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.
Social theory for old and new modernities : essays on society and culture, 1976-2005 by Franco Ferrarotti. ISBN 9780739115091. Published by Lexington Books in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.