The structural transformation of embeddedness
- The concept of embeddedness plays a central role in the segment of economic sociology and social theory which is inspired by the works of Karl Polanyi. But to the extent that embeddedness is understood in a substantialist manner, implying the existence of a unitary lifeworld, the desire for embeddedness is an impossible aspiration under modern conditions. Throughout the modern era it is however possible to observe the emergence of complex societal stabilization mechanisms, which serve as substitutes to traditional forms of embeddedness. The emergence of function specific cultures, in the form of, for example, legal, political and scientific cultures, establishing a ‘second nature’ in the Hegelian sense, is one example of this. Other examples are (neo-)corporatist institutions which fulfilled a central stabilising role in classical modernity and the kind of network based governance arrangements which fulfil a similar position in today’s radicalised modernity.
Author: | Poul F. Kjaer |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-85630 |
Series (Serial Number): | Normative orders working paper : Normative Orders, Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt, Main (2010, 05) |
Publisher: | Goethe-Univ., Cluster of excellence The Formation of Normative Orders |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2010/11/23 |
Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2010/11/23 |
Tag: | Einbettung; Moderne; Transformation Embeddedness; Modernity; Sociology; Transformation |
GND Keyword: | Wirtschaftssoziologie; Soziales System; Polanyi, Karl |
Page Number: | 25 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 25 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 230173837 |
Institutes: | Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |