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Author : Lawrence A. Scaff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520075474
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Fleeing the Iron Cage written by Lawrence A. Scaff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Bruce Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135197761X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Iron Cage Revisited written by R. Bruce Douglass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the twentieth century, when Germany, among other nations, was undergoing industrialization, Max Weber famously characterized modern life in words that have often been translated as "iron cage." During the industrial era, that image caught on and was often used by scholars to express concerns about the extent to which the actual character of modern life contradicted its emancipatory promise. But we are living in a different time now, when the conditions under which we live seem to be quite different from the ones that pertained in Weber's day. It is a time when, in some respects at least, life seems to be freer and more conducive to experimentation, which has led some people to conclude that our societies have escaped from Weber's "cage." But is that really true? This book challenges that notion, considering the consequences for our way of life of the triumph of neoliberalism as a political force.
Author : Lawrence A. Scaff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691147795
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Max Weber in America written by Lawrence A. Scaff and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Scaff provides new details about Weber's visit to the United States---what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought an immigration, capitalism, science and culture, Romanticism, race diversity, Protestantism, and modernity. Scaff traces Weber's impact on the development of the social sciences in the United States following his death in 1920, examining how We ber's ideas were interpreted, translated, and disseminated by American scholars such as Talcott Parsons and Frank Knight, and how the Weberian canon, codified in America, was reintroduced into Europe after World War II. --
Author : Michael Barnhart
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739104439
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Varieties of Ethical Reflection written by Michael Barnhart and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varieties of Ethical Reflection brings together new cultural and religious perspectives--drawn from non-Western, primarily Asian, philosophical sources--to globalize the contemporary discussion of theoretical and applied ethics. The work pushes ethics beyond a Western philosophical tradition tending toward universalism to infuse and broaden modern ethical theory with relativistic Asian ethical principles. The contributors introduce multicultural concepts and ideas from the Chinese Taoist, Confucian and Neo-Confucian, Indian and East Asian Buddhist, and Hindu traditions, focusing on such areas of moral controversy as the clash between women's rights and culture; universal human rights; abortion and euthanasia in a non-Western setting; and the standardization of medical practice across cultures.
Author : Paul McDonagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973134633
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Iron Cage written by Paul McDonagh and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change often seems more improbable than it is. Still, it comes unannounced at the darkest hour. And sometimes you mustunlock the door from the inside to be free.Can the residents of Elderpark Housing Estate escape the iron cage?Can they change their neighbourhood? Can they change themselves?
Author : Julius Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353242
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Other Side of Joy written by Julius Rubin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a case study of one pietist religious group, the Bruderhof. A Christian brotherhood founded on Anabaptist and evangelical pietist doctrine, they practice community of goods, seeking to emulate the vision of the Apostolic church and fulfill the ethic of brotherhood taught in the Sermon on the Mount. Rubin offers compelling accounts of the lives of Bruderhof apostates who foundered over issues of faith, and relates these crises to the central tenets of Bruderhof theology, their spirituality, and community life.
Author : Michael Thad Allen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262511247
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Technologies of Power written by Michael Thad Allen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-05-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new directions for science and technology studies.The essays were written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue. Contributors Janet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans Weinberger
Author : Henk ten Have
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000440990
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul written by Henk ten Have and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking book explores the connections between health, ethics, and soul. It analyzes how and why the soul has been lost from scientific discourses, healthcare practices, and ethical discussions, presenting suggestions for change. Arguing that the dominant scientific worldview has eradicated talk about the soul and presents an objective and technical approach to human life and its vulnerabilities, Ten Have and Pegoraro look to rediscover identity, humanity, and meaning in healthcare and bioethics. Taking a mulitidisciplinary approach, they investigate philosophical, scientific, historical, cultural, social, religious, economic, and environmental perspectives as they journey toward a new, global bioethics, emphasizing the role of the moral imagination. Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul is an important read for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in bioethics and person-centred healthcare.
Author : Edith Hanke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190679549
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber written by Edith Hanke and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active at the time when the social sciences were founded, Max Weber's social theory contributed significantly to a wide range of fields and disciplines. Considering his prominence, it makes sense to take stock of the Weberian heritage and to explore the ways in which Weber's work and ideas have contributed to our understanding of the modern world. Using his work as a point of departure, The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber investigates the Weberian legacy today, identifying the enduring problems and themes associated with his thought that have contemporary significance: the nature of modern capitalism, neo-liberal global economic policy, nationalism, religion and secularization, threats to legality, the culture of modernity, bureaucratic rule and leadership, politics and ethics, the value of science, power and inequality. These problems are global in scope, and the Weberian approach has been used to address them in very different societies. Thus, the Handbook also features chapters on Europe, Turkey, Islam, Judaism, China, India, and international politics. The Handbook emphasizes the use and application of Weber's ideas. It offers a journey through the intellectual terrain that scholars continue to explore using the tools and perspectives of Weberian analysis. The essays explore how Weber's concepts, hypotheses, and perspectives have been applied in practice, and how they can be applied in the future in social inquiry, not only in Europe and North America, but globally. The volume is divided into six parts exploring, in turn: Capitalism in a Globalized World, Society and Social Structure, Politics and the State, Religion, Culture, and Science and Knowledge.
Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807003091
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Iron Cage written by Rashid Khalidi and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi, one of the most respected historians and political observers of the Middle East, homes in on Palestinian politics and history. By drawing on a wealth of experience and scholarship, Khalidi provides a lucid context for the realities on the ground today, a context that has been, until now, notably lacking in our discourse. The story of the Palestinian search to establish a state begins in the mandate period immediately following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, the era of British control, when fledgling Arab states were established by the colonial powers with assurances of eventual independence. Mandatory Palestine was a place of real promise, with unusually high literacy rates and a relatively advanced economy. But the British had already begun to construct an iron cage to hem in the Palestinians, and the Palestinian leadership made a series of errors that would eventually prove crippling to their dream of independence. The Palestinians' struggle intensified in the stretch before and after World War II, when colonial control of the region became increasingly unpopular, population shifts began with heavy Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe, and power began to devolve to the United States. In this crucial period, Palestinian leaders continued to run up against the walls of the ever-constricting iron cage. They proved unable to achieve their long-cherished goal of establishing an independent state—a critical failure that set a course for the decades that followed, right through the eras of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas. Rashid Khalidi's engrossing narrative of this torturous history offers much-needed perspective for anyone concerned about peace in the Middle East.
Author : Terry Maley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442643366
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought written by Terry Maley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through a detailed analysis of Weber's writings, the intersection of recent work on Weber and on democratic theory, bridging the gap between these two rapidly expanding areas of scholarship. Maley critically examines how Weber's realist 'model' of democracy defines and constrains the possibilities for democratic agency in modern liberal-democracies. Maley also looks at how ideas of historical time and memory are constructed in his writings on religion, bureaucracy, and the social sciences. Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought is both an accessible introduction to Weber's political thought and a spirited defense of its continued relevance to debates on democracy.
Author : M. Weber
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5871296181
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism written by M. Weber and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 2012 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Sica
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351506552
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Max Weber written by Alan Sica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most profound and enduring social theorist of sociology's classical period, Max Weber speaks as cogently to concerns of the new century as he did to those of the past. In Max Weber and the New Century, Alan Sica demonstrated Weber's preeminent position and lasting vitality within social theory by applying his ideas to a broad range of topics of contemporary concern. Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography is a companion volume that offers some 4,600 bibliographic listings of work on Weber, making it the most complete guide to the literature in English and a testament to the continued vitality of Weber's thought. Sica's work supersedes all previous bibliographical efforts covering the Weber literature, both in the quantity and accuracy of its references, and the clarity and convenience of its format. In order to demonstrate the enormous variety of Weberiana in English, Sica has adopted a liberal criterion for inclusion, rather than a critical one, choosing to mix the best with what may be more routine work. Following a preface in which previous bibliographies and bibliographic problems are discussed, the volume opens with a series of five specialized bibliographies. The first lists Weber's works in English translation. The second lists reviews of Weber's major works including those translated into English, while the third covers reviews of recent books and other work on Weber. The fourth section contains a selection of dissertations and theses relating to Weber or his ideas. The fifth includes primary and secondary sources treating Weber on rationality and rationalization processes. The last and largest section offers a comprehensive Weber bibliography of works in English. This large-scale endeavor attempts to identify with accuracy and completeness the entire universe of Weber scholarship in English. It will be an essential scholarly tool for sociologists, historians, economists, and students of cultural and intellectual history.
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Man in the Iron Cage written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579583385
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism written by Max Weber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism --one of the seminal works in sociology-- published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering that captures both Weber's style and the unusual subtlety of his descriptions and causal arguments. Weber's original italicization, highlighting major themes, has been restored, and Kalberg has standardized Weber's terminology to better facilitate understanding of the various twists and turns in his complex lines of reasoning. Weber's compelling work remains influential for these reasons: it explores the continuing debate regarding the origins and legacy of modem capitalism in the West; it helps the reader understand today's global economic development; and it plumbs the deep cultural forces that affect contemporary work life and the workplace in the United States and Europe. This new edition/translation also includes a glossary; Weber's 1906 essay, "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism"; and Weber's masterful prefatory remarks to his Collected Essays in the Sociology of Religion, in which he defines the uniqueness of Western societies and asks what "ideas and interests" combined to create modem Western rationalism
Author : Richard Swedberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187665
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology written by Richard Swedberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most people are familiar with The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, few know that during the last decade of his life Max Weber (1864-1920) also tried to develop a new way of analyzing economic phenomena, which he termed "economic sociology." Indeed, this effort occupies the central place in Weber's thought during the years just before his death. Richard Swedberg here offers a critical presentation and the first major study of this fascinating part of Weber's work. This book shows how Weber laid a solid theoretical foundation for economic sociology and developed a series of new and highly evocative concepts. He not only investigated economic phenomena but also linked them clearly with political, legal, and religious phenomena. Swedberg also demonstrates that Weber's approach to economic sociology addresses a major problem that has haunted economic analysis since the nineteenth century: how to effectively unite an interest-driven type of analysis (popular with economists) with a social one (of course preferred by sociologists). Exploring Weber's views of the economy and how he viewed its relationship to politics, law, and religion, Swedberg furthermore discusses similarities and differences between Weber's economic sociology and present-day thinking on the same topic. In addition, the author shows how economic sociology has recently gained greater credibility as economists and sociologists have begun to collaborate in studying problems of organizations, political structures, social problems, and economic culture more generally. Swedberg's book will be sure to further this new cooperation.
Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761941873
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Social Theory written by George Ritzer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-07-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Social Theory presents an authoritative and panoramic critical survey of the development, achievement and prospects of social theory.
