From Societas to World Society

Genealogy of a Concept

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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From Societas to World Society offers a genealogy of what is arguably sociology’s most important concept, that of “society.” The book covers this concept’s entire intellectual history from its first systematization in Roman law 2,500 years ago to its crystallization in what Schmidt calls today's default model, informing both empirical research and theoretical logic in the social sciences, which he shows to be highly problematic. As an alternative, Schmidt suggests a conceptualization building upon Niklas Luhmann’s theory of world society, which can be utilized for overcoming the former’s Eurocentrism and to lay the groundwork for a genuinely global social science.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-22
Mått155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt795 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTheory Workshop
Antal sidor383
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004727106

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AcknowledgementsList of FiguresConventions1 Introduction: Society as a Social Science ConceptPART 1: Foundations: Fifth Century BCE to the Late Middle AgesIntroduction2 The Roman Societates1 The Economic Societas2 The Military Societas3 Societas Civilis3 After the Collapse of Empire: Societas and Societas Civils in the Medieval Age4 The Medieval Theory of Civil Society: Law, Theology, and Philosophy1 The Evolution of Roman Law2 The Evolution of Christian Theology and Canon Law3 The Evolution of Civil Society Theory5 Fast Forward: Societas in the Modern AgeConcluding SummaryPART 2: Political Theories of Society and the Emergence of Sociology, 17th to Early 20th CenturiesIntroduction6 Social Contract Theories: Althusius, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Spencer7 Society and Community: Ferdinand Tönnies1 Society2 Community8 Two Classical Sociologists: Max Weber and Émile Durkheim1 Weber2 DurkheimConcluding SummaryPART 3: 20th Century Theories of SocietyIntroduction9 Talcott Parsons10 Niklas Luhmann11 Jürgen Habermas12 Pierre BourdieuConcluding SummaryPART 4: Globalization and the Emergence of “World Society” Introduction13 Challenges to Sociology’s Default Model of Society14 Responses: the World Society Theories of Immanuel Wallerstein and John W. Meyer1 Wallerstein2 Meyer15 A Comprehensive Alternative: Luhmann Again – and BeyondConcluding Summary16 Conclusion: Toward a Tenable Concept of SocietyBibliographyIndex