Legitimization in World Society

by Aldo Mascareño, Kathya Araujo

Overview

Emerging traits of late global modernity such as transnationalism, multiculturalism, individualization and supranational contexts of action raise the question of what holds society together. Responses have typically made reference to legitimization, but the modern world presents challenges to such responses, for in such a differentiated, globalized setting, legitimization can no longer appeal to the previous national, ideological or religious foundations of early modernity. From a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book explores the manner in which legitimization can be constructed by people, groups or institutions under the contemporary pressures and possibilities of modern world'society. Drawing on cosmopolitan theory, postcolonial sociology, systems theory, and historical sociology, it engages with questions of human rights, processes of individualization and the constitution of transnational spaces in its examination of the challenges to legitimization. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, political science and social and legal theory, concerned with questions of globalization and the problems of social cohesion and legitimacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138279087
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/17/2016
Series:	Global Connections (Hardcover)
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Aldo Mascareño is Research Professor in the School of Governance at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile. Kathya Araujo is Research Professor at the Departments of Sociology and Psychology at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Santiago de Chile.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction On Legitimacy Once Again: New Challenges in World Society, PART I. UNIVERSALISM AND LEGITIMACY, 1. Thoughts on the Legitimacy of Human Rights, 2. Law, Complexity, and Pluralism in the Development of Modernity, 3. Theorising Global Modernity: Descriptive and Normative Universalism, PART II. SYSTEMS AND LEGITIMACY, 4. Legitimization by Exuberance? Outputlegitimacy and Systemic Risk in Global Finance, 5. Legitimacy Through Constitutionalism, 6. The Many Faces of Justice and its Structural Foundations, PART III. DIFFERENCES AND LEGITIMACY, 7. Freezing Differences: Politics, Law, and the Invention of Cultural Diversity in Latin America, 8. The Belief in Legitimacy: Social Experiences and the Relationships of Individuals to Norms, 9. Contingency and the Legitimacy of Sociological Criticism in “World Society”, Index

Editorial Reviews

’With the turn of the new century, a change in the global consciousness of social problems, and the conditions for their legitimacy, has taken place. Anyone who still has doubts about it should read this book. Theoretically diverse and thematically consistent, Legitimization in World Society offers a refreshing sociological approach to the normative and structural problems of the modern global society.’ Otfried Höffe, Tübingen University, Germany ’An excellent collection of contributions to the vital issue of contemporary legitimization. A central aspect of the book is that processes of legitimization are situated within a definite awareness of globality. This is a major step in the coordination of the concepts of globality and modernity.’ Roland Robertson, University of Pittsburgh, USA and University of Aberdeen, UK

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