Understanding Modernity : Toward a new perspective going beyond Durkheim and Weber (Hardcover)

Part I: Between Positivism, Idealism and Voluntarism: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim  1. The Convergence Between Weber and Durkheim: Interpretation and Explanation, the sacred and the profane  2. The divergence between Weber and Durkheim: Rational and Affectual Bases of Modern Social Order  Part II: Social Order and Individual Anatomy  3. Community and Social Order  4. Socialization and Personality Development  Part III: The Unique Nature, Formation, Development and Structural Problems of the Modern Social Order: Max Weber  5. `Capitalism' and `Occidental rationalism': Two Perspectives on the analysis of the Structural Problems in Modern Societies  6. Via Parsons to Weber: From the Theory of Rationalization to the Theory of Interpenetration