ABSTRACT
Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social, cultural and economic transformation. For sociologists, the challenge is arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage.
In this book, the contributing authors consider solidarity as a cognitive problem of basic science. They examine how solidarity is produced and reproduced, how it is related to social processes, and how such processes can be formalized and create conditions for productively studying their properties. Mathematical models and representations are presented by the authors as a coherent set of tools for understanding many social phenomena.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Introduction
part II|165 pages
Rationality and Solidarity
part III|41 pages
Affect and Solidarity
part IV|104 pages
Social Networks and Solidarity
part V|61 pages
Assessment