David Sciulli
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Sciulli |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Sciulli |
| SIGNATURE | SCIULLI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Parsons, Talcott (1902–79)
Democracy, Professions and Societal Constitutionalism
Why Professions Matter: Structural Invariance, Institutional Consequences, Bias
Received wisdom in the sociology of professions employs two approaches, a narrow socio-economic approach (largely in the Anglo-American world) and a much broader cultural and social-psychological approach (largely on the Continent). Both approaches agree on two points. First, professions cannot be distinguished at a conceptual level from other occupations. Second, whatever consequences either successful or failed professionalism introduces into c…
Professions and Burgertum: Etymological Ships Passing, Night into Day
None of the continental languages, either historically or during postwar decades, developed indigenously synonyms for professions or roughly equivalent terms. Even today, instead of studying professions in particular, continental sociologists typically study much broader socio-economic and socio-cultural formations. Thus, when Anglo-American sociologists were developing the sociology of professions before and after World War II, European sociolog…
Painting, Law and Professions, I: Paris Visual Academie and English Law
One consensus in the sociology and history of professions is that law, not medicine, pioneered the first professionalism projects in Western history. English law is typically cited as the exemplar. We challenge this consensus by demonstrating that visual academies, led by the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture of Paris, preceded along a professionalism project centuries in advance of English law
Painting, Law and Professions, II: Paris Visual Academie and French Law
Aside from English law being cited as pioneering the first professionalism project, French law is also frequently treated as an exemplar of early professionalism. We challenge this consensus by demonstrating that the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture of Paris preceded along a professionalism project centuries in advance of French law. Using this comparison, we also provide alternative explanations for questions and issues which remain t…
Professions before Professionalism
For over seventy years the sociology of professions has revolved around empirical generalizations drawn from four modern exemplars of nineteenth century Britain and United States: law and medicine, science and engineering. We identify qualities constitutive of professionalism in an occupation during the ancien regime, on the Continent, and in a field unrelated to the four just noted: seventeenth century French painting and sculpture. These consti…
Paris Visual Académie as First Prototype Profession: Rethinking the Sociology of Professions
Visual academies were unique social formations in the ancien régime, so distinctive that they are best studied as prototype professions. Alone among academies, they were responsible for offering instruction. Alone among educational institutions, they linked liberal instruction to occupational practice. Alone among 'learned' occupations, they accommodated an irreducible manual component. The visual Académie in Paris in particular established liter…
Escaping without Eliding an Atlantic Divide, Etymological and Conceptual
Continental Sociology of Professions Today: Conceptual Contributions
Continental sociologists did not contribute to the sociology of professions until the 1980s in part because no continental language developed indigenously a synonym for profession. Today, however, some continental sociologists are contributing to this literature, but they are inadvertently recapitulating within it the theories and concepts that for decades were applied to the middle classes more generally. This article explores why these theories…
Corporate Power in Civil Society: An Application of Societal Constitutionalism
The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated? Who has the authority to get things done in a corporation's name and who can be h…
Comment lire Parsons aujourd'hui en sociologie politique comparée
Pourquoi un spécialiste de la sociologie politique comparée devrait-il lire Talcott Parsons aujourd'hui et comment devrait-il le lire? Cet article démontre que les écrits de Parsons à partir de 1937 constituent trois séries distinctes et que les ouvrages de la troisième série demeurent non seulement intéressants en sociologie comparée, mais qu'ils sont aussi indispensables pour traiter des questions et des controverses actuelles que n'importe que…
Societies, Corporations and the Nation State: The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology – Volume 7
‘Reconsidering the classics’ is the theme of this selection of papers, from the 1997 Cologne conference of the International Institute of Sociology. This does not imply going back to their answers, but to their topics. Some of the issues covered in this volume are: freedom of societies; the privatisation of belief, ethnicity, and globalisation; East-West relations; and institutional rehabilitation. The book includes articles by major contemporary…
Corporations vs. the Court: Private Power, Public Interests
This text looks methodically at corporate law, corporate governance, and judicial practice from the perspective of social theory. The author explores whether there are identifiable limits - legal or normative - to corporate power in any democratic society
The New Public: Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence
Professional specialists, using market research and promotional campaigns, have come to dominate public communication. The modern public of the Enlightenment, based on free discussion, has, in Leon Mayhew's terms, been replaced by a 'New Public,' subject to mass persuasion through systematic advertising, lobbying, and other forms of media manipulation. Mayhew examines this sociological development in terms of discourse and social influence, offer…
Response to Senechal—courage and care in “Blackian” social theory: A word in praise of Senechal de la Roche
Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition.Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Donald Black's Positivism in Law and Social Control
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Donald Black's Positivism in Law and Social Control
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Social Contracts and Economic Markets
Constructing the Social System
Barber constructs a provisional, generalized, substantive theory of the social system, which he uses as the starting point and focus of his specialized researches. In this collection of his major writings in social system theory, Barber shows how he has used and developed such a framework over the last fifty years and demonstrates the application of social system theory and its contribution to these areas
An Interview with Niklas Luhmann
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism: Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory
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…
Does Chafetz need any defense: All over but the shouting
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism. Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory
Continental Sociology of Professions Today: Conceptual Contributions
Continental sociologists did not contribute to the sociology of professions until the 1980s in part because no continental language developed indigenously a synonym for profession. Today, however, some continental sociologists are contributing to this literature, but they are inadvertently recapitulating within it the theories and concepts that for decades were applied to the middle classes more generally. This article explores why these theories…
Voluntaristic Action as a Distinct Concept: Theoretical Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism
Social Theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
An Interview with Niklas Luhmann
Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism: Principles from the Concepts of Communicative Action and Procedural Legality
Paris Visual Académie as First Prototype Profession: Rethinking the Sociology of Professions
Visual academies were unique social formations in the ancien régime, so distinctive that they are best studied as prototype professions. Alone among academies, they were responsible for offering instruction. Alone among educational institutions, they linked liberal instruction to occupational practice. Alone among 'learned' occupations, they accommodated an irreducible manual component. The visual Académie in Paris in particular established liter…
Why Professions Matter: Structural Invariance, Institutional Consequences, Bias
Received wisdom in the sociology of professions employs two approaches, a narrow socio-economic approach (largely in the Anglo-American world) and a much broader cultural and social-psychological approach (largely on the Continent). Both approaches agree on two points. First, professions cannot be distinguished at a conceptual level from other occupations. Second, whatever consequences either successful or failed professionalism introduces into c…
Talcott Parsons's Analytical Critique of Marxism's Concept of Alienation
Parsons's approach to the problem of alienation is compared with the Marxian use of the concept, as illustrated by C. B. Macpherson's critique of power in liberal-democratic societies. Macpherson shows that disalienation is possible in Marxist theory only if material abundance or undifferentiated access to the means of production is provided. In contrast, Parsons's approach to the study of modern society emphasizes that differentiated responsibil…
Professions and Burgertum: Etymological Ships Passing, Night into Day
None of the continental languages, either historically or during postwar decades, developed indigenously synonyms for professions or roughly equivalent terms. Even today, instead of studying professions in particular, continental sociologists typically study much broader socio-economic and socio-cultural formations. Thus, when Anglo-American sociologists were developing the sociology of professions before and after World War II, European sociolog…
Professions before Professionalism
For over seventy years the sociology of professions has revolved around empirical generalizations drawn from four modern exemplars of nineteenth century Britain and United States: law and medicine, science and engineering. We identify qualities constitutive of professionalism in an occupation during the ancien regime, on the Continent, and in a field unrelated to the four just noted: seventeenth century French painting and sculpture. These consti…
The deserved marginalization of theory
Escaping without Eliding an Atlantic Divide, Etymological and Conceptual
Habermas, Critical Theory, and the Relativistic Predicament
Habermas' critical theory stands or falls on the unity of procedural reason. When Stephen Toulmin raised the problem of reason being differentiated by functions and purposes within each field of argumentation, whether law, medicine, science, or politics, Habermas' response was both weak and vague. This paper proposes how Habermas may concede Toulmin's point, and yet demonstrate that it does not ultimately challenge the unity of procedural reason …
Political Networks: The Structural Perspective
Reconsidering Blumer's Corrective Against the Excesses of Functionalism
Blumer's corrective to Parsons' excesses is presented against a backdrop provided by two reformulations of Parsons' concepts: The problems of social order is recast as the problem of nonauthoritarian social order, and voluntaristic action is distinguished from normative action. Blumer's corrective, then, was to see that distinctively voluntaristic action is ineluctably the product of actors' negotiations of meaning (whereas both purposive-rationa…
Talcott Parsons's Analytical Critique of Marxism's Concept of Alienation
Parsons's approach to the problem of alienation is compared with the Marxian use of the concept, as illustrated by C. B. Macpherson's critique of power in liberal-democratic societies. Macpherson shows that disalienation is possible in Marxist theory only if material abundance or undifferentiated access to the means of production is provided. In contrast, Parsons's approach to the study of modern society emphasizes that differentiated responsibil…
There are Limits to Evertything: Reply to Gottdiener
Social Theory and Talcott Parsons in the 1980
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Modern Social Theory: From Parsons to Habermas
1. Introduction: What's Wrong with Theory and Why We Still Need It. 2. Cutting a Path Through the Jungle. PART 1: THEORIES OF SOCIAL ACTION. 3. Introduction. 4. Parsons: Theory as a Filing System. 5. Structural-Functionalism. 6. Neofunctionalism. 7. Rational Choice Theory: 'The Price of Everything' Symbolic Interactionism: Society as Conversation. 8. Society as Conspiracy: Phenomenological Sociology and Ethnomethodology. 9. Structuration Theory: …
Voluntaristic Action as a Distinct Concept: Theoretical Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism
Morality, Normative Restraints on Arbitrary Power, and Marxism
Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism: Principles from the Concepts of Communicative Action and Procedural Legality
Reconsidering Blumer's Corrective Against the Excesses of Functionalism
Blumer's corrective to Parsons' excesses is presented against a backdrop provided by two reformulations of Parsons' concepts: The problems of social order is recast as the problem of nonauthoritarian social order, and voluntaristic action is distinguished from normative action. Blumer's corrective, then, was to see that distinctively voluntaristic action is ineluctably the product of actors' negotiations of meaning (whereas both purposive-rationa…
Social Theory and Modern Sociology.Anthony Giddens
The deserved marginalization of theory
Liberalism: Politics, Ideology and the Market. John A. Hall
Challenges to Weberians' Treatments of Collegiality: Comment on Waters
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism: Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory
Sciulli argues that the existing conceptual frameworks of political and social theory restrict both theorists and empirical researchers to a narrow definition of authoritarianism. This 1992 book focuses on government structure and fails to take account of forms of social control exercised outside the governmental sphere. Rather than define authoritarianism primarily by contrast to liberal democracy, Sciulli argues, we need to broaden our concepti…
Political Networks: The Structural Perspective
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism: Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory.
Theory of societal constitutionalism: Foundations of a non-Marxist critical theory
The problem of social authoritarianism is commonplace in practice, and yet it exceeds the scope of application of existing social and political theories. When private organizations and institutions wield their collective power arbitrarily within a modern civil society, a nation-state's government and economy may remain (or become) liberal-democratic and pluralistic. Actors, however, experience increasing social control in their everyday lives." "…
Habermas, Critical Theory, and the Relativistic Predicament
Habermas' critical theory stands or falls on the unity of procedural reason. When Stephen Toulmin raised the problem of reason being differentiated by functions and purposes within each field of argumentation, whether law, medicine, science, or politics, Habermas' response was both weak and vague. This paper proposes how Habermas may concede Toulmin's point, and yet demonstrate that it does not ultimately challenge the unity of procedural reason …
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism: Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory
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…
Does Chafetz need any defense: All over but the shouting
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism. Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory
Constructing the Social System
Barber constructs a provisional, generalized, substantive theory of the social system, which he uses as the starting point and focus of his specialized researches. In this collection of his major writings in social system theory, Barber shows how he has used and developed such a framework over the last fifty years and demonstrates the application of social system theory and its contribution to these areas
An Interview with Niklas Luhmann
Donald Black's Positivism in Law and Social Control
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Donald Black's Positivism in Law and Social Control
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Social Contracts and Economic Markets
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