation11I would like to thank Peter Höyng, Suzanne Lechner and reviewers for their helpful comments
Catholicism and Social Change in the Netherlands: A Case of Radical Secularization
Critique de la theorie de John A. Coleman, The Evolution of Dutch Catholicism, 1958-74 , Berkeley, 1978
Ethnicity and Revitalization in the Modern World System
A “romantic syndrome” is defined as that type of anti-modern revitalisation movement which is oriented to resolving the discontents produced by universalistic inclusion in modern societies, by means of reintegration in terms of presumed historical community. The theme, thrust, and internal tensions of ethnic movements are analyzed along lines suggested by the ideal-typical romantic syndrome. The form and emergence of ethnic-romantic movements are…
National Socialism: Towards an Action‐theoretical Interpretation
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
Ethnicity and Revitalization in the Modern World System
A “romantic syndrome” is defined as that type of anti-modern revitalisation movement which is oriented to resolving the discontents produced by universalistic inclusion in modern societies, by means of reintegration in terms of presumed historical community. The theme, thrust, and internal tensions of ethnic movements are analyzed along lines suggested by the ideal-typical romantic syndrome. The form and emergence of ethnic-romantic movements are…
On Swanson: An Appreciation and an Appraisal
Roland Robertson, Frank Lechner; On Swanson: An Appreciation and an Appraisal, Sociology of Religion, Volume 45, Issue 3, 1 October 1984, Pages 185–204, https
Parsons' Action Theory and the Common Culture Thesis
Fundamentalism and Sociocultural Revitalization in America: A Sociological Interpretation
Journal Article Fundamentalism and Sociocultural Revitalization in America: A Sociological Interpretation Get access Frank J. Lechner Frank J. Lechner Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 46, Issue 3, Fall 1985, Pages 243–259, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710692 Published: 01 October 1985
From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism
Modernization, Globalization and the Problem of Culture in World-Systems Theory
American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity. James Davison Hunter Religion in American Public Life. A. James Reichley
La Vie Religieuse des Francais a Travers les Sondages d'Opinion (1944-1976)
Journal Article La Vie Religieuse des Francais à Travers les Sondages d'Opinion (1944–1976), by Jacques Sutter. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984, 1350 pp. (2 Vols.). $79.00 Get access Frank Lechner Frank Lechner Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 4, Winter 1987, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710945 Publishe…
Talcott Parsons on Economy and Society. Robert J. Holton , Bryan S. Turner
Religion and Rural Revolt
Theory of Action: Towards a New Synthesis Going Beyond Parsons
Fundamentalism revisited
Catholicism and Social Change in the Netherlands: A Case of Radical Secularization
Critique de la theorie de John A. Coleman, The Evolution of Dutch Catholicism, 1958-74 , Berkeley, 1978
One Nation under God? Christian Faith and Political Action in America
Social Differentiation and Modernity: On Simmel’s Macrosociology
Sociology as a vocation
Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World
Journal Article Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World, edited by Emile Sahliyeh. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990, ix + 374 pp. $17.95 Get access Frank J. Lechner Frank J. Lechner Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 1991, Pages 415–416, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710855 Published: 01 December 1991
The Case against Secularization: A Rebuttal
Simmel on Social Space
Culture, Globalization, and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity
Introduction.- A.D.King The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.- S.Hall Old and New Identities.- S.Hall Social Theory, Cultural Relativity and the Politics of Globality.- R.Robertson The National and the Universal: Can there be such a thing as World Culture?.- I.Wallerstein Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures.- U.Hannerz Interrogating Theories of the Global.- J.AbuLughod, B.Abou-el-Haj, M.Turim, A.King & J.Tagg The Global and the Spe…
Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective
Secularization Revisited
Journal Article Secularization Revisited Get access Frank J. Lechner Frank J. Lechner Emory University Direct correspondence to Frank J. Lechner, Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 71, Issue 1, September 1992, Pages 225–228, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/71.1.225 Published: 01 September 1992
Dutch Religion: The Religious Consciousness of the Netherlands after the Cultural Revolution
Fundamentalisms Observed
Journal Article Fundamentalisms Observed (The Fundamentalism Project, Volume I), Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education (The Fundamentalism Project, Volume 2), and Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance (The Fundamentalism Project, Volume 3), edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby. Get access Frank Lechner Frank Lechner Emory University Search for other works by …
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