Abstract
This paper is a metatheoretical reflection on the tension within contemporary social theory between two fundamentally opposed ways of viewing the world: the twin logics of integration and disintegration. It is suggested that this typology is a more informative model for analysis of contemporary social theory than the modernism/postmodernism typology. The paper outlines the structure and precursors of this metatheoretical inquiry, identifies the presuppositions of these logics, provides exemplary statements of their application, reviews the rise to ascendancy of the logic of disintegration, demonstrates its current prevalence, provides a critique of its operation and concludes with a re- assertion of the value of the logic of integration.
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