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Article: From organisational theory to the new communitarianism of Amitai Etzioni. (Note on Society/Reflexion sur la Societe).(sociologist)
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- Canadian Journal of Sociology
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Introduction
Across a wide range of social commentators and social disciplines there has been little doubt that the thoughts and sentiments of Amitai Etzioni have influenced a communitarian attempt to establish a new moral order within which modern society should develop. Ruth Levitas (1998), to name but one, points to the characteristic centrality Etzioni gives to the family as well as to community. On another level, Finn Bowring (1997) draws upon Etzioni's calls for the revival of individual responsibility and social morality as a means to create social cohesion. Both recognise that it is precisely this emphasis upon family, community, social discipline, ...