Open AccessSocial and System Integration: Lockwood, Habermas, Giddens
Author(s) -
Nicos P. Mouzelis
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.847
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1469-8684
pISSN - 0038-0385
DOI - 10.1177/0038038597031001008
Subject(s) - sociology , epistemology , social science , philosophy
The different ways in which Lockwood, Habermas, and Giddens conceptualise the social-/system-integration distinction are examined. It is argued that (with some modification) Lockwood's conceptualisation is logically more congruent and heuristically more useful than that of the other two theorists.