Irrational Capitalism
The Social Map, Neoliberalism and the Demodernization of the West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2369887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Bone (0000-0002-9569-6340, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author), John David Bone (University of Aberdeen) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 717-740 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0896920510371387 |
| OpenAlex | W2015588587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article argues that the current trajectory of neoliberal led global development can be seen to have unleashed a regressive process of 'demodernization' within Western 'developed' economies and beyond. Informed by a developing 'neurosociological' theory, the article sets out to offer an original perspective on some widely debated issues, namely why the current era can be seen to have been marked by a regressive decline in 'modern' rational order, progress and faith in the future and a concomitant rise in irrationality, short-termism, mindless bureaucratization, instability, de-structuring and unpredictability. This trend, it is argued, due to its incompatibility with fundamental human 'needs', has dismantled the necessary conditions for personal and communal well-being, undermining socio-economic stability and social cohesion within the neoliberal societies that fostered and embraced this doctrine and, to a greater or lesser extent, within all nations connected to the global economy
Bureaucracy · Capitalism · Development economics · Doctrine · Economic system · Economics · Irrationality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Law · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · World Systems and Global Transformations
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Scotland and England’s colliding nationalisms
Rediscovering the ‘Noble Savage’
Ethics review, neoliberal governmentality and the activation of moral subjects’
New Wild Fields
The nature of structure
Informed, educated and more confident
Neoliberal precarity and primalization
The Nature of Structure
Neoliberal Nomads
The Neoliberal Phoenix
The Politics of Economic Change
The Disneyization of Society
The Medicalization of Society
Human emotion and memory
Child wellbeing and income inequality in rich societies
L'Effondrement des Societes Complexes
The social construction of reality
Social Structure and Anomie
“The Metropolis and Mental Life”
The Impact of Inequality
Social Identity
The magical number seven, plus or minus two
The Social Map
Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century
A Brief History of the Human Race
The Warm Glow Heuristic
Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis
The Division of Labour in Society
Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates
Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction
The Urban Revolution
Social Structure and Anomie
The Hard Sell
The Disneyization of Society
Classes in Modern Society
Global Modernity
Globally Segmented Labor Markets
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,87 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |