Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-495) and index.

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- NORMATIVE ORDER IN ORGANIZATIONS -- ETZIONI’S FUNCTIONALISM AND SOCIETAL CONSTITUTIONALISM -- ORDER IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES: ETZIONI’S THREE MAJOR CONCEPTUAL DECISIONS -- DEFINING AN ACTIVE SOCIETY: PUSHING AMERICAN PRAGMATISM AND OPTIMISM TO THE EDGE -- OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO ACTIVENESS I: EXTENDING CONSENSUS AND CONTROL -- OVERCOMING OBSTACLES TO ACTIVENESS II: RECRUITING AND SOCIALIZING LEADERS -- POLICY FOR AN ACTIVE SOCIETY -- DECLINING OPTIMISM: AN IMMODEST AGENDA IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY -- ONGOING FAILURE: BREAKDOWNS IN PRIMARY SOCIALIZATION -- INCREASING CRITICISM: CORRUPTION IN ELECTORAL POLITICS AND NATIONAL GOVERNANCE -- THE ECONOMY’S “NORMATIVE CAPSULE:” FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS -- INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNITY -- TYPES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY I: SHAMING AND PRIVILEGING COMMUNITY -- TYPES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY II: RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY -- MORAL COMMITMENTS OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNITY -- ETZIONI REFERENCES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

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Among all sociologists in the world born after 1900, Amitai Etzioni ranks ninth in total citations. One reason for this is his thousands of publications span theory, organizations, international politics, democratic politics, socio-economics and communitarianism, and they have been adopted in undergraduate coursework within each of these areas. Written for social theorists as well as general readers (including undergraduates) David Sciulli's book is the first to explain not only how but also why Amitai Etzioni’s publications evolved from his dissertation to Active Society and Socio-Economics to Communitarianism.