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It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary topics, such as violence, social movements, equality, identity and democracy. Foregrounding the imagination of possibilities (utopia), the mapping of the present (theory), and the transformation of the world-system (historical and global questions), the book surveys central issues and paradigms in contemproary political sociology, urging a recommitment to certain concepts and traditions for guidance in thinking and acting in the world.

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Introduction On Sociology Traditions and Concepts Transformations Ideologies and Utopias Masses Identities Movements Violence Globalization Equality Concluding Reflections Notes Bibliography Index

Politics Social Theory Utopia and the WorldSystem

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: 1/1/2012 12:01:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781349319251, 978-1349319251
      ISBN10: 1349319252
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary topics, such as violence, social movements, equality, identity and democracy. Foregrounding the imagination of possibilities (utopia), the mapping of the present (theory), and the transformation of the world-system (historical and global questions), the book surveys central issues and paradigms in contemproary political sociology, urging a recommitment to certain concepts and traditions for guidance in thinking and acting in the world.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction On Sociology Traditions and Concepts Transformations Ideologies and Utopias Masses Identities Movements Violence Globalization Equality Concluding Reflections Notes Bibliography Index

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