Social Theory regarding social instability António Pedro Dores ISCTE, 17 May 2007 http://iscte.pt/~apad

Surveillance (Poliarchy) Military industrial sector Violence in Giddens Giddens, Anthony (1985) The Nation-State and Violence, Cambridge, Polity. Social Movements Giddens, Anthony (1985) The Nation-State and Violence, Cambridge, Polity. Ecological Movements Labour Movements Democratic Movements Peace Movements Surveillance (Poliarchy) Military industrial sector Private property (class) Industrialism (and environment)

Structuring Social Violence (Ab)uses of people Anthroponomic production (Berteaux) Elevation Purification of the spirit Submission spirit (exclusion) stigma, social division Prohibitionist spirit (control) Rationalization (classification hide secrets, cf. child abuse) Revivalism spirit (social justice ) Love and violence (body and mind) Bio ethical Institutions dispositions Individuals intentions Families faith Normative Socio-economic

Social Modernizing Dinamics Emancipation cycle Solidarity cycle racionalization criminalization closure racionalization institutionalization social movements criminalization revolution social movements closure Social justice Exclusion Control revolution institutionalization

Contradictory modernizing dinamics Social justice Exclusion Control social movements criminalization revolution closure racionalization institutionalization revolution racionalization social movements institutionalization criminalization closure

Sociology of instability a theory of the sociological knowledge The objective conditions of the existence of sociology The subjective conditions of sociologist’s education The tradition of scientific success of social theories Criticizing Max Weber Stabilization and destabilization – social values and social emotions Social movements Social apathy