Out of Utopia
Toward a Reorientation of Sociological Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20051329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ralf Dahrendorf (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 103-126 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351300407-8 |
| OpenAlex | W2050449759 |
| ISBN | 9781351300407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 98 |
All utopias from Plato's Republic to George Orwell's brave new world of 1984 have had one element of construction in common: they are all societies from which change is absent. Utopian societies have certain structural requisites; they must display certain features in order to be what they purport to be. First, utopias do not grow out of familiar reality following realistic patterns of development. A second structural characteristic of utopias seems to be the uniformity of such societies or, to use more technical language, the existence of universal consensus on prevailing values and institutional arrangements. Finally, to add a more obvious observation, utopias generally seem to be curiously isolated from all other communities. The striking preoccupation of sociological theory with the related problems of reproduction, socialization, and role allocation or, on the institutional level, with the family, the educational system, and the division of labor fits in well with the authors' comparison of this type of theory and utopian societies
Art history · Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History · Philosophy
Metatheorizing in a Postpositivist Frame
Out of Utopia
The politics of development — An analysis
Functionalism, History of
Between Science and the Humanities
Social Conflict Theories of the Family
Institutions and Their Design
A Relational Theory of World Politics
Kiertotalouden kapitalistinen utopia
Sociological Theory Today
Years of German Sociology after World War II
Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs. Functionalist and Conformist Theories
Jahre deutscher Nachkriegssoziologie — Institutionalisierung und Theorie
Sozialanthropologisch erklärte Gewalt
Tras el búho de Minerva
Embattled Legacy
Opting out' in theravada buddhism and medieval christianity
A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Conflict in Schools
Toward a Theory of Community Conflict
A Conception of Man and Society for Criminology
From Conflict Theory to Conflict Methodology
Conflict and Social Change
Methodological Issues in the Study of Development
Reflections on a Centennial
Collaboration and Competition in Two Colonization Projects
Anthropological Views of Community and Community Development
Talcott Parsons and the Theory of Action. I. The Structure of the Kantian Core
Introduction
In Defense of Modernity
Values and Mainstream Sociology
An Assessment of Disproportionate Minority Confinement
On the Parsonian Approach to Theory Construction
Justifiable Arrests or Discretionary Justice
Social Theory's Methodological Nationalism
Galt's Gulch
The Problem of Epistemology in the Social Action Perspective
Des p’tits culs aux gangs de rue. Action concertée et enjeux définitionnels1
Logiques ordinaires de régulation et recours à la police
De la bureaucratie comme système d'organisation
Theoretical Integration and Unification
Flight and Integration
The Limitations of Functional Analysis in Mass Communications Research
Social Work, Social Welfare, and the American Family
Conflict to coexistence
The logic of bureaucratic back scratching
Beyond the Beyond
Teaching Social Theory with an Applied Perspective
Dreaming through the Ages
Organization as containment of acquisitive mimetic rivalry
Debating ‘uneven and combined development’
Methodological nationalism and the domestic analogy
Culture’, ‘society’and the figure of man
Movement as utopia
Integrating Reciprocal Perspectives
American and European Social Theory
Marxist Axioms as Self-Contradictory Parsonian Statements in Sociology
Confrontations and Controversies in the Theory of Talcott Parsons
Systems Analysis and Sociological Theory
Controversial Mascots
Changing Social Policies on Mental Retardation
Models of (future) society
Discussions with Professor Parsons & Ken’ichi Tominaga
Addressing Parsons in Sociological Textbooks
First Encounters of the Bureaucratic Kind
Utopianism in the Age of Capitalocene
Talcott Parsons and the Theory of Action. II. The Continuity of the Development
Dynamic Diversity
Desigualdade de oportunidades no Brasil
Anomia and Sin in Durkheim's Thought
Culture, state and economic development in Singapore
Situations de tort dans la vie quotidienne
Organizational Interdependence and Intra-Organizational Structure
Language, Interaction, and Social Problems
Models and the Social Anthropology of Women
Poder
Theories of Revolution
Estigma, intenções e estados-de-espírito
Utopia as political theory
Nakane's Japanese society as utopian thought
Does socialism need fraternity? On Axel Honneth’sThe Idea of Socialism
Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action
On the Concept of Ideology in Political Science
Power and Social Exchange
Ecological Niche Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology
Socioeconomic inequality and psychopathology
Concealed Silences and Inaudible Voices in Political Thinking
Culture, Environment, and the Ills of Adaptationism [and Comments and Reply]
Worlds come apart
Reflections on public sociology
A world from brave to new
Practicing Harmony Ideology
The Structural Transformation of Sociology
Sociological Theory from the Chicago Dominance to 1965
Sociology and the Modern Scientific Revolution
Parsons as a Symbolic Interactionist
Critical Theory and Critical Sociology
Talcott Parsons and the Transformation of German Society at the End of World War II
Structure After 50 Years
| Unique citing works | 98 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,51 |
| Citation span | 1961 - 2025 (65) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 95 |