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Author : Brian Fay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780043000489
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Social Theory and Political Practice written by Brian Fay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745666566
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Politics, Sociology and Social Theory written by Anthony Giddens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178960981X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Politics, Volume 2 - Social Theory written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger's ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements and the vindication of their necessity. Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen opportunities to advance progressive commitments. To seize such opportunities, however, we must rethink many of our basic beliefs about society about what it is and what it can become. Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task shows that what at first seems a circumstance of intellectual and political paralysis turns out to be rich in unrecognized transformative possibility.
Author : Alexander Wendt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107268435
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Social Theory of International Politics written by Alexander Wendt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He builds a cultural theory of international politics, which takes whether states view each other as enemies, rivals or friends as a fundamental determinant. Wendt characterises these roles as 'cultures of anarchy', described as Hobbesian, Lockean and Kantian respectively. These cultures are shared ideas which help shape state interests and capabilities, and generate tendencies in the international system. The book describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.
Author : Brian Fay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317652282
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) written by Brian Fay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is argued, are implicit in these models; moreover, it proposes a third model – the critical – which is organised around an explicit account of the relation between social theory and practical life. The book has the special merit of being a good overview of the principal current ideas about the relation between social theory and political practice, as well as an attempt at providing a new and more satisfactory account of this relationship. To accomplish this task, it synthesises work from the analytic philosophy of social science with that of the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt school.
Author : Aeron Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136940286
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Political Communication and Social Theory written by Aeron Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies, this book challenges the traditional scholarship on various issues such as: comparative political and media systems; theories of democracy, representation and the public sphere; and, political party communication, marketing and elections.
Author : Craig Calhoun
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557864734
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Social Theory and the Politics of Identity written by Craig Calhoun and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New social movements of the post-war era have brought to prominence the idea that identity can be a crucial focus for political struggle. Linked to an increasing recognition that social theory itself must put the politics of identity on center stage, this volume impels social theorists not only to make sense of the "world out there", but also to make sense of differences within the discourse of theory.
Author : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787351246
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Social Theory after the Internet written by Ralph Schroeder and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.
Author : Carsten Bagge Laustsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317329716
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Social Theory written by Carsten Bagge Laustsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory. Framed around paired theoretical perspectives on a series of sociological problems, the book shows how distinctive viewpoints shed light on different facets of social phenomena. The book includes sociology’s "founding fathers", major 20th-century thinkers and recent voices such as Butler and Zizek. Philosophically grounded and focused on interpretation and analysis, the book provides a clear understanding of theory’s scope while developing students’ skills in evaluating, applying and comparing theories.
Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338646
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Politics: Volume 2, Comparative-Historical Studies on the Institutional Conditions of Economic and Military Success written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variations of themes of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
Author : Ian Craib
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317325273
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Modern Social Theory written by Ian Craib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a clear, accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern social theory.As with the first edition, the book is based around the themes of structure and action. After the introductory chapters which examine the nature of theory and its role in the social world, the book then turns to theories of action and the inability of those theories to comprehend social structures in a coherent way.Part 1 covers: Parson's structural-functionalism and the development of conlict theory and neofunctionalism; rational choice theory; symbolic interactionism; ethnomethodology and structuration theory.Part 2 looks at structuralism, structuralist Marxism, and the development of post-structuralist and postmodernist theory.Part 3 examines Critical Theory and the work of Jurgen Habermas.In conclusion, Ian Craib discusses current trends in theory and what might be expected in the future.This second edition has been revised throughout. There are new chapters on rational choice theory and structuration theory and existing chapters have been extended to deal with the development of neofunctionalism, postmodernism and the recent works of Habermas as well as recent developments in other approaches.Throughout, the aim of the book is to demystify a diffcult subject area, emphasising the practical and everyday nature of theoretical thinking in the context of making sense of a rapidly changing world. The late Ian Craib was Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex.
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317650646
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory) written by Anthony Giddens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.
Author : Diane E. Davis
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849506671
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Political Power and Social Theory written by Diane E. Davis and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. This title showcases articles that pursue similar themes.
Author : Daniel Chernilo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134150121
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book A Social Theory of the Nation-State written by Daniel Chernilo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Social Theory of the Nation-State construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline.
Author : John Milbank
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470693312
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Theology and Social Theory written by John Milbank and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised edition of John Milbank’s masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory. The Times Higher Education Supplement wrote of the first edition that it was “a tour de force of systematic theology. It would be churlish not to acknowledge its provocation and brilliance”. Featured in The Church Times “100 Best Christian Books" Brings this classic work up-to-date by reviewing the development of modern social thought. Features a substantial new introduction by Milbank, clarifying the theoretical basis for his work. Challenges the notion that sociological critiques of theology are ‘scientific’. Outlines a specifically theological social theory, and in doing so, engages with a wide range of thinkers from Plato to Deleuze. Written by one of the world’s most influential contemporary theologians and the author of numerous books.
Author : Gerald F. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139444190
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Social Movements and Organization Theory written by Gerald F. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becoming more movement-like - more volatile and politicized - while movements are more likely to borrow strategies from organizations. Organization theory and social movement theory are two of the most vibrant areas within the social sciences. This collection of original essays and studies both calls for a closer connection between these fields and demonstrates the value of this interchange. Three introductory, programmatic essays by leading scholars in the two fields are followed by eight empirical studies that directly illustrate the benefits of this type of cross-pollination. The studies variously examine the processes by which movements become organized and the role of movement processes within and among organizations. The topics covered range from globalization and transnational social movement organizations to community recycling programs.
Author : Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745611327
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber written by Wolfgang J. Mommsen and published by Polity. This book was released on 1993-01-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang J. Mommsen is one of the foremost Weberian scholars writing today. In this volume, a sequel to his monumental study Max Weber and German Politics , he provides succinct and incisive statements on current developments in the analysis of Weber's work. The book concentrates upon Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts. Mommsen offers a critical analysis of Weber's notion of democracy and provides a thorough assessment of Weber's views of socialism against the backcloth of German Social Democracy.
