Morphogenesis and Human Flourishing

1. Introduction: Has a Morphogenic Society Arrived?
Margaret S. Archer

2. Human Flourishing and Human Morphogenesis: A Critical Realist Interpretation and Critique
Philip Gorski

3. Some Reservations About Flourishing
Douglas V. Porpora

4. Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society: A Sociological Contribution to Political Philosophy
Ismael Al-Amoudi

5. The Morphogenic Society as Source and Challenge for Human Fulfillment
Andrea M. Maccarini

6. Does Intensive Morphogenesis Foster Human Capacities or Liabilities?
Margaret S. Archer

7. What Does a ‘Good Life’ Mean in a Morphogenic Society? The Viewpoint of Relational Sociology
Pierpaolo Donati

8. Flourishing or Fragmenting Amidst Variety: And the Digitalization of the Archive
Mark Carrigan

9. Corporations, Taxation and Responsibility: Practical and Onto-Analytical Issues for Morphogensis and Eudaimonia – A posse ad esse?
Jamie Morgan, William Sun

10. Networks and Commons: Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Organizational Morphogenesis in the Struggles to Shape Collective Responsibility in New Sharing Institutions
Emmanuel Lazega

11. Eudaimonic Bubbles, Social Change and the NHS
Tony Lawson

12. The Will to Be: Human Flourishing and the Good International Society
Colin Wight

13. Creating Common Good: The Global Sustainable Information Society as the Good Society
Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Theory, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Quality of Life Research