Amitai Etzioni, leading exponent of responsive communitarianism, develops a systematic theory around the principle that communities are essential to good society, which is characterized by the state-community-market balance, whence derives an orientation innovative public policies, marked by synergy between the three spheres. The paper presents the outline of the author's intellectual journey, from early writings about the sociology of organizations to the works in that exposes the sociopolitical paradigm, whose main concepts and themes are detailed.
Amitai Etzioni; Community; Communitarianism; Responsive Communitarianism