Jak sociologie přichází o společnost

• Authors: Keller Jan

Title variants

EN

HOW SOCIOLOGY IS ABANDONING SOCIETY

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article analyses the development and the current situation in sociology in relation to the transformations that contemporary society is going through. The author explores some basic sociological questions in an examination of the character of institutions and forms of social stratification, showing how deeply these questions are connected with the character of 'organised modernity'. He analyses the transformations of society since the 1970s and studies the concepts connected with the increase in insecurity and the decline in trust within society. In this context he analyses the concepts of social capital, networks, and trust. He shows that these concepts are incapable of establishing a link between the actors and the system as a whole. A sociology that dismisses society from the sets of strategies of individual action only contributes to the general trend of privatising the public sphere for the benefit of private interests.

Keywords

EN

CURRENT SOCIOLOGY; ORGANIZED MODERNITY; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RISKS; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 989-1007
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Keller Jan

• Jan Keller, Fakulta socialnich studii Ostravske univerzity, Frani Sramka 3, Ostrava, 709 00, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/3549/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA05526