Anton C Zijderveld
Biographic Data
| ID | 251930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anton C Zijderveld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anton C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zijderveld |
| SIGNATURE | ZIJDERVELD A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The challenges of modernity
Berger’s corpus has often perplexed those schooled in America’s mainstream, functionalist, and positivist sociology - a style of sociological reasoning that has often displayed a chilling disregard for the classical European tradition of the discipline. For such people, his work is very often judged as superficial. Yet to conclude this is to fail to appreciate the profundity of Berger’s cognitive and stylistic virtuosity
The Waning of the Welfare State
The state in postwar Western Europe has been extended and intensified in a spectacular manner. Today, welfare represents a complex mix of services covering health, education, welfare, the arts, leisure, and social security. Anton C. Zijderveld is of the opinion that Europe's vast, comprehensive state is becoming leaner and meaner, heading down a more sober path toward decentralization and deregulation, which only, but not merely, secures order fo…
The Institutional Imperative
Even though we, as moderns or post-moderns, think we can be free, original and authentic, our actions, thoughts, and emotions are cast in patterns which we share with other individuals, which we did not invent, and which we pass on to the next generation. After we die, people will continue to act, think, and feel within the context of institutions like marriage, family, church, school, university, voluntary associations, et cetera. All these inst…
The Institutional Imperative
The Waning of the Welfare State
A Theory of Urbanity
The vertical division of the European welfare state
Humor, laughter, and sociological theory
This article explores the sociological implications of humor and laughter, examining how they function within social structures and interactions. It discusses various theoretical perspectives on humor, including the incongruity theory, the relief theory, and the superiority theory, and analyzes how these theories can be applied to understand social phenomena. The article also considers the role of humor in social control, conflict, and change, ar…
The Ethos of the Welfare State
The welfare state has arisen as a radical consequence of modernisation and may be associated with a variety of ideologies but often is not based on any explicitly. This raises the question of what ethos has the greatest 'elective affinity' with the welfare state and three ideal types of ethos are outlined: the moralistic, amoralist and immoralist. Whereas the United States and Japan exhibit moralistic traits, an Italian peasant society the amoral…
Conclusion
Humour and Laughter in the Social Fabric
Laughter
Humour
Introduction
On Cliches
Happy Auguries of the Decline of an Emergent Speciality
On Cliches
Sociology as a Skin Trade
The Problem of Adequacy Reflections on Alfred Schutz's Contribution to the Methodology of the Social Sciences
The theories of the Austrian-American philosopher and social scientist Alfred Schutz have been summarized and introduced sufficiently by various of his students. The purpose of the present paper is not to provide the reader with yet another comprehensive summary of his phenomenology and social theories but will try to formulate what Schutz has contributed to one of the most crucial issues in the methodology of the social sciences, namely the prob…
The Abstract Society
Structure and Meaning
Ever since the system-model of functionalism has been accused of being unable to adequately cover the phenomenon of social change, many functionalists have tried to convince their audience of the opposite. Eloquent revisions of the model have been constructed in an attempt to systematically explain the pervasive phenomenon in modern industrial society. Functionalists have attempted to analyse change by tracing its pattern of influence within the …
Essais de Sociologie Religieuse
Introduction
The Abstract Society
Sociology as a Skin Trade
The Problem of Adequacy Reflections on Alfred Schutz's Contribution to the Methodology of the Social Sciences
The theories of the Austrian-American philosopher and social scientist Alfred Schutz have been summarized and introduced sufficiently by various of his students. The purpose of the present paper is not to provide the reader with yet another comprehensive summary of his phenomenology and social theories but will try to formulate what Schutz has contributed to one of the most crucial issues in the methodology of the social sciences, namely the prob…
Humour and Laughter in the Social Fabric
The Waning of the Welfare State
The Ethos of the Welfare State
The welfare state has arisen as a radical consequence of modernisation and may be associated with a variety of ideologies but often is not based on any explicitly. This raises the question of what ethos has the greatest 'elective affinity' with the welfare state and three ideal types of ethos are outlined: the moralistic, amoralist and immoralist. Whereas the United States and Japan exhibit moralistic traits, an Italian peasant society the amoral…
Humor, laughter, and sociological theory
This article explores the sociological implications of humor and laughter, examining how they function within social structures and interactions. It discusses various theoretical perspectives on humor, including the incongruity theory, the relief theory, and the superiority theory, and analyzes how these theories can be applied to understand social phenomena. The article also considers the role of humor in social control, conflict, and change, ar…
Laughter
Essais de Sociologie Religieuse
Essais de Sociologie Religieuse
Structure and Meaning
Ever since the system-model of functionalism has been accused of being unable to adequately cover the phenomenon of social change, many functionalists have tried to convince their audience of the opposite. Eloquent revisions of the model have been constructed in an attempt to systematically explain the pervasive phenomenon in modern industrial society. Functionalists have attempted to analyse change by tracing its pattern of influence within the …
The Abstract Society
The Problem of Adequacy Reflections on Alfred Schutz's Contribution to the Methodology of the Social Sciences
The theories of the Austrian-American philosopher and social scientist Alfred Schutz have been summarized and introduced sufficiently by various of his students. The purpose of the present paper is not to provide the reader with yet another comprehensive summary of his phenomenology and social theories but will try to formulate what Schutz has contributed to one of the most crucial issues in the methodology of the social sciences, namely the prob…
Sociology as a Skin Trade
Happy Auguries of the Decline of an Emergent Speciality
On Cliches
On Cliches
Conclusion
Humour and Laughter in the Social Fabric
Laughter
Humour
Introduction
The Ethos of the Welfare State
The welfare state has arisen as a radical consequence of modernisation and may be associated with a variety of ideologies but often is not based on any explicitly. This raises the question of what ethos has the greatest 'elective affinity' with the welfare state and three ideal types of ethos are outlined: the moralistic, amoralist and immoralist. Whereas the United States and Japan exhibit moralistic traits, an Italian peasant society the amoral…
Humor, laughter, and sociological theory
This article explores the sociological implications of humor and laughter, examining how they function within social structures and interactions. It discusses various theoretical perspectives on humor, including the incongruity theory, the relief theory, and the superiority theory, and analyzes how these theories can be applied to understand social phenomena. The article also considers the role of humor in social control, conflict, and change, ar…
The vertical division of the European welfare state
A Theory of Urbanity
The Institutional Imperative
Even though we, as moderns or post-moderns, think we can be free, original and authentic, our actions, thoughts, and emotions are cast in patterns which we share with other individuals, which we did not invent, and which we pass on to the next generation. After we die, people will continue to act, think, and feel within the context of institutions like marriage, family, church, school, university, voluntary associations, et cetera. All these inst…
The Institutional Imperative
The Waning of the Welfare State
The Waning of the Welfare State
The state in postwar Western Europe has been extended and intensified in a spectacular manner. Today, welfare represents a complex mix of services covering health, education, welfare, the arts, leisure, and social security. Anton C. Zijderveld is of the opinion that Europe's vast, comprehensive state is becoming leaner and meaner, heading down a more sober path toward decentralization and deregulation, which only, but not merely, secures order fo…
The challenges of modernity
Berger’s corpus has often perplexed those schooled in America’s mainstream, functionalist, and positivist sociology - a style of sociological reasoning that has often displayed a chilling disregard for the classical European tradition of the discipline. For such people, his work is very often judged as superficial. Yet to conclude this is to fail to appreciate the profundity of Berger’s cognitive and stylistic virtuosity
Sociology (15 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Laughter (4 works)