Legitimization in World Society

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-27908-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Emerging traits of late global modernity such as transnationalism, multiculturalism, individualization and supranational contexts of action raise the question of what holds society together. Responses have typically made reference to legitimization, but the modern world presents challenges to such responses, for in such a differentiated, globalized setting, legitimization can no longer appeal to the previous national, ideological or religious foundations of early modernity. From a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book explores the manner in which legitimization can be constructed by people, groups or institutions under the contemporary pressures and possibilities of modern world society. Drawing on cosmopolitan theory, postcolonial sociology, systems theory, and historical sociology, it engages with questions of human rights, processes of individualization and the constitution of transnational spaces in its examination of the challenges to legitimization. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, political science and social and legal theory, concerned with questions of globalization and the problems of social cohesion and legitimacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mascareño, Aldo

Araujo, Kathya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction On Legitimacy Once Again: New Challenges in World Society, PART I. UNIVERSALISM AND LEGITIMACY, 1. Thoughts on the Legitimacy of Human Rights, 2. Law, Complexity, and Pluralism in the Development of Modernity, 3. Theorising Global Modernity: Descriptive and Normative Universalism, PART II. SYSTEMS AND LEGITIMACY, 4. Legitimization by Exuberance? Outputlegitimacy and Systemic Risk in Global Finance, 5. Legitimacy Through Constitutionalism, 6. The Many Faces of Justice and its Structural Foundations, PART III. DIFFERENCES AND LEGITIMACY, 7. Freezing Differences: Politics, Law, and the Invention of Cultural Diversity in Latin America, 8. The Belief in Legitimacy: Social Experiences and the Relationships of Individuals to Norms, 9. Contingency and the Legitimacy of Sociological Criticism in “World Society”, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aldo Mascareño is Research Professor in the School of Governance at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile. Kathya Araujo is Research Professor at the Departments of Sociology and Psychology at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago de Chile.