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Cambridge University Press Max Webers Politics of Civil Society
Book SynopsisKim's interpretation effectively highlights the relevance of Weber's political thought for our time, in which civil society has once again become the dominant issue for a robust liberal democratic regime.Trade Review"Kim's book is an erudite, thoroughly researched, and insightful rereading of Weber. It is also highly relevant to contemporary democratic theory." Perspectives on Political Theory"Sung Ho Kim has produced an outstanding revision of Max Weber's political thought within the context of Weber's work on the sociology of religion." Leonard Seabrooke, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Part I. Of 'Sect Man': The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber: 1. Agency, citizenship and civil society; 2. Reading Weber: between politics and science; 3. In search of the Protestant ethic thesis; 4. Outline of the argument; Part II. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Individualism: 5. Introduction: 'the last of our heroisms'; 6. 'A rationalization toward an irrational conduct of life'; 7. Calling: sanctification and regimentation of everyday life; 8. Predestination: objectification of the world and disempowerment of the self; 9. Empowering the individual agency: self-mastery and discipline; 10. Conclusion: value, rationality and freedom; Part III. The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Civil Society: 11. Introduction: sociability of the Puritan Berufsmensch; 12. Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft and Amerikanismus; 13. Modes of sociability: America versus Europe; 14. Sect contra church: particularism and voluntarism; 15. Secularization of charisma: from sect to status group and bureaucracy; 16. Conclusion: The public and the private; Part IV. Politics, Science, Ethics: 17. Introduction: Götterdämmerung; 18. Disenchantment and reenchantment; 19. Conviction, responsibility and decision; 20. Practice of the self I: realpolitik; 21. Practice of the self II: ideal type; 22. Conclusion: modernity, conscience and duty; Part V. Liberalism, Nationalism and Civil Society: 23. Introduction: liberalism and nationalism; 24. National identities, nation-states and the political; 25. Nationalism, citizenship and personality; 26. Politics of the classes: refeudalization and embourgeoisement; 27. Politics of checks and balances: corporatism and parliamentarianism; 28. Conclusion: 'the school of men'; Part VI. Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society: 29. Statecraft and soulcraft in Max Weber; 30. Purpose, contestation and the political; 31. Bowling alone; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Norms in a Wired World
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Cambridge University Press Karl Marxs Theory of Ideas Studies in Marxism and Social Theory
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Cambridge University Press Emile Durkheim Selected Writings
This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim's writings drawing upon the whole body of his work. Dr Giddens takes his selections from a wide variety of sources and includes a number of items from untranslated writings in the Revue Philosophique, Annee Sociologique and from L'evolution pedagogue en France. Selections from previously translated writings have been checked against the originals and amended or re-translated where necessary. Dr Giddens arranges his selections thematically rather than chronologically. However, extracts from all phases of Durkheim's intellectual career are represented, giving the date of their first publication, which makes the evolution of his thought easily traceable. In his introduction Dr Giddens discusses phases in the interpretation of Durkheim's thought, as well as the main themes in his work, with an analysis of the effects of his thinking on modern sociology. The book is for students at any level taking courses in sociology, social anthropology and soci
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism Modern Social Theory An Analysis of the Writings of Marx Durkheim and Max Weber
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Cambridge University Press Suicide Foucault History and Truth
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Cambridge University Press Structures of Power and Constraint
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of the State Contemporary Political Theory
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Cambridge University Press Marxism Recycled
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Cambridge University Press The Theory and Scholarship of Talcott Parsons to 1951
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Cambridge University Press Identity Ideology and Conflict The Structuration of Politics in Northern Ireland
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Cambridge University Press Sociology In Its Place
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Cambridge University Press Mundane Reason
Book SynopsisSociology and common sense both assume that there is an objective world that exists independently of the knower and that is accessible to competent perceivers. This assumption forms the basis of 'mundane reason'. As self-evident as this may appear, in this book the author shows that it is in fact historically emergent, culturally contingent and situationally constructed.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. The problem of mundaneity; 2. Mundane idealizations; 3. The self-preservation of mundane reason; 4. Mundane puzzles and the politics of experience; 5. Mundane autobiography; 6. Mundane reflection; 7. The social construction of mundane reason; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms
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Cambridge University Press Opening Pandoras Box
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Cambridge University Press Social Theory of Modern Societies
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Cambridge University Press International Practices 119 Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Book SynopsisIt is in and through practices - deeds that embody shared intersubjective knowledge - that social life is organized, that subjectivities are constituted and that history unfolds. One can think of dozens of different practices (from balancing, to banking or networking) which constitute the social fabric of world politics. This book brings together leading scholars in fields from international law and humanitarianism to nuclear deterrence and the UN to provide effective new tools to understand a range of pressing issues of the era of globalization. As an entry point to the study of world politics, the concept of practice accommodates a variety of perspectives in a coherent yet flexible fashion and opens the door to much needed interdisciplinary research in international relations. International Practices crystallizes the authors' past research on international practices into a common effort to turn the study of practice into a novel research program in international relations.Trade Review'This conceptually innovative and empirically comprehensive collection focuses our attention on the 'practice' of international politics. This is an analytical category that promises both productive engagements across the various subfields of international relations theory, and new ways of thinking about empirical research. It should find a broad and receptive audience.' Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr Professor of International Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Practices in International Relations and Social Theory: 1. International practices: introduction and framework Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot; 2. Making sense of 'international practices' Friedrich Kratochwil; Part II. Practices and Their Background: 3. A practice theory of emotion in international relations Janice Bially Mattern; 4. Background knowledge in the foreground: conversations about competent practice in 'sacred space' Janice Stein; 5. Interactional international law and the practice of legality Jutta Brunnée and Stephen Toope; Part III. The Evolution of Practices: 6. The practice of deterrence Patrick Morgan; 7. Britain's response to the Spanish Civil War: investigating the implications of foregrounding practice for English school thinking Richard Little; 8. Domestic practices and balancing: integrating practice into neoclassical realism Norrin Ripsman; Part IV. Practices in Practice: 9. Banking on power: how some practices in an international organization anchor others Ole Jacob Sending and Iver Neumann; 10. The practice of political manipulation Erik Voeten; 11. Performing practices: a poststructuralist analysis of the Muhammad cartoon crisis Lene Hansen; 12. Privatisation in practice: power and capital in the field of global security Rita Abrahamsen and Michael Williams; Part V. Conclusion: 13. Practices of theory Raymond Duvall and Arjun Chowdhury.
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Cambridge University Press Middle Start
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Cambridge University Press Existential Sociology
Book SynopsisThis collection of ten original essays engages the 'crisis in sociology' at the most fundamental level of thought and experience.Table of ContentsIntroduction; About the contributors; Part I. Aspects of Existential Sociology: 1. Existential sociology Jack D. Douglas; Part II. The Fundamental Issues and Existential Sociology: 2. The emergence of existential thought: philosophical perspectives on positivist and humanist forms of social theory Richard H. Brown; 3. The existential thought of Jean Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty Andrea Fontana and Richard Van de Water; Part III. The Phenomenological Sociologies and Existential Sociology: 4. The sociology of Alfred Schutz David L. Altheide; 5. Ethnomethodology and existential sociology John M. Johnson; 6. Practical reasoning in action John P. Anderson; Part IV. Beyond the Rational Frontwork: 7. Behind the rational appearances: fusion of thinking and feeling in sociological research John M. Johnson; 8. Occasioned transcendence John M. Johnson; Part V. The Existential Self: 9. The chronic pain experience Joseph A. Kotarba; 10. The existential self in the gay world Carol A. B. Warren and Barbara Ponse; Appendix: the origins of existential sociology Jack D. Douglas; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Max Weber
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Cambridge University Press Protest and Participation
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Cambridge University Press Structure Consciousness and History
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Cambridge University Press Tasks and Social Relationships in Classrooms
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Events
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Cambridge University Press The Tragedy of Enlightenment
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Cambridge University Press Vision and Method in Historical Sociology
Book SynopsisThese essays focus on the careers and contributions of nine scholars who worked on the intersections of social theory and history viewed on a grand scale. They include: Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein and Barrington Moore Jr.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Sociology's historical imagination Theda Skocpol; 2. The social and historical landscape of Marc Bloch Daniel Chirot; 3. Beyond the economistic fallacy: the holistic social science of Karl Polanyi Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers; 4. Configurations in history: the historical sociology of S. N. Eisenstadt Gary G. Hamilton; 5. Theoretical generalization and historical particularity in the comparative sociology of Reinhard Bendix Dietrich Rueschmeyer; 6. Destined pathways: the historical sociology of Perry Anderson Mary Fulbrook and Theda Skocpol; 7. E. P. Thompson: understanding the process of history Ellen Kay Trimberger; 8. Charles Tilly's collective action Lynn Hunt; 9. The world system of Immanuel Wallerstein: sociology and politics as history Charles Ragin and Daniel Chirot; 10. Discovering facts and values: the historical sociology of Barrington Moore Dennis Smith; 11. Emerging agendas and recurrent strategies in historical sociology Theda Skocpol; An annotated bibliography on methods of comparative and historical sociology; Notes on the contributors.
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Cambridge University Press Sociological Explanation as Translation
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Cambridge University Press Powers of Theory
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Cambridge University Press Society and Identity
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Cambridge University Press Enlightenment and Despair
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Cambridge University Press The Recent Work of Jrgen Habermas Reason Justice and Modernity
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Cambridge University Press A Treatise on Social Theory The Methodology of Social Theory Volume 2 A Treatise on Social Theory 3 Volume Paperback Set
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Cambridge University Press Transition to Modernity
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Cambridge University Press The Methodology of Herbert Blumer
The Methodology of Herbert Blumer by Jr
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Cambridge University Press The Recent Work of Jurgen Habermas
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Cambridge University Press Durkheimian Sociology
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Cambridge University Press The Field of Social Investment American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
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Cambridge University Press Theory of Societal Constitutionalism
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Cambridge University Press The Claims of Common Sense
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Cambridge University Press Marxism Recycled
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Cambridge University Press The Shape of Culture
Book SynopsisUsing information on thousands of cultural organisations, cinemas and live rock concerts as well as opera and chamber music companies, this text systematically analyses the prevailing cultural patterns of contemporary American society.Trade Review'Blau's study is a methodologically sophisticated, sociological examination of artistic production and consumption patterns in the larger metropolitan areas of the US … Blau demonstrates a thorough command of the literature. Some of her findings are surprising, and are contrary to much of the conventional wisdom of past and contemporary observers, whose conclusions lacked the kind of painstakingly gathered and skillfully analyzed empirical support provided by Blau.' ChoiceTable of Contents1. Culture as structure and meaning; 2. The American cultural landscape; 3. Reproduction and decline; 4. Co-ocurrence, tipping in, and bridging; 5. Organizational assembly and disassembly; 6. Increasing returns on diminishing artists; 7. A little more on the hobby horse; 8. Masses and classes; 9. The transformation of American culture.
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Cambridge University Press The Meaning of General Theoretical Sociology
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Cambridge University Press Karl Marxs Theory of Ideas
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Cambridge University Press Ferguson
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Cambridge University Press Reason in Action
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Cambridge University Press Ferguson
Book SynopsisAdam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society is a classic of the Scottish, and European, Enlightenment. Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of modern society with a critique of its abandonment of communal virtues, and boldly attempts to reclaim the tradition of active citizenship in the modern state.Table of Contents1. Of the general characteristics of human nature; 2. Of the history of rude nations; 3. Of the history of policy and arts; 4. Of the consequences that result from advancement of civil and commercial arts; 5. Of the decline of nations; 6. Of corruption and political slavery.
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Cambridge University Press Reason in Action
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