Normative Intermittency: A Sociology of Failing Social Structuration

Contents
Chapter 1: The Path to Critical Sociology
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Part I: Societal Symptomatic
	Chapter 2: The Manifold Crisis of Complex Societies
		2.1 Missing Social Legitimation
		2.2 Social and Environmental Risks of ‘Crumbling Late Capitalism’
		2.3 The Shifting Idea of Socialism
		2.4 The Loss of the Welfare-State Compromise
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	Chapter 3: The Malaise of Normative Societal Structuration
		3.1 Normativity Beyond Defensive Modernity
		3.2 Secularism and Its Adversities
		3.3 Normative Intermittency in Qualitative Differentiated Societies
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	Chapter 4: Economic Liberalism and Social Fragmentation
		4.1 Functional Neutrality Lost: Colonising Society Through Economic Logic
		4.2 Increasing Social Fragmentation
		4.3 Societal Self-Interpretation and Sociological Critique
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Part II: Sociological Diagnosis
	Chapter 5: Evidences in Structure Theory
		5.1 Weakening Social Structuration
		5.2 Intermittent Legal Validity
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	Chapter 6: Troubles in Action Theory
		6.1 Participant Perspective
			6.1.1 Beyond the Hypostasis of Collective Action Subjects
			6.1.2 The Unsurmountable Fragmentation of Social Action Centres
			6.1.3 The Participant Logic of Social Action
		6.2 Observer Perspective
			6.2.1 Contract-Driven Social Action
			6.2.2 Consensus-Driven Social Action
			6.2.3 The Observer Logic of Social Action
		6.3 Conclusions in Action Theory
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	Chapter 7: Shifting Legitimacy: The Theoretical Issue of Social Validity
		7.1 Establishing Intermittent Social Orders from the Participant Perspective
			7.1.1 Competing Enforcement of Multiple Social Structures
			7.1.2 Intermittent Validity Beyond Lifestyle
			7.1.3 Creative Cultural Performance
		7.2 Establishing Intermittent Social Orders from the Observer Perspective
			7.2.1 The Ratio of Social Order
			7.2.2 Asymmetric Consensus
			7.2.3 Conflict, Power and the Rule of Law
		7.3 Scholium 1: The Micro-sociological Limits of Institutionalisation
		7.4 Scholium 2: The Anthropological Limits of Validity
		7.5 Conclusions in the Theory of Social Validity
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	Chapter 8: Consequences in Structure Theory
		8.1 Qualitative Societal Differentiation Revisited
		8.2 Modernity as Intermittent Destructuring Structuration
		8.3 Intermittent Foundation of Legal and Political Orders
		8.4 Social Integration Through Cultural Conflict
		8.5 Institutionalised Liquefaction Beyond Trust
		8.6 Consensus Conflicts and Societal Colonisation
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	Chapter 9: Conclusions in Sociological Diagnosis
		9.1 Failing Social Structuration as Regression from Legitimacy to Consensus
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Part III: Political Outcomes
	Chapter 10: Recovering Normative Social Structuration
		10.1 Seeking Social and Environmental Progress
		10.2 Transformative Social Action for the Twenty-First Century
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