CONTENTS:
Introduction: The Neofunctionalist Movement
Part I - Generalized Discourse
A. Metatheory
J. C. Alexander and P. Colomy (1985), 'Toward Neofunctionalism'
Sociological Theory'
J.C. Alexander (1978), 'Formal and Substantive Voluntarism in the Work of Talcott Parsons: A Theoretical and Ideological Reinterpretation'
R. Muench (1986), 'The American Creed in Sociological Theory Exchange, Negotiated Order, Accommodated Individualism and Contingency'
M. Gould (1981), 'Parsons Versus Marx: "An Earnest Warning..."'
B. Theory and Ideology
L. Mayhew (1984), 'In Defense of Modernity: Talcott Parsons and the Utilitarian Tradition'
D. Sciulli (1986), 'Voluntaristic Action as a Distinct Concept:
Theoretical Foundations of Societal Constitutionalism'
C. Models
N. Luhmann (1984), 'The Self-Description of Society: Crisis Fashion and Sociological Theory'
R. Muench (1983), 'Modern Science and Technology: Differentiation or Interpenetration?'
Part II - Selected Research Programmes
A. Sociology of Culture, Religion and Science
J. C. Alexander (1984), 'Three Models of Culture and Society Relations: Toward an Analysis of Watergate'
N. Luhmann (1985), 'Society, Meaning, Religion - Based on
Self-Reference'
S. Fuchs (1986), 'The Social Organization of Scientific Knowledge'
B. Social Change
S. N. Eisenstadt (1980), 'Cultural Orientations, Institutional
Entrepreneurs, and Social Change: Comparative Analysis of Traditional Civilizations'
R. Robertson and F. Lechner (1985), 'Modernization, Globalization, and the Problem of Culture in World-Systems Theory'
P. B. Colomy (1986), 'Recent Developments in the Functionalist
Approach to Change'
C. Professions and Inequality
B. Barber (1978), 'Control and Responsibility in the Powerful
Professions'
B. Barber (1978), 'Inequality and Occupational Prestige: Theory,
Research, and Social Policy'
D. Political Sociology
E. W. Lehman (1988), 'The Theory of the State Versus the State of
Theory'
E. Feminist Sociology: Personality, Socialization and Family
M. M. Johnson, J. Stockard, J. Acker and C. Naffziger (1975),
'Expressiveness Reevaluated'
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