Tradition and Innovation: The Idea of Civilization As Culture and Its Significance - Couverture rigide

Wilson, H.T.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1032636513 ISBN 13 : 9781032636511

Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

First published in 1984 Tradition and Innovation by viewing Western civilization as a culture, puts the common perspectives of our major Western institutions in bolder relief. The author shows how the institutionalization of central modes of Western rationality-found in capitalism, industrialization, science, science - based technology, bureaucracy, the rule of law, the social and behavioral sciences-has created a culturally and historically unique form of collective life: advanced industrial society. Indicative of this development is the nature and meaning of the so-called innovative society itself, where rationality is increasingly seen to repose in institutions and organized structures rather than in individuals.

Professor Wilson argues that this rationality is becoming traditionalized as a central artifact of our form of life, one which believes in the independent existence of the 'facts of life'. This is borne out by the increasing autonomy of what professor Wilson calls 'disembodied disciplined observation', determined as it is to annihilate contemplation and reflection in its effort to reconstitute practice in its own image. This is an interesting read for students of sociology, political science, public administration, and social science in general.

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À propos de l'auteur

H. T. Wilson

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032636513
• ISBN 13: 9781032636511
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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