Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process
Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process While it was evident to the classics of social theory that modern societies are highly dynamic forms of social organization, and that this dynamic…
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Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process
While it was evident to the classics of social theory that modern societies are highly dynamic forms of social organization, and that this dynamic nature must be reflected explicitly and confronted directly in modes of analysis across the social sciences, over the course of the twentieth century, the acknowledgement of this fact has been weakening. In recent decades, however, this preoccupation with structure has begun to give way to more process-oriented research orientations. As the social sciences became increasingly concerned with issues of professionalization and standards of validity inspired by more established disciplines, especially the natural sciences and economics, the focus on dynamic processes gave way to efforts to illuminate structural (i.e., static) features of modern social life.
In part, this renewed interest in dynamics rather than statics is reflective of the