Social Theory for Old and New Modernities: Essays on Society and Culture, 1976-2005

Introduction / by Maria I. Macioti -- The modern world and its destiny -- Counter-cultures and postmodernism -- Beyond the authoritarian personality -- Civil society and state structures in creative tension -- The city and civil society -- New approaches to social movements in Western Europe -- The culture of violence -- Social marginality and violence in neo-urban societies -- Modern rationality and the paradox of the sacred -- History and sociology -- The lessons of positivism -- American and European social science -- Biography and the social sciences -- Thorstein Veblen and his critics -- The social type of the businessman -- Constantinian Christianity and the future of the Catholic Church -- The media pope -- Reflections on America -- Time and its social transformations -- On photography.