REALIST-AXIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES AND IMAGES OF SOCIAL LIFE

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• Part I. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
• I. FROM SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY TO PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIOLOGY
• 1. The origins of social philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
• 2. Shaping the personalistic dimension of social philosophy
• 3. Towards philosophical sociology
• II. ELEMENTS OF MACROSOCIOLOGY
• 1. Rudimentary sociological discourses and their relation to social macrostructures
• 2. Continuations and new perspectives in macrosociology
• 3. Macrostructures and the complementarity principle
• 4. The axiological perspective in macrosociology
• III. STRUCTURAL CATEGORIES OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• 1. A general description of social movements
• 2. The organizational structure as a unique feature of new social movements
• 3. Modus operandi of new social movements and the issue of their efficiency
• 4. The object of analysis and exploration sociology of new social movements
• IV. ASPECTS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE SOCIAL BOND
• 1. Understanding the social bond
• 2. Contexts of the social bond
• 3. The concept of the regional and the neighbourly bond
• 4. The social bond and the value of family life
• V. AN OUTLINE OF THE REALIST-CRITICISTIC THEORY OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE
• 1. Criticistic analysis of literature
• 2. Literature and critical realism
• 3. The realist-criticistic analysis of literature
• Part II. PEOPLE – THE HERITAGE OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
• I. FRANCISZEK MIREK’S APPROACH TO SOCIOLOGY
• 1. Biographical note
• 2. Sociological analyses of the individual experiences of the subject
• 3. The nature of social activities: a sociological perspective on religious groups
• 4. Humanistic sociology versus “Christian sociology”
• II. A REALISTIC VIEW OF SOCIETY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF JAN TUROWSKI
• 1. Realism in the recognition of man and society
• 2. Realism in understanding the subject of sociology
• 3. Realism in sociological empirical research
• III. SOCIOLOGICAL AND AXIOLOGICAL MOTIVES IN JOHN PAUL II’S LABOREM EXERCENS
• 1. Work and capital in the context of the “personalistic argument”
• 2. The meaning of freedom and equality versus the organization of socio-political and economic life
• 3. Solidarity in social life and workplace
• IV. STANISŁAW KOWALCZYK’S PERSONALISTIC CONCEPTION OF SOCIETY
• 1. The assumptions of personalism
• 2. The notion of a human being
• 3. From an individual to society
• 4. The values and rules of social life
• 5. The political and systemic order in society
• V. ON THE SOCIAL QUESTION OF TODAY: JANUSZ MARIAŃSKI’S PERSPECTIVE ON CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING (Edward Balawajder)
• 1. Sociology and Catholic social teaching
• 2. The methodological status of Catholic social teaching
• 3. The fundamental values
• 4. Democracy without values?
• 5. “The structures of sin”
• 6. “New things” in economics
• 7. The mass media and new media technologies
• 8. Out of concern for environmental protection and “human ecology”
• VI. THE REALIST-PERSONALISTIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE CULTURE OF KNOWLEDGE: LEON DYCZEWSKI’S REFLECTIONS ON A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
• 1. Knowledge in late modernity
• 2. The culture of knowledge: individualist versus personalistic approach
• 3. Catholic university as the last stand of knowledge
• VII. PERSONALISM AS THE FOUNDATION OF REALISM IN FRANCISZEK MAZUREK’S SOCIOLOGY
• 1. Personalism or personalisms
• 2. Realism in the understanding of society
• 3. Personalism and sociological analysis
• VIII. JERZY REBETA’S ANALYSIS OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY VERSUS THE CONTEMPORARY LOGIC OF SOCIOLOGICAL PERSUASION
• 1. Social sciences versus practical philosophy
• 2. Rhetoric as the logic of public persuasion
• 3. Sociology as moral persuasion
• CONCLUSION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX OF NAMES
• Series index