Towards the strategies of modern societies

While several sociological theories have traditionally dealt with rational action by human actors, little attention has been devoted to the possibilities for rational steering of the entire subsystems of functionally differentiated modern societies in the context of their increasing complexity. Although rational intentional action is clearly limited at the macro-level by the complexity emphasized by Luhmann's social systems theory, strategies are required to approach the normative ideal of active society as defined by Etzioni. Understanding the strategic processes requires micro–macro and agency–structure connections. A possible solution to understanding strategy as a social process in this respect is found in the adaptation of the three-level – individuality, reality and totality – approach of Sztompka's theory of social becoming

Action (physics · Adaptation (eye · Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Macro · Management science · Normative · Process (computing · Social complexity · Social science · Social system · Sociological theory · Sociology · Structure and agency · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology

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