TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mackert, Jürgen
T1  - Reorganiszation and Stabilization
T2  - Journal of classical sociology
N2  - The consequences of economic globalization have created a new interest in  ́EmileDurkheim’s  conception  of  an  institutional  and  moral  reorganization  of  modernsociety  that  he  developed  in  Professional  Ethics  and  Civic  Morals.  Contrary  toexisting attempts to explain these political processes towards democratization, thisarticle argues for a causal analysis of social change and concentrates on the socialmechanisms that trigger the reorganization process of modern society. Two thesesare entertained. The first thesis argues that the programme of an institutional andmoral  reorganization  of  modern  society  can  be  reanalysed  as  a  causal  process  ofdemocratization. This process takes two steps. While social mechanisms of reorgan-izationbring about the institutional and moral reorganization of modern society,social  mechanisms  of  stabilizationguarantee  the  functioning  of  the  emergingdemocratic system. Further, the second thesis argues that this kind of explanationcan  be  applied  to  Durkheim’s  vision  of  a  European  confederation.  The  analysisreveals that his idea of a ‘post-national’ constellation refers to crucial problems ofthe  recent  debate  regarding  a  democratic  deficit  in  the  European  Union,  and  itshows  that  Durkheim’s  contribution  to  both  political  sociology  and  historical-comparative research has been misconceived and prematurely repudiated.
Y1  - 2004
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/59383
UR  - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1468795X04046970
SN  - 1468-795X
SN  - 1741-2897
VL  - 4
IS  - 3
SP  - 311
EP  - 336
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -