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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Learning Theories of Crime The Library of
Book SynopsisThe readings selected for this volume reveal the historical development of social learning theory, from its origins in differential association theory, through the role played by psychological behaviorism, to contemporary social learning theory and its further incorporation of social structure as the context within which criminal behavior is learned. The volume dispels common misunderstandings of the theory and emphasizes its foundations in both symbolic interactionism and behaviorism. At its core, the theory remains true to its origins in sociology, reflecting Sutherland's admonition that a complete learning theory must include macro- and micro-sociological processes. Besides conceptual treatments of the theory's development, the volume also presents data-based entries that convey the depth and breadth of social learning theory as an explanation of deviance. Social learning theory is demonstrated to be an explanation that spans the gamut of behaviors from gang activities to drug use to coercive sex to terrorism.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Differential Association Theory: A statement of the theory, Edwin Sutherland; Epidemiology and individual conduct: a case from criminology, Donald R. Cressey; Criminality theories and behavioral images, Daniel Glaser. Part II Behavioral and Cognitive Learning: Behaviorism at fifty, B.F. Skinner; Criminal behavior and learning theory, C. R. Jeffery; Behavior theory and the models of man, Albert Bandura. Part III Social Learning Theory: Theoretical Statements and Responses to Critiques: A differential association-reinforcement theory of criminal behavior, Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers; A social learning perspective on deviant behavior, Ronald L. Akers; The dynamics of delinquent peers and delinquent behavior, Ross L. Matsueda and Kathleen Anderson; Is differential association/social learning cultural deviance theory?, Ronald L. Akers. Part IV Empirical Tests of Social Learning Theory: Social learning and deviant behavior: a specific test of general theory, Ronald L. Akers, Marvin D. Krohn, Lonn Lanza-Kaduce and Marcia Radosevich; Parental and peer influences on adolescent drug use in Korea, Sunghyun Hwang and Ronald L. Akers; Do adolescents engage in delinquency to attract the social attention of peers? An extension and longitudinal test of the social reinforcement hypothesis, Cesar J.Rebellon; The empirical status of social learning theory: a meta-analysis, Travis C. Pratt et al. Part V The Group Context of Social Learning Theory: Social contexts and social learning in sexual coercion and aggression: assessing the contribution of fraternity membership, Scot B. Boeringer, Constance L. Shehan and Ronald L. Akers; Social learning theory, self-reported delinquency, and youth gangs: a new twist on a general theory of crime and delinquency, L. Thomas Winfree Jr, Teresa Vigil Bäckström and G. Larry Mays; Extending the boundaries of social structure/social learning theory: the case of suicide bombers in Gaza, L. Thomas Winfree and L. Keith Akins. Part VI Social Learning and Social Structure: Social structure and social learning in crime and deviance, Ronald L. Akers; Social learning and social structure: reply to Sampson, Morash, and Krohn, Ronald L. Akers; Gang membership, drug selling, and violence in neighborhood context, Paul E. Bellair and Thomas L. McNulty; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emile Durkheim The International Library of
Book SynopsisA new appreciation of Durkheim, now into its fourth decade, has extended our grasp of his intellectual ambitions beyond standard academic boundaries. Contributions to this revival of interest in Durkheim, many secreted away in obscure periodicals, are well worth being recognized for their unqualified excellence in helping us to uncover the original Durkheimian intellectual project in all its interdisciplinary complexity. Besides classic Durkheimian subjects such as religion, social solidarity and suicide, these studies bring to light Durkheim''s intellectual inquiry into political theory, comparative ethnology, social reconstruction, questions of civil society, and his articulation of an updated individualism in conversation with Marx, Hegel, Spencer and others. Authors who have helped us attain this more rounded conception of the Durkheimian project include such well-known figures as Robert N. Bellah, Robert Alun Jones, Anthony Giddens, W. S. F. Pickering and Edward Tiryakian. MoreTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I History and Philosophy: Durkheim and history, Robert N. Bellah; The definition of sociology and the sociology of definition: Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method and high school philosophy in France, John I. Brooks III; Durkheim's pragmatism lectures: a contextual interpretation, Neil Gross; Durkheim's friendship with the philosopher Octave Hamelin: together with translations of 2 items by Durkheim, D. Némedi and W.S.F. Pickering; Charles Renouvier and Emile Durkheim: Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique, S.G. Stedman Jones; Durkheim, Hamelin and the French Hegel, Ivan Strenski. Part II Division of Labour and Suicide: Revisiting sociology's first classic: The Division of Labor in Society and its actuality, Edward A. Tiryakian; Durkheim et les femmes, ou le Suicide inachevé, Philippe Besnard; The true nature of Anomie, Philippe Besnard; Durkheim on occupational corporations: an exegesis and interpretation, M.J. Hawkins. Part III Sociology, Culture and Education: Durkheim, realism and Rousseau, Robert Alun Jones; Emile Durkheim's inaugural lecture at Bordeaux, Neville Layne; French ethnology and the Durkheimian breakthrough, Victor Karady; The uses of studying primitives: a note on the Durkheimians, 1890-1940, W. Paul Vogt; The cultural and educational influence of Durkheim, 1900-1945, W.D. Halls; Rousseau and Durkheim: the relation between the public and the private, Mark S. Cladis. Part IV Religion, the Sacred and Elementary Forms: Bergson and Durkheim as sons and assimilators: the early years, Louis M. Greenberg; On understanding a sociological classic, Robert Alun Jones; Robertson Smith, Durkheim and sacrifice: an historical context for The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Robert Alun Jones; Durkheim's individual in society: a sacred marriage?, Mark S. Cladis. Part V Politics: Durkheim's political sociology, Anthony Giddens; La vocation originelle d'Émile Durkheim, Bernard Lacroix. Part VI From History of Science
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Karl Marx The International Library of Essays in
Book SynopsisMarx's approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of scholars world-wide. Unfortunately, there are relatively few clear accounts of what this approach is and how to put it to use. And, despite the many attempts to use Marx's method to study a variety of subjects, there are relatively few that can serve as useful models. In the present volume, the internationally renowned Marxist scholar, Bertell Ollman, and the social theorist Kevin B. Anderson, have brought together a sampling of the best writings of the past hundred years that illustrate and critique Marx's method as well as explain what it is and how to put it to work. Anyone wishing to understand better Marx's dialectical method (along, of course, with the theories created with its help), or to revise this method or to criticize it, or to use it in their own work will find this collection invaluable.Trade Review’This collection of articles well illustrates the relevance and depth of Marxian analysis. It is an excellent reference.... Each article stands on its own and provides the reader with superb scholarship and impressive insights.’ Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Theory and Method: Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat, Georg Lukács; The age of revolutions: industrial, social-political, intellectual, Raya Dunayevskaya; Putting dialectics to work: the process of abstraction in Marx's method, Bertell Ollman; The unity of science and revolution: Marxism as critique, Peter G. Stillman; Karl Marx's Enquête Ouvriere, Hilde Weiss (and Karl Marx). Part II Political Economy: From financial crisis to world slump: accumulation, financialization and the global slowdown, David McNally; Self-sourcing: how corporations get us to work without pay!, Martha E. Gimenez; The reproduction of daily life, Fredy Perlman; The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system: concepts for comparative analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein; The 'new' imperialism: accumulation by dispossession, David Harvey. Part III State and Politics: The constitution as an elitist document, Michael Parenti; The monopolistic economy: property and contract, Franz Neumann; The worldwide class struggle, Vincent Navarro; The economic and social functions of the legal institutions, Karl Renner; The problem of the capitalist state, Nicos Poulantzas; Reply to Nicos Poulantzas, Ralph Miliband; The Marxist case for revolution today, Ernest Mandel. Part IV The Individual and Society: Psychoanalysis and sociology, Erich Fromm; The uses and abuses of 'civil society', Ellen Meiksins Wood; Labor market and penal sanction: thoughts on the sociology of penal justice, Georg Rusche; The injuries of class, Michael D. Yates; Sports and cultural politics: the attraction of modern spectator sports, Sut Jhally and Bill Livant. Part V Culture and Religion: The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno; Museum, Inc.: inside the global art world (over-the-cliff notes), Paul Werner; The cultural logic of late capitalism, Fredric Jameson; Aroma and shadow: Marx vs Nietzsche on religion, Ishay Landa. Part VI History: Exploitation, E.P. Thompson; The feudal mode of production, Perry Anderson; The decline and fall of Rome, G.E.M. de Ste Croix. Part VII Colonialism, Race and Gender: Negroes in the Civil War: their role in the second American revolution, C.L.R. James (J.R. Johnson); Race relations - its meaning, beginning and progress, Oliver C. Cox; The feminist standpoint: developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism, Nancy C.M. Hartsock; Marx's late writings on non-Western and precapitalist societies and gender, Kevin B. Anderson. Part VIII Ecology: Marx's ecology in historical perspective, John Bellamy Foster; Marx's vision of sustainable human development, Paul Burkett; Name index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd W.E.B. Du Bois
Book SynopsisHoused in one handy volume for the first time are several of the seminal essays on W.E.B. Du Bois's contributions to sociology and critical social theory: from Du Bois as inventor of sociology of race, to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology, to Du Bois as innovator of sociology of gender and culture; and, finally, from Du Bois as groundbreaking sociologist of education and critical criminologist, to Du Bois as dialectical critic of the disciplinary decadence of sociology and the American academy. What this volume offers that is wholly innovative and distinctive is that it brings together the watershed work of classical and contemporary, male and female, black and white, national and international sociologists and social theorists with the express intent of creating critical inventories and thoroughly interrogating what has been included, and what has been excluded, when we come to W.E.B. Du Bois's contributions tTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: On Du Bois’s epistemic innovations and sociology’s intellectual amnesia; Part I Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology: Exploring Issues of Intellectual Historical Amnesia and Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois: a case study in the sociology of sociological negation, Dan S. Green and Edwin D. Driver; Note on a forgotten Black sociologist: W.E.B. Du Bois and the sociological profession, Elliot Rudwick; W.E.B. Du Bois between worlds: Berlin, empirical social research, and the race question, Barrington S. Edwards; W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta University studies on the negro, Elliot M. Rudwick; W.E.B. Du Bois's and the Atlanta University studies on the negro, revisited, Earl Wright II. Part II Du Bois and the Early Development of Urban and Rural Sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and the Sociology of the Souls of Black Farming Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta sociological laboratory, Earl Wright II; The early social science of W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert W. Williams; W.E.B. Du Bois' urban sociology: reflections on African American quality of life in Philadelphia, Robert A. Wortham; W.E.B. Du Bois's sociology: The Philadelphia Negro and social science, Tufkufu Zuberi. Part III Du Bois and the Sociology of Race: the Sociology of the Souls of Black and White (Among Other) Folk: A classic from the other side of the veil; Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, Charles Lemert; The souls of White folk; W.E.B. Du Bois's critique of White supremacy and contributions to critical White studies, Reiland Rabaka; Four Du Boisian contributions to critical race theory, John Shuford; Remembering the gift: W.E.B. Du Bois on the unconscious and economic operations of racism, Shannon Sullivan. Part IV Du Bois and the Sociology of Gender: 'The Damnation of Women' and the Sociology of the Souls of Black Female Folk: Race, class, and gender in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois: an exploratory study, Betsy Lucal; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and the concepts
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A New Philosophy of Society
Book SynopsisOffers a look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. This book takes the reader on a journey that starts with personal relations and climbs up one scale at a time to territorial states and beyond.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Assemblages Against Totalities; 2. Assemblages Against Essences; 3. Persons and Networks; 4. Organisations and Governments; 5. Cities and Nations.
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Freedom Press Social Policy An Anarchist Response
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Deviant Design
Book SynopsisCraig Martin is Reader in Design Studies in the School of Design at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he teaches on the postgraduate Design for Change programme. He is the author of Deviant Design (Bloomsbury, 2022), Shipping Container (Bloomsbury, 2016) and co-editor, with J. Rugg, of Spatialities (2011).Trade ReviewIn Deviant Design, Craig Martin steps away from the high street to explore an ever-changing shadow world of knock-off products and DIY cities, where counterfeit goods, unregulated hacks and illicit innovations overlap to shape everyday life for billions. A timely and refreshing approach. -- Geoff Manaugh, writer and author of A Burglar’s Guide to the City (2016)"I look awry at design", says Craig Martin. Indeed. This book presents design as we have never seen it before, focusing on deviant and illicit practices that make part of contemporary social and economic life. The author shows how the potential of the illicit allows us to appreciate the radical ways of looking at things, processes, practices and systems. -- Constantin Boym, Chair of Industrial Design, Pratt Institute, USATable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Heterodox Design 1. Expanding Design 2. ‘Social Design’ is Not Social Enough 3. Valuing the Deviant and the Illicit 4. Misusing Things 5. Illicit Design 6. Counterfeit Design Conclusion: The Ethics of Change? References Notes
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Elias Canetti and Social Theory
Book SynopsisElias Canetti is a key thinker in the trend towards the renewal of social theory for the 21st century. He is increasingly being recognised in the social and political sciences for the seminal text, Crowds and Power (1960). While this work can sometimes be criticised for its alleged anti-historicity, anti-modernism, fixation on death, and a dark vision of humankind, Crowds and Power can, in fact, be interpreted as a study and a critique of the mono-dimensionality and the obsessiveness of power. In Canetti's own words, it is an attempt to find the weak spot of power' and, ultimately, an invitation to recognise and explore the endless richness of human transformations. Elias Canetti and Social Theory argues that the alleged anti-modernism of Canetti actually makes him more contemporary than many contemporary social-political thinkers. It deals with key concepts within socio-political theory including: commands, increase, resistance, and commonality. Each of theTrade ReviewIn this commanding and demanding book, Andrea Brighenti prolongs Elias Canetti’s dark reflections on the human condition in brutal times with a wide-ranging study of the elementary forms of power, command and crowds. Canetti is only a pre-text to return to Freud, Durkheim, Tarde and Deleuze to prepare the ground for new forms of collective resistance and individual survival in the twenty-first century. * Frederic Vandenberghe, Professor of Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *This deeply original book offers a most fascinatingaccount of Elias Canetti’s relevance for contemporary social theory. Brighenti brilliantly shows that, though Canetti is widely disregarded by social theorists, this is undeserved, as his work offers a fresh perspective on power, resistance, and the social bond. A truly important intervention. * Christian Borch, Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *This book is an original and thought-provoking interpretation of Canetti, and a significant addition to the far too scarce attempts at a theoretical reading of his work. * Johann P. Arnason, Emeritus professor of sociology, La Trobe University, Australia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Command Chapter 2. Increase Chapter 3. Resistance Chapter 4. Commonality Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime
Book SynopsisThe essays selected for this volume show how radical and Marxist criminology has established itself as an influential critique since it emerged in the late 1960s. Unlike orthodox criminology which emphasizes individual level explanations of criminal behavior, radical and Marxist criminology emphasizes power inequality and structures, especially those related to class, as key factors in crime, law and justice. This collection of essays draws attention to the way in which structural forces shape and influence both individual and institutional (for example, governmental) behavior; highlights neglected crime (corporate, governmental, state-corporate and environmental) which causes more extensive damage than the street crimes examined by orthodox criminology; and discusses the ways in which law and criminal justice processes reinforce power structures and contribute to class control.Trade ReviewMichael J. Lynch, winner of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology. ’...an interesting collection of papers, which gives the reader a good insight in how the strand of RMC has developed over time.’ Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Definitions and Background: Social class and the definition of crime, Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger; From 'crime' to social harm?, Paddy Hillyard and Steve Tombs; Critical criminology and the critique of domination: the story of an intellectual movement, Raymond J. Michalowski; Toward a political economy of crime, William J. Chambliss; The value of quantitative analysis for a critical understanding of crime and society, Steven E. Barkan; Toward a Marxian theory of deviance, Steven Spitzer. Part II Varieties of Radical/Marxist Criminology: The tasks facing a realist criminology, Jock Young; The state of the criminology of crimes of the state, Dawn L. Rothe and David O. Friedrichs; Corporate violence against Canadian women: assessing left-realist research and policy, Walter S. DeKeseredy and Colin Goff; Rape, sexual inequality and levels of violence, Julia Schwendinger and Herman Schwendinger. Part III Explaining Crime: Class and the economics of crime, David M. Gordon; A cross-national test of Bonger's theory of criminality and economic conditions, Olena Antonaccio and Charles R. Tittle; A tale of two capitalisms: preliminary spatial and historical comparisons of homicide rates in Western Europe and the USA, Steve Hall and Craig McLean; The rate of surplus value and crime: a theoretical and empirical examination of Marxian economic theory and criminology, Michael J. Lynch, W. Byron Groves and Alan Lizotte; A critique of criminology: toward an integrated structural-Marxist theory of delinquency production, Mark Colvin and John Pauly; Delinquency and the age structure of society, David F. Greenberg; Poverty, inequality and youth violence, Ronald C. Kramer. Part IV Social Control: Policing and Punishment: Unemployment, imprisonment and social structures of accumulation: historical contingency in the Rusche-Kirchheimer hypothesis, Raymond J. Michalowski and Susan M. Carlson; The Buffalo police, 1872-1900: labor unrest, politi
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Edinburgh University Press Derridas Secret
Book SynopsisThe Snowden Affair, Wikiieaks, the lone wolf terrorist, Hilary Clinton's private email account - the question of the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question: what is a secret?
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Edinburgh University Press Language and Process
Book SynopsisMichael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophyand social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He primarily draws on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, and incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, to view the world as 'in process'.
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Edinburgh University Press Language and Process
Book SynopsisMichael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He primarily draws on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, and incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, to view the world as 'in process'.
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Rowman & Littlefield Symbolic Interaction in Society
Book SynopsisCore text for the symbolic interaction course - often called “Self and Society” or “Individual and Society” – most often taught in sociology departments. Symbolic Interaction in Society offers a systematic application of symbolic interaction to everyday life. In addition to providing an overview of the theory and methods of symbolic interaction, it includes theory and research related to all of the relevant topics in sociology today: race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, social institutions, and social change. This book is written in a way that encourages students to employ symbolic interactionist concepts and principles throughout the text. Students are asked to put themselves into particular situations and consider how they would respond to the other people in that scenario. In doing so, students are able to see that human interaction is both stable and dynamic, that people can be predictable but that they also have agency, the ability to make number of decisions in a given situation. The goal is to show students the practical value of symbolic interaction for understanding their social lives today. Key features include: ·Full review of symbolic interaction concepts and theories including a discussion of the nature of society and the role of the individual in society ·Research applications of symbolic interaction examining major sociological outcomes such as inequality (race, class, gender and sexuality), deviance and mental health, social relationships, family and other social institutions, and social change ·SI Online boxes include a review of how the principles of symbolic interaction apply to the effects of the Internet and modern communications on the individual and society ·Personal Notes boxes share real student applications in which students describe how they have employed symbolic interaction in their personal lives ·Original Work features one short excerpt from a book or journal article in every chapter ·Pedagogical devices such as chapter objectives, key terms, and end of chapter key terms and critical thinking questions guide students through each chapterTable of ContentsPreface 1 The Social Construction of Reality This Book Isn’t Real! Basic Principles Everything Is Not Relative! A Situational Approach The Construction of Society The Individual in Society Cognitive Sociology Two Schools of Symbolic Interaction Chapter Conclusion 2 Studying Symbolic Interaction Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods Verstehen Power Exploration and Inspection Studying Situations Ethnography Types of Ethnography Narrative Analysis Ethnomethodology and Natural Experiments Unobtrusive Research Going into the Field Project Planning Sampling Ethical Issues Chapter Conclusion 3 Constructing Culture Elements of Culture Statuses, Roles, and Norms Values and Beliefs American Culture American Values and Beliefs American Ideal-Type Personalities Baudrillard’s America Creating Cultures Subcultures and Idiocultures Global Culture? Cultural Change Chapter Conclusion 4 Self and Society The I, the Me, and the Self Situational Selves Self-Narratives and Possible Selves Identity Theories Identity Theory Social Identity Theory Dramaturgy Front Stage/Backstage Impressions Given/Impressions Given Off Chapter Conclusion 5 Socialization Cognitive Socialization Symbols and Language Stages of Socialization Agents of Socialization Family Peers Schools Media and Self-Socialization The Sociology of Childhood Socialization over the Life Course Our Role in History Life Stages: Presocialization to Adult Socialization Chapter Conclusion 6 Emotions, Relationships, and Society Contextualizing Emotions Dramaturgy and Emotions Emotional Scripts Emotional Socialization Relationships, Community, and Society Attraction: Starting a Relationship The Socioemotional Economy Community Relations Chapter Conclusion 7 Deviance and Mental Health Defining Normal Levels of Deviance Creating Deviance Moral Entrepreneurs Labeling and De-Labeling Primary and Secondary Deviance Deviant Subcultures Deviance over the Life Course The Myth of Mental Illness Chapter Conclusion 8 Doing Inequality Status Everywhere! Doing Difference Doing Gender Intersectionality Pride and Prejudice Categorizing Self and Other Borderwork Chapter Conclusion 9 Institutional Life The Nature of Social Institutions Institutional Types All in the Family Work and Occupations: The Economy Education Religion and Politics Institutional Intersections and Innovations Chapter Conclusion 10 Collective Behavior The Maddening Crowd Mass Hysteria Circular Reaction New Social Movements Emergent Norm Theory Value-Added Theory The Anatomy of Collective Thoughts and Behavior Collective Memory, Identity, and Imagination Collective Behaviors Chapter Conclusion References Glossary Index
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Little, Brown & Company Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America
Book SynopsisDrawing from the intriguing (and sometimes unbelievable) true stories of the lives of everyday Americans, historian Julie M. Fenster traces the history of the weakening of our national ethics through the practice of cheating. From marital infidelity to financial fraud; rigged sports competitions to corruption in politics and the American education system; nuclear weaponry to beauty pageants; hospitals, TV gameshows, and charities; nothing and no one is exempt. And far from being ostracised, cheaters in every sphere continue to survive and even thrive, casting their influence over the rest of our society. And nowhere is this more obvious than in the recent tectonic shift in politics, where a revolution in our collective attitude toward fraudsters has ushered in a new kind of leadership. Part history of an all-American tradition, part dissection of an ongoing national crisis, Cheaters Always Win is irresistible reading -- a smart, sardonic, and scintillating look into the practice that made America what it is today.
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Black Rose Books Decentralizing Power – Paul Goodman`s Social
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PM Press Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution
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Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility
Book SynopsisGrounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common disciplinary silos in favour of an integrated approach to understanding and practising critical social research. Situated in the North American context, the text draws on cross-cultural examples to give readers a clear sense of the diversity in human social relations. It is organized thematically in a way that introduces readers to the core areas of social research and social organization and takes an unapologetically radical approach in identifying the relations of oppression and exploitation that give rise to what most corporate textbooks euphemistically identify as "social problems." Focusing on key dynamics and processes at the heart of so many contemporary issues and public conversations, this text highlights the ways in which critical social research can contribute to exploring, understanding and forging alternatives to an increasingly bankrupt, violent, unstable and unjust status quo.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions
Book SynopsisThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Winner of the 2015 David Easton Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association (APSA) Global forces are eroding the ability of states to exert sovereign control over their populations, territories, and borders. Yet when dominated subjects across the world dream of freedom, they continue to conceive of it in sovereign terms. Sovereign freedom haunts the imagination of oppressed ethnic minorities, popular masses ruled by foreign powers or homegrown tyrants, indigenous peoples, and individuals chafing under customary or governmental restrictions. On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions draws on political theory and on two case studies – the encounter between Anglo-American settlers and Native American tribes, and the search for Jewish sovereignty in Palestine – to probe the allure of the idea of sovereign freedom and its self-defeating logic. It concludes by shifting its sights from political to economic sovereign power and by pursuing intimations of non-sovereign freedom in the contemporary age.Trade Review[D]eeply engaging. * Economic Political Science *Joan Cocks is the best writer working today in political theory. This book, striking evidence of a heartful mind, charts the abundant human costs of casting sovereignty as freedom and calls instead for a turn to ‘natural freedom’ – the freedom to ‘indulge in all the sensory delights to be had in the physical world around us, including the delights of meeting natural life forms that are entrancing because they are neither like us nor for us.’ This is a brilliant, inspiring work that I read with pleasure in one sitting. * Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor, Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science, Brown University, USA, and author of Antigone, Interrupted and Emergency Politics. *Reflecting on the twentieth century, you may have suspected that freedom through sovereignty was a snare and delusion. If so, this is the book that will ‘nail’ it for you. Joan Cocks gives us a lucid, original, and carefully argued demonstration of how the quest for sovereign freedom in the United States and Israel entailed, necessarily, the dispossession and erasure of other life worlds and cultural identities. This is political history and philosophy at its most convincing. * James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA *In the best tradition of political thinking and engagement, this book is a deep meditation on the concept of sovereignty. It helps us understand why this concept and the actions that follow from it need to be jettisoned. With sustained moral seriousness, it shows how the idea of mastering peoples and places is now a fantasy with dire implications for human beings and for the earth. * Uday S. Mehta, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, City University of New York, USA, and author of Liberalism and Empire *
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Verso Books An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army
Book SynopsisFredric Jameson's pathbreaking essay "An American Utopia" radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are-among other things-universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be overcome. To create a new world, we must first change the way we envision the world. Jameson's text is ideally placed to trigger a debate on the alternatives to global capitalism. In addition to Jameson's essay, the volume includes responses from philosophers and political and cultural analysts, as well as an epilogue from Jameson himself.Many will be appalled at what they will encounter in these pages-there will be blood! But perhaps one has to spill such (ideological) blood to give the Left a chance.Trade ReviewIn An American Utopia, Jameson affirms the critical function of utopian thinking and the efficacies of the form itself. He insists that the fundamental function of utopias is to revive a sense of the future, which requires taking aim at the forces that prevent us from venturing out from the comfortingly familiar confines of the present. -- Kathi WeeksJameson...gives us good reasons to call back utopia from obscurity. * Rain Taxi *
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Violence and Social Transformation in Libya
Book SynopsisTen years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country--what has happened to inter-community and inter-personal relations, to social hierarchies and elite composition? Which new groups, networks and identities have formed through conflict, and how has this transformed power structures, modes of capital accumulation and governance at the local and national levels? How has the violence contributed to create new communities, both inside the country and in exile? This volume brings together leading researchers, both foreign and Libyan, to examine the deep changes undergone by Libya's society amid civil war. These transformations are bound to shape the country for decades to come, and will influence its relations with the outside world. By addressing neglected yet crucial aspects of social change amid violence, the contributors substantially broaden the picture of Libyan society beyond the current confines of scholarship, as well as enriching wider debates in Conflict Studies.Trade Review'An outstanding set of contributors detail the complexities of the social, military and financial conflicts that have wracked Libya for the past decade, negating simplistic narratives prevalent among the international community. Essential reading for those who have not yet understood the costs and consequences of foreign backing for malign actors in Libya's tragedy.' -- Ian Martin, former Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, and author of All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya‘A timely book featuring contributions from experts both foreign and Libyan that does much to untangle and explain the many strands at play in the Libya theatre and how they interact and engage with each other.’ -- Arab Digest'A brilliant study of the societal impact of Libya's enduring conflict. A must-read for anybody interested in understanding how wars can lacerate a country's identity and its social fabric, leaving lasting scars that have yet to heal.' -- Claudia Gazzini, Senior Analyst for Libya, International Crisis Group'An excellent review of how the turbulence and fragmentation of the last decade has upended Libyan society. Shedding light on topics normally not well covered, the chapters on the violent transformation of the cities of Sabha and Benghazi are particularly insightful and compelling.' -- Stephanie Williams, former UN Special Adviser on Libya'This up-to-date and in-depth account is a must-read for anybody who wants to look beyond day-to-day power struggles to understand the underlying social, political and generational dynamics that animate them.' -- Judith Scheele, Director of Studies, EHESS, and co-author of The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara'An exceptionally deeply researched, pathbreaking collection which examines at a granular level the profound and understudied ways in which endemic violence has reshaped politics and society in Libya since 2011.' -- Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and Director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Violence and Social Transformation in Libya
Book SynopsisTen years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country--what has happened to inter-community and inter-personal relations, to social hierarchies and elite composition? Which new groups, networks and identities have formed through conflict, and how has this transformed power structures, modes of capital accumulation and governance at the local and national levels? How has the violence contributed to create new communities, both inside the country and in exile? This volume brings together leading researchers, both foreign and Libyan, to examine the deep changes undergone by Libya's society amid civil war. These transformations are bound to shape the country for decades to come, and will influence its relations with the outside world. By addressing neglected yet crucial aspects of social change amid violence, the contributors substantially broaden the picture of Libyan society beyond the current confines of scholarship, as well as enriching wider debates in Conflict Studies.Trade Review'An outstanding set of contributors detail the complexities of the social, military and financial conflicts that have wracked Libya for the past decade, negating simplistic narratives prevalent among the international community. Essential reading for those who have not yet understood the costs and consequences of foreign backing for malign actors in Libya's tragedy.' -- Ian Martin, former Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, and author of All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya'A brilliant study of the societal impact of Libya's enduring conflict. A must-read for anybody interested in understanding how wars can lacerate a country's identity and its social fabric, leaving lasting scars that have yet to heal.' -- Claudia Gazzini, Senior Analyst for Libya, International Crisis Group'An excellent review of how the turbulence and fragmentation of the last decade has upended Libyan society. Shedding light on topics normally not well covered, the chapters on the violent transformation of the cities of Sabha and Benghazi are particularly insightful and compelling.' -- Stephanie Williams, former UN Special Adviser on Libya'This up-to-date and in-depth account is a must-read for anybody who wants to look beyond day-to-day power struggles to understand the underlying social, political and generational dynamics that animate them.' -- Judith Scheele, Director of Studies, EHESS, and co-author of The Value of Disorder: Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara'An exceptionally deeply researched, pathbreaking collection which examines at a granular level the profound and understudied ways in which endemic violence has reshaped politics and society in Libya since 2011.' -- Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and Director of the Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University
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Verso Books Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy
Book SynopsisClassical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital?Across every continent, people think inequality is a 'very big problem'. Even the Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they are worried. And yet capitalist states don't respond. How has democracy been transformed from a popular demand for social justice into a professional power game?To dispel our worsening political malaise, Göran Therborn argues, requires a 'disruptive democracy' of radical social movements, such as the climate strike. Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy opens with a major new essay mapping the social fractures of the present era. There is also a compact historical survey of worldwide patterns of democratization and a landmark analysis of the OECD economies, 'The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy', originally published in New Left Review and collected here in book form for the first time.Trade ReviewAt a time when historians and economists tend to retire behind the barricades of their increasingly specialized professions, answering the big comparative questions about the pathways into and out of modernity, the global processes of inequality and the forces of possible change have been largely left to the sociologists. In my view, Göran Therborn, has made more essential contributions in these fields than anyone else, by a combination of analytical lucidity, common sense and an extraordinary command of international comparative data. -- Eric Hobsbawm, author of The Age of ExtremesA tour de force. Therborn explores the complex relationship between capitalism and democracy with great originality and insight -- Colin Crouch, author of Post-Democracy After the CrisesHow much inequality can democracy withstand before it collapses? Göran Therborn addresses this fundamental question and gives us cause to hope for a more egalitarian future -- Donatella della Porta, author of Where Did the Revolution Go?One of the world's leading analysts. Therborn has given us valuable intellectual tools with which to work. -- Chris Maisano * Jacobin *
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Verso Books Democratizing Finance: Restructuring Credit to
Book SynopsisWhat if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few? Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue that an entirely different financial system is both desirable and possible. They outline concrete steps that could get us there. Financial systems move the worlds savings from investment to investment, chasing the highest rates of return. They run on profit. But what if investment went to the enterprises or institutions that provided things that the majority of people would prioritize? Democratizing Finance includes six responses that seek to amend, elaborate, and challenge the arguments developed by Hockett and Block. Some of the core arguments put forward by other contributors include calls for the rapid elimination of private financial entities, the dilemmas of the politics associated with financial reforms, and the fate of parallel proposals advanced in the US in the 1930s.
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AK Press Deciding For Ourselves
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Rudolf Steiner Press Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform: Threefolding
Book SynopsisHow might we improve the way we organize society, so that human beings can live in greater peace, dignity and justice? Against a background of chronic discontent and social conflict around the globe, Richard Masters presents a comprehensive survey of Rudolf Steiner's work on societal reform, sifting through and summarizing the content of dozens of books, lectures and discussions. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) is not known today for his social thinking, but he wrote and spoke at length on such issues during and after WWI, engaging with audiences ranging from royalty, politicians and business owners to illiterate, dispossessed factory workers. Central to his ideas was his 'threefold' approach to politics, economics and culture, arguing that their roles should be clarified and the three spheres allowed to thrive independently. Drawing on the full range of source material - including much not yet available in English - the author reveals the continuing relevance of Steiner's work to our contemporary situation. With an emphasis on accessibility, he builds up the subject methodically, studying the main ideas from differing perspectives. He also provides candid reflections on the degree to which Steiner's proposals are still applicable to current policy and practice. Authoritative and yet jargon-free, Rudolf Steiner and Social Reform offers innovative and stimulating ideas for anyone concerned with the state of our world.
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Open Gate Press The Failure of the Sexual Revolution: A Reissue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Psychology and Policing
Book SynopsisProvides an accessible account of the way psychology impinges on the work of policingDraws upon mainstream psychological principles and practices to demonstrate their relevance and applicability to a variety of aspects of policingA rapidly growing area of police work increasingly recognised and central both to police training and the academic study of policing.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Person perception and interpersonal skills 2. Attribution, prejudice and stereotyping 3. Recruitment and training 4. Aggression and violence 5. Perception and memory 6. Retrieving information 7. Interviewing suspects 8. Stress and policing 9. Understanding crime patterns and profiling offenders 10. Negotiation and hostage taking Conclusions
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University College Dublin Press Involvement and Detachment
Book Synopsis"Involvement and Detachment" is much more than a discussion of 'objectivity' in the social sciences. It is Elias' major exposition of his sociological theory of the growth of knowledge and the sciences as an aspect of overall human social development. The essay 'The fishermen in the maelstrom' takes its title from a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and is used to illustrate how fears have to be overcome in order for 'reality-adequate' knowledge - necessary to tackle the dangers from which the fears arise - to accumulate. Discussions of rising dangers in international relations show how far the theory of civilising process is from being a model of unilinear 'progress'. Two fragments on 'The great evolution' discuss the long-term development of the various levels of scientific knowledge - physical, biological and social. Originally written in English, it includes various passages omitted from the previous edition.Trade Review"Elias's thesis concerning the varying degrees of involvement and detachment in the arts and sciences constitutes his most systematic and comprehensive contribution to the sociology of knowledge." "In many ways the notes by the editors which preface these volumes can ... be read as biographical illustrations of Elias's own ongoing intellectual meditations on the tensions between involvement and detachment, and with his continuing personal and professional confrontation with the problem of time." "well worth the dedicated study and patient reflection [it] demand[s] of readers." Canadian Journal of Sociology 33 (1) 3008 "The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise." S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 "Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets." Books Ireland Nov 08Table of ContentsCONTENTS Norbert Elias, 1897-1990; Note on the text; Introduction (by Norbert Elias); Problems of involvement and detachment; The fishermen in the maelstrom; Reflections on the great evolution: two fragments; Textual variants; Bibliography; Index.
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University College Dublin Press The Society of Individuals
Book SynopsisPhilosophers and social scientists have for decades - centuries even - tied themselves in knots over the supposed problem of 'individual' versus 'society', and its offshoots such as 'agency' and 'structure'. Elias shows the falsity of problem, which ought to be easily resolved by thinking in terms of processes extending over the generations - though in practice the baleful influence of philosophy leads to its constant resurrection. "The Society of Individuals" consists of three essays, the first written in 1939, the second dating from the 1940s and 1950s, and the third a final reflection composed in 1987 only three years before Elias' death. In each, Elias takes the discussion to a new level, demonstrating that individualisation is an inherent component of the personal socialisation process and of inter-generational civilising processes, exploding the myth of the 'We-less ego', and introducing important conceptual innovations, including 'I-identity' versus 'We-identity' and the 'We-I balance'.Trade Review'The enterprise of publishing the collected works of Norbert Elias under the editorship of Richard Kilminster and Stephen Mennell by University College Dublin Press is an extremely important contribution to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene. Norbert Elias was one of the most original minds in the human and social sciences in the 20th century - his work covers not only a very broad range of sociological topics starting with his classical The Civilising Process and later The Court Society, but also many topics ranging from sociology of knowledge to sociology of sport and analysis of historical processes; the broad philosophical problems, such as the idea of the place of the progress of symbolic dimensions in social life. This is really a monumental enterprise, very worthwhile and very constructive, presenting a great challenge to the contemporary intellectual and academic scene - and UCD Press should be congratulated in undertaking this enterprise.' S. N. Eisenstadt Jerusalem, 24 July 2008 'Too easily the editors and readers of Books Ireland take it as given that Irish publishers' books are mostly about Ireland or by Irish writers. We wish it were not so because we think our publishers are of world class, and a shining exception and exemplar is this series of eighteen volumes of the life's work in English - some of his work was written in German - of Elias (1897-1990) whose major theme was the theory of civilising processes - Norbert is very interesting on the subject as well as on the dynamics of sports, social (and especially male) bonding, violence and football hooliganism. These books are in the very best tradition of design, with acid-free paper, sewn bindings, cloth boards, coloured endpapers, spine labels and acetate jackets.' Books Ireland Nov 08 'monumental series of the writings of Norbert Elias, regarded as one of the outstanding European thinkers and sociologists of the twentieth century - The books are handsomely produced in decent uniform bindings, each with an introductory essay and notes on the text.' Books Ireland October 2009Table of ContentsNorbert Elias (1897-1990); Note on the text; Preface; Part I: The Society of Individuals (1939); Part II: Problems of self-consciousness and the image of man (1940s-1950s): Wishful and fearful self-images of humans as individuals and of society; The thinking statues individualisation in the social process; Part III: Changes in the we-I balance (1987); Appendix I: Rainer Maria Rilke, 'The Book of Pilgrimage'; Appendix II: Two poems by Goethe; Appendix III: Power struggles and the concepts of 'state' and 'society'; Appendix IV: Migration and the conflict of generations; Bibliography; Index.
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Daraja Press Transforming The World, Transforming Ourselves:
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BoD - Books on Demand Le racisme ordinaire
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Über den Umgang mit Kränkungen
Book SynopsisKränkung hat viele Gesichter. Was Menschen kränkt und beleidigt, gewinnt Macht über sie. Das, was eine Gesellschaft gegen Kränkungen immunisiert, sind die Stärke ihrer Mitglieder, ihr Selbstvertrauen und ihr Zutrauen dazu, in einer sich ständig verändernden Welt bestehen zu können. Joachim Gauck führt aus, wie diese Stärken auch überall dort emotionale und intellektuelle Sicherheit zu gewährleisten vermögen, wo sich Menschen in ihrem Selbstverständnis und in ihrem Selbstwert angegriffen fühlen. Im privaten Bereich und in der Politik müssen deshalb die Voraussetzungen dafür geschaffen werden, dass gekränkte Menschen und Gemeinschaften wieder stabile Identität gewinnen und ihre Würde und souveränen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten verteidigen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Politische Redeweisen
Book SynopsisPolitische Erfolge wie Misserfolge werden immer wieder auf Kommunikation zurückgeführt - Politiker konnten Wählerinnen entweder nicht "abholen" oder hatten doch eine überzeugende Kampagne. Dank moderner Massenmedien kommt es zunehmend auf die Präsentation von Politik an; Wähler entscheiden nicht länger nach stabilen und erwartbaren Präferenzen, sondern reagieren spontan auf Debatten, Inszenierungen und auf die Mediennutzung von Kandidaten. Unter den Bedingungen digital verstärkter Kommunikation haben sich nun die Möglichkeiten und Chancen zu Teilhabe und Mitwirkung an Debatten vergrößert, wodurch jedoch auch die Wahrscheinlichkeit von Skandalisierung und Empörung gestiegen ist. Damit stellt sich die Frage, wie politische und öffentliche Akteure in dieser Gemengelage kommunizieren können und sollen. Jeder, der eine Gruppe zu repräsentieren beansprucht, steht derzeit vor ähnlichen Herausforderungen: Wie lassen sich Überzeugungen erklären und absichern? Wie lässt sich verbindlich sprechen, wenn man dank des Kreislaufs von Reaktion und Kritikum die Anfechtbarkeit eigener Ansichten weiß? Astrid Séville und Julian Müller fragen daher nach den Möglichkeiten öffentlicher Ansprache. In Anlehnung an Erving Goffmans Begriff der Redeweisen richten sie den Blick auf heutige Formen öffentlicher Rede in Deutschland. Dabei stehen nicht die radikalen Ränder, sondern die Neuverhandlungen des politisch Etablierten, Bürgerlichen und Demokratischen im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit – von Robert Habeck und Carolin Emcke bis hin zu Luisa Neubauer oder Lars Eidinger. In den einzelnen Kapiteln wird anhand ausgewählter Beispiele untersucht, wie die angefochtene "Mitte" kommuniziert. Dabei werden verschiedene Varianten öffentlichen Sprechens skizziert.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Wirklichkeit/Fiktion: Spannungsfelder eines Verhältnisses
Book SynopsisWirklichkeit und Fiktion sind ontologische Grundkategorien, aber nicht nur Sache der Philosophie. Auch die Theoriebildung unterschiedlicher Geisteswissenschaften entwickelt ein Verständnis dieser Kategorien und setzt sie in ein Verhältnis. Dieses Verhältnis ist spannungsvoll: Kulturelle Phänomene zeugen von der Trennung und Hierarchisierung ebenso wie von Versuchen der Auflösung, Verschiebung oder Verwechslung beider Kategorien. Dieser Band eröffnet ein Gespräch der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften über Phänomene und Theoriefiguren, in denen Wirklichkeit und Fiktion sich begegnen, verschränken, überlagern und modifizieren. Anstatt das Wirkliche und das Fiktive theoretisch zu isolieren, geht es in den vorliegenden Beiträgen darum, sie in ihrem Wechselspiel und ihrer oszillierenden Relation zueinander zu beschreiben.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Walter Eucken: Ein Leben für Menschenwürde und
Book SynopsisDiese biographische Studie nimmt das Leben Walter Euckens in den Blick, eines der bedeutendsten Ökonomen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er hat mit Kollegen aus der Rechtswissenschaft die Tradition der Freiburger Ordnungsökonomik begründet. Seine Erkenntnisse zu den Funktionsbedingungen einer freiheitlichen Wirtschafts- und Sozialordnung, die Wettbewerb und Menschenwürde in den Mittelpunkt stellt, wurden ideelle Grundlage für die Soziale Marktwirtschaft in Deutschland. Dieses Lebensbild Euckens stützt sich auf einen beträchtlichen Teil seiner nachgelassenen Korrespondenz. Er war in einen großen Familien-, Freundes-, Kollegen- und Schülerkreis eingebunden. Als wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Lehrer und Forscher war er ein unangepasster Denker, der eigene Wege bahnte. Im Rahmen der Freiburger Kreise engagierte er sich im Widerstand gegen die NS-Diktatur. In den Nachkriegsjahren wirkte er in der Politikberatung und plädierte vehement für den ordnungspolitischen Kurs der Freiburger Schule.
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BoD - Books on Demand Die weiblich werdende Welt
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Oxford University Press A Century of British Geography
Book SynopsisThese essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. Never before has such an ambitious and wide-ranging review been attempted, and never before has it been done with so much knowledge and passion. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map-making and planning. The volume also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems. This lively and accessible work offers many insights into the minds and practices of today''s geographers.Trade Reviewan impressive collection of essays penned by a star-studded cast. * Hugh Clout, Australian Geographical Studies *Each essay is scholarly, highly informative, and richly referenced ... this large tome is not a difficult read and is highly appropriate for dipping into ... most welcome. * Environment and Planning *A Century of British Geography is a finely produced and finely written volume. * Trevor Barnes, Journal of Historical Geography *Table of ContentsBritish geography 1500-1900: an imprecise review ; The institutionalisation of geography as an academic discipline ; Physical geography and geography as an environmental science ; The domestication of the earth: humans and environments in prehistoric times ; The creation of humanised landscapes ; People and the contemporary environment ; Place description, regional geography and area studies: the chorographic inheritance ; The passion of place ; Order in space: geography as a discipline in distance ; Global, national and local ; Geography displayed: maps and mapping ; ; The geographical underpinning of society and its radical transformation ; Geography applied ; Geographers and environmental change ; The geography of disease distributions ; Geographers and the urban century ; Geographers and the fragmented city ; Geographers and the regional problem ; Geographers and sexual difference: feminist contributions ; Geographers, ethics and social concern
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The University of Chicago Press Metatheory in Social Science Pluralisms and
Book SynopsisWhat is the nature of the social sciences? What kinds of knowledge can theyand should theyhope to create? Are objective viewpoints possible and can universal laws be discovered? Questions like these have been asked with increasing urgency in recent years, as some philosophers and researchers have perceived a crisis in the social sciences. Metatheory in Social Science offers many provocative arguments and analyses of basic conceptual frameworks for the study of human behavior. These are offered primarily by practicing researchers and are related to problems in disciplines as diverse as sociology, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and philosophy of science. While various points of view are expressed in these nineteen essays, they have in common several themes, including the comparison of social and natural science, the role of knowledge in meeting the demands of society and its pressing problems, and the nature and role of subjectivity in science. Some authors hold that subjectivity
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The University of Chicago Press The View of Life Four Metaphysical Essays with
Book SynopsisGeorg Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. This title features Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel's last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.Trade Review"Simmel is the only social theorist one can read anymore." (Max Horkheimer)
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The University of Chicago Press On KnowingThe Social Sciences
Book SynopsisAs a philosopher, Richard McKeon spent his career developing Pragmatism in a new key, specifically by tracing the ways in which philosophic problems arise in fields other than philosophyacross the natural and social sciences and aestheticsand showed the ways in which any problem, pushed back to its beginning or taken to its end, is a philosophic problem. The roots of this book, On KnowingThe Social Sciences, are traced to McKeon's classes where he blended philosophy with physics, ethics, politics, history, and aesthetics. This volumethe second in a seriesleaves behind natural science themes to embrace freedom, power, and history, which, McKeon argues, lay out the whole field of human action. The authors McKeon considersHobbes, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Kant, and J. S. Millshow brilliantly how philosophic methods work in action, via analyses that do not merely reduce or deconstruct meaning, but enhance those texts by reconnecting them to the active history of philosophy and to problems o
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The University of Chicago Press Social Theory Now
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The University of Chicago Press Complexities Beyond Nature and Nurture
Book SynopsisRecent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference.Trade Review"Complexities challenges the claim that human behavior is fixed in the human genome. The authors explore the problematic assumptions involved in a 'genes only' approach to human behavior, and they demonstrate that environment and culture are essential ingredients in all efforts to solve human problems. This balanced account of human development is essential reading for policymakers, and the fascinating case studies will provoke lively discussions in undergraduate classrooms across the country." - Elizabeth Brumfiel, Northwestern University"
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The University of Chicago Press Islands of Privacy
Book SynopsisEveryone worries about privacy these days. Packed with stories that are funny and sad, familiar and strange, this book tours the myriad arenas where privacy battles are fought, lost, and won. It explores how we manage our secrets, our phone calls and e-mail, the perimeters of our homes, and our interactions with neighbors.Trade Review"Islands of Privacy is a major work of original research, depicting the processes, exchanges, and concerns involved in the ongoing social negotiation of this thing we call 'privacy.' The strength of Nippert-Eng's closely detailed approach is that it allows us to see that privacy is a complicated value subject to constant change, pressure, defense, and negation. The book is also elegantly written-in admirable Studs Terkel fashion, Nippert-Eng is able to get people to tell some great stories about the things that interest us all." -John Gilliom, author of Overseers of the Poor: Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy"
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The University of Chicago Press On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life
Book SynopsisThis text puts Sigmund Freud in dialogue with Franz Rosenzwig in the service of re-imagining ethical and political life. Santner makes an argument for understanding revelation in theraputic terms and offers a look at how this understanding suggests ways of re-conceiving political community.
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The University of Chicago Press Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
Book SynopsisClifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, non-reductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding.
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The University of Chicago Press The Disobedient Generation Social Theorists in
Book SynopsisCollects autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them children of the '60s. This book illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class, race, the establishment, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution.
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The University of Chicago Press The View of Life Four Metaphysical Essays with
Book SynopsisPublished in 1918, this title is the author's final work. Composed in the years before his death, it was, according to Simmel, his 'testament', a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety.Trade Review"Simmel is the only social theorist one can read anymore." - Max Horkheimer"
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The University of Chicago Press The Rise of the Masses Spontaneous Mobilization
Book SynopsisAn insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 million Americans participated in protests surrounding the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and others as part of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, which is only one of the most recent examples of an immense mobilization of citizens around a cause. In The Rise of the Masses, sociologist Benjamin Abrams addresses why and how people spontaneously protest, riot, and revolt en masse. While most uprisings of such a scale require tremendous resources and organizing, this book focuses on cases where people with no connection to organized movements take to the streets, largely of their own accord. Looking to the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Black Lives Uprising, as well as the historical case of the French Revolution, Abrams lays out a theory of how and why massive mobilizations arise without the large-scalTrade Review“Skillfully drawing on and synthesizing an impressive range of theoretical perspectives, Benjamin Abrams has fashioned a highly original theory of spontaneous mass mobilization. As if that weren’t enough, he goes on to make a compelling, empirically informed case for the application of his affinity-convergence theory to four iconic mass movements, ranging from the French Revolution to the George Floyd Protests of 2020. Anyone interested in the dynamics of spontaneous mass action will want to read this book.” -- Doug McAdam, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Stanford University“Drawing on four diverse cycles of contention. . . . Abrams shows how much of the process of mobilization can be explained as the product of affinities and convergence on the part of unorganized groups—the 'masses' in his title—while their failures can be explained as their inability to create viable and robust structures around their affinities. His book should be read by social movement specialists and by general readers concerned with the current waves of mass mobilization alike. While the book is based on immense reading and research, it is Abrams's deep thinking that I admire most. A very readable and engaging book." -- Sidney Tarrow, author of Power in Movement“Social movements and revolutions are enormously consequential. Yet, their confounding and elusive mysteries are not fully understood. How do they burst forth, who brings them into being, and why do they fail or succeed? Do they spring from spontaneity or organization? The Rise of the Masses squarely confronts these fundamental questions through careful analysis, copious evidence, and enthralling narratives of historic movements. In so doing, Abrams illuminates how these engines of social change operate. This book is a rich fount of knowledge that should be widely read.” -- Aldon Morris, author of The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement"This book will be important reading for those interested in explaining mobilization generally and delving into how we can better understand more spontaneous mobilizations. In addition, it would be of interest to any scholars or publics interested in the four core cases of analysis. I found the book compelling, beautifully written, and convincing." -- Catherine Corrigall-Brown * Social Forces *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Theorizing Mobilization 1. What We Know about Mobilization, and What We Need To 2. Affinity-Convergence Theory Part II: The Egyptian Revolution, 2011 3. Egypt on the Eve of Revolution 4. The Anatomy of a Revolutionary Moment 5. The Fall and Fall of Revolutionary Egypt Part III: Occupy Wall Street 6. Globalizing the Revolution 7. Enter the Occupiers 8. The End of the Extraordinary Part IV: The Black Lives Uprising, 2020 9. From Tragedy to Uprising 10. Mass Mobilization for Black Lives Part V: The French Revolution, 1789 11. Mass Mobilization against the Ancien Régime 12. The Development of Revolutionary Mobilization Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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