35. The Theory of Society: The Theory of Communicative Action (1981): A Classic of Social Theory

2017 ◽  
pp. 360-382
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action

L'idée de pathologie de la société chez Habermas

Dialogue ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-544
Author(s):  
Donald Ipperciel
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Structural Relationship ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action

AbstractThough Habermas explicitly rejected psychoanalysis as a model for a critical theory of society, it seems to have continued to shape his thought beyond the publication of Knowledge and Human Interests. The conceptual framework underlying his more recent social theory (Theory of Communicative Action,) would also be indebted to the psychoanalytical paradigm. This thesis is developed through the idea of the pathology of society, which represents the cornerstone of a specifically critical theory of society. In his demonstration, the author establishes a structural relationship between psychical and social organization, and between individual pathology and the diagnostic of modern societies.

Algorithmic culture and the colonization of life-worlds

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Simon Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Theoretical Expression ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Digital Algorithms ◽  
Digital Cultures

This article explores some of the concerns which are being raised about algorithms with recourse to Habermas’s theory of communicative action. The intention is not to undertake an empirical examination of ‘algorithms’ or their consequences but to connect critical theory to some contemporary concerns regarding digital cultures. Habermas’s ‘colonization of life-worlds’ thesis gives theoretical expression to two different trends which underlie many current criticisms of the insidious influence of digital algorithms: the privatization of communication, and the particularization of knowledge and experience. Habermas’s social theory therefore offers a useful framework for exploring some of the normative and political problems that are attributed to ‘algorithmic culture’ and ‘big data’.

scholarly journals Pragmática transcendental y filosofía social: Karl Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas y la nueva fundamentación de la Teoría Crítica

Daímon ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
César Ortega Esquembre
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Normative Foundation

El objetivo de este artículo es defender que la pragmática transcendental ofrece la fundamentación normativa de la teoría crítica como teoría de la acción comunicativa. Para ello se expondrá en primer lugar el problema de la normatividad en la Teoría Crítica de la sociedad. Tras describir la forma que adquiere esta teoría tras el giro lingüístico operado por Jürgen Habermas, se reconstruirán en tercer lugar los elementos fundamentales de la pragmática transcendental apeliana y habermasiana. En cuarto y último lugar se mostrará que este modelo constituye la fundamentación normativa de la nueva teoría crítica. The aim of this paper is to argue that transcendental pragmatics constitutes the normative foundation of critical theory, understood as theory of communicative action. To that end, the issue of normativity within Critical Theory discussions is first exposed. After describing the form this theory takes from the linguistic turn carried out by Jürgen Habermas, key elements of Karl Otto Apel´s and Jürgen Habermas´ transcendental pragmatics are thirdly reconstructed. Fourth paragraph shows that this model operates as the normative foundation of the new critical theory.

Complex Action Methodology for Enterprise Systems (CAMES)

2019 ◽  
pp. 302-314
Author(s):  
Olaf Cames ◽  
Meghann L. Drury-Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action

This completed action research utilizes the conceptual framework of quantum mechanics in action science field studies for bias-free behavioral data collection and quantification. The research question tied to experimental verification if action research field studies can practically utilize the theory of communicative action and the theory of quantum mechanics to contextualize the quantification with pathological and distorted behavioral pattern. The result is a quantum-like formalism that provides intermediary conceptuality for organizational intervening initiatives. This process of contextualization behavior in projects via quantum probability experimentally evidenced. The chapter concludes by reviewing the results of two experiments that the hypotheses that the theory of quantum mechanics and the theory of communicative action qualifies as a building block for a planned methodological approach to intervene and steer problematic social structures in the desired direction.

From Social Learning to Norm Validation

2018 ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Donovan Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Adult Educators ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Normative Foundations ◽  
Colonization Of Lifeworld ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter asserts that the emergent ontology of critical realism especially as mobilized by sociologist Dave Elder-Vass in his discussion of norm circles provides a powerful theoretical basis for supporting the emancipatory aspirations of critical adult education. According to Michael Welton, because of its capacity to support social learning, critical adult education has a pivotal role to play in human emancipation. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas's critical theory of communicative action, Michael Welton argues that critical adult education's deepest contemporary purpose is to foster social learning that can enable people to resist the destructive colonization of lifeworld contexts. This chapter argues that, while Habermas provides important insight into the normative foundations of critical adult education, his theory of communicative action cannot alone illuminate the ways human learning shapes and is shaped by lifeworld contexts. Elder-Vass's exploration of norm-circles helps identify weaknesses in the concept of “social learning” and identify how, in addition to supporting individual learning, emancipatory adult educators can also support the distinctive emergent power of norm-circles to form and enforce epistemic, discursive, ethical, and practical norms.

In Defense of Norm Circles

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donovan Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Human Learning ◽  
Theory Of Communicative Action ◽  
Normative Foundations ◽  
Colonization Of Lifeworld ◽  
Insight Into

According to Michael Welton, because of its capacity to support social learning, critical adult education has a pivotal role to play in human emancipation. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas's critical theory of communicative action, Welton argues that critical adult education's deepest contemporary purpose is to foster social learning that can enable people to resist the destructive colonization of lifeworld contexts. This paper argues that, while Habermas provides important insight into the normative foundations of critical adult education, his theory of communicative action does not possess an ontology that can sufficiently illuminate the ways human learning shapes and is shaped by lifeworld contexts. The emergent ontology of critical realism, the paper argues, especially as mobilized by sociologist, Dave Elder-Vass in his discussion of norm circles, provides an additional theoretical basis for enabling critical adult education to realize its fullest emancipatory potential.

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