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| Society: "Society" refers to a group of individuals living together in a community, sharing common norms, values, and institutions, and often governed by established rules or laws. It encompasses social interactions, relationships, and collective organization within a given geographical or cultural context. See also Community, Culture, State, Norms, Values, Institutions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Herbert Spencer on Society - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 218 Society/Progress/Spencer/Habermas: In the 19th century (...) the development theories culminating in H. Spencer interpret the progress of civilization darwinistically as the development of organic systems.(1) Habermas III 219 Thus Spencer was able to establish a theory of social evolution that cleared up the unclear idealism of philosophy of history and regarded the progress of civilization as a continuation of natural evolution and thus subsumed it under the laws of nature without all ambiguities. >Philosophy of history, >Evolution, >Laws of nature, >History, >Historiography. Trends such as scientific development; the capitalist growth, the establishment of constitutional states, the emergence of modern administrations, etc. could thus be treated directly as empirical phenomena and understood as consequences of the structural differentiation of social systems. They no longer needed to be interpreted as empirical indicators for an internal history of the mind, traced back to learning processes and accumulation of knowledge, no longer as signs of rationalisation in the sense of philosophy of history. 1. L. Sklair, The Sociology of Progress, London 1970, p. 56ff._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Spencer I Herbert Spencer The Man versus the State Indianapolis 2009 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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