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La Fin des sociétés
Avec la décomposition du capitalisme industriel, les institutions sociales perdent leur sens. Que se passe-t-il pour que les piliers de nos sociétés démocratiques se dérobent quand la globalisation du monde appellerait leur renforcement ?Loin de céder à la peur du chaos qui accélère le déclin, cet ouvrage s’efforce d’unir le récit d’une fin et l’annonce d’un commencement : celui d’un autre type de vie collective et individuelle fondé sur la défense des droits humains universels contre toutes les logiques d’intérêt et de pouvoir.À charge pour nous d’apprendre à quelles conditions le sujet de droits que chacun peut invoquer est susceptible de se faire l’acteur d’expériences entièrement nouvelles, où le capitalisme financier, devenu sauvage aujourd’hui, pourrait être à nouveau contrôlé.
656 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2013
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Alain Touraine
108 books79 followersAlain Touraine is a French sociologist. He is research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux (see also Daniel Bertaux). He is best known for being the originator of the term "post-industrial society". His work is based on a "sociology of action," and believes that society shapes its future through structural mechanisms and its own social struggles. Touraine defined historicity as the capability of a society to take action upon itself, see The Self-Production of Society (1977).
His key interest for most of his career has been with social movements. He has studied and written extensively on workers' movements across the world, particularly in Latin America and more recently in Poland where he observed and aided the birth of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), see Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement (1983). While in Poland, he developed the research method of "Sociological Intervention," which had been outlined in "The Voice and the Eye" (La Voix et le Regard) [1981].
Touraine has gained immense popularity in Latin America as well as in continental Europe. Yet he has failed to gain anywhere near the same recognition in the English-speaking world. Out of twenty or so books, only about half of them have been translated into English.
He participated in 1969 at MoMA's Universitas project organized by Argentine architect Emilio Ambasz. In 2010, he was jointly awarded, with Zygmunt Bauman, the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities.
His key interest for most of his career has been with social movements. He has studied and written extensively on workers' movements across the world, particularly in Latin America and more recently in Poland where he observed and aided the birth of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), see Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement (1983). While in Poland, he developed the research method of "Sociological Intervention," which had been outlined in "The Voice and the Eye" (La Voix et le Regard) [1981].
Touraine has gained immense popularity in Latin America as well as in continental Europe. Yet he has failed to gain anywhere near the same recognition in the English-speaking world. Out of twenty or so books, only about half of them have been translated into English.
He participated in 1969 at MoMA's Universitas project organized by Argentine architect Emilio Ambasz. In 2010, he was jointly awarded, with Zygmunt Bauman, the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities.
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September 2, 2018
Toplum sonrası / tarih sonrası fikri ilginç. Bütün "eski" aktörler yerine evrensel hakların savunusuna dayalı "özne" tartışması da ufuk açıcı. Ancak bu düşünceleri dile getirmek için 480 sayfa gereksiz. Dil çok ağır ve çetrefil; Türkçe çevirisi de okuyucuya yardım etmiyor. Touraine konudan konuya atlıyor, "özne" fikrini geliştirmeye çalışıyor. Buna karşılık okuyucunun kafasını karıştırmaktan başka bir şey yapamıyor. Okurken çok yoruldum.
January 29, 2023
An interesting book that examines the nature of the unipolar world that remained after the collapse of real socialism, deals with the techno-social transformation that societies have undergone and is written on the creation of democratic social structures based on human rights, rather than saying "capitalism is now the only system".
Sociologists who try to make sense of our day usually predict that we are in the post-capitalist period and that the basic concerns and problems have changed now. This open discussion, considerable criticism in the field of perspective. Because many of the basic concerns would say that even today, societies in many parts of the world are up to date. Trying to make sense of our day by ignoring many basic concern dynamics such as housing, hunger, poverty, health, education and the future is a point where criticism should be brought. Likewise, describing the world by claiming that the age of Enlightenment is over is again a reflection of the wrong perspective. I have not questioned whether the author has made an assessment based on the g8 countries here.
Apart from this basic criticism, the book also has quite seminal points. Especially, the prediction of a new society based on human rights means a very valuable step for the history of humanity. The European Declaration of Human Rights is the most valuable declaration that should be implemented and applied in this sense.
Although Touraine has processed that the social is coming to an end, the phenomena he is talking about are objective and social rather than subjective. Therefore, today's sociologists say, "ideologies are over." instead of trying to predict societies and the future based on his thesis, I think it would be much more correct to explain societies based on ideos-logos, the knowledge of human thought. The author also told us about our day based on human rights at this point.
Although the book is quite helpful on a critical basis, it is valuable to read. Because ideos-logos will develop as long as there are qualified books that we can criticize. Have a pleasant reading.
Sociologists who try to make sense of our day usually predict that we are in the post-capitalist period and that the basic concerns and problems have changed now. This open discussion, considerable criticism in the field of perspective. Because many of the basic concerns would say that even today, societies in many parts of the world are up to date. Trying to make sense of our day by ignoring many basic concern dynamics such as housing, hunger, poverty, health, education and the future is a point where criticism should be brought. Likewise, describing the world by claiming that the age of Enlightenment is over is again a reflection of the wrong perspective. I have not questioned whether the author has made an assessment based on the g8 countries here.
Apart from this basic criticism, the book also has quite seminal points. Especially, the prediction of a new society based on human rights means a very valuable step for the history of humanity. The European Declaration of Human Rights is the most valuable declaration that should be implemented and applied in this sense.
Although Touraine has processed that the social is coming to an end, the phenomena he is talking about are objective and social rather than subjective. Therefore, today's sociologists say, "ideologies are over." instead of trying to predict societies and the future based on his thesis, I think it would be much more correct to explain societies based on ideos-logos, the knowledge of human thought. The author also told us about our day based on human rights at this point.
Although the book is quite helpful on a critical basis, it is valuable to read. Because ideos-logos will develop as long as there are qualified books that we can criticize. Have a pleasant reading.
September 28, 2020
Günümüz toplumunun sosyolojisi i, felsefesini, psikolojisini iyi çözümleyen ve anlaşılır kılan bir kitap. Benim dünyaya ve geleceğe bakış açımı değiştiren Yazarın diğer kitaplarının da okunmasını tavsiye ederim.
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