레이몽 부동과 자유주의
Raymond Boudon and Liberalism
- 한양대학교 수행인문학연구소
- 수행인문학
- 수행인문학 제38집 제2호
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2008.1143 - 78 (36 pages)
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This article describes the characteristics of contemporary liberalism by means of the social theory of Raymond Boudon, one of France’s leading contemporary sociologists. Having made a unity of his sociological thought, it examines his liberalism through the following five chapters: a definition of modern liberalism; anti-liberalist thoughts in post-modern society; the mechanism of diffusion of anti-liberaist thoughts; a case of a successful paradigm of sociology; expansion of liberalism and human sciences’s task for the future. After this analysis, it suggests three theses as a conclusion. Firstly, Boudon’s sociology demonstrates the advantage of methodological individualism in comparison with methodological holism in explaining the various phenomena of modern society. This advantage is rooted in the fact that liberalism recognizes, better than any other thoughts, the complexity of social system and phenomena. His methodology in particular has a strong point in explaining the microbasis of macrosocial phenomena by linking social phenomena in macrodimension to individual autonomy and preferences in microdimension. Secondly, Boudon successfully criticizes the various thoughts of methodological holism-neo-marxisms, secular structuralism, and so on-by emphasizing the fact that these thoughts consider the individual as a simple support of social structure and rules. In this sense these thoughts have a weak point in explaining the complexity and uncertainty of post-modern society. And this means that they ignore the liberty and autonomy of an individual action in treating social phenomena. Thirdly, Boudon’s sociology has contributed to the expansion of liberalism in post-modern society in three domains, which are as follows: modern sociological theories with his sociological paradigm of “perverse effects”; the ideological debate in post-modern society with his methodological individualism; the diagnosis and the reform of civil society in the post-modern era with liberal perspective sociology.
Ⅰ. 문제의 제기
Ⅱ. 자유주의란 무엇인가?
Ⅲ. 현대사회의 반자유주의적 사고들
Ⅳ. 현대 사회에서 반자유주의적 사고가 확산되는 근거
Ⅴ. 사회학의 성공적 패러다임의 사례-일상생활의 모습과 의도하지 않았던 사악한 결과(peverse effect)
Ⅵ. 자유주의의 확장과 인문학의 미래
Ⅶ. 맺는 말
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