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The calling of social thought

Author : Christopher Adair-Toteff
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526120070
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The calling of social thought written by Christopher Adair-Toteff and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social thought. He held appointments both at Chicago and Cambridge and was a crucial link between British and American intellectual life. This volume collects essays by distinguished contributors which deal with the major facets of Shils’ thought, including his relations with Michael Polanyi, his parallels with Michael Oakeshott, his defense of the traditional university, his fundamental philosophical anthropology, and his important work on such topics as tradition, civility, and the nation. As an introduction to this complex and original thinker, it will be of interest to scholars and students in a number of fields, including sociology and social theory, but also to anyone interested in the intellectual life as it was lived in the mid-twentieth century, in the face of the Cold War and ideological struggle.

The Calling of Social Thought

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526144669
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Calling of Social Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Shils was a central figure in twentieth century social thought. He held appointments both at Chicago and Cambridge and was a crucial link between British and American intellectual life. This volume collects essays by distinguished contributors which deal with the major facets of Shils' thought, including his relations with Michael Polanyi, his parallels with Michael Oakeshott, his defense of the traditional university, his fundamental philosophical anthropology, and his important work on such topics as tradition, civility, and the nation. As an introduction to this complex and original thinker, it will be of interest to scholars and students in a number of fields, including sociology and social theory, but also to anyone interested in the intellectual life as it was lived in the mid-twentieth century, in the face of the Cold War and ideological struggle. --

War in Social Thought

Author : Hans Joas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691150842
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book War in Social Thought written by Hans Joas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that sociologists have either ignored or grappled with the idea of war and examines the reasons behind this denial of the violent nature of the human race.

Catholic Social Thought

Author : David J. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570758911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Social Thought written by David J. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic compendium of church teaching offers the most complete access to more than 100 years of official statements of the Catholic Church on social issues.

The Social Thought of Max Weber

Author : Stephen Kalberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483371484
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Social Thought of Max Weber written by Stephen Kalberg and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Kalberg's The Social Thought of Max Weber, the newest volume of the SAGE Social Thinkers series, provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influence of Max Weber, considered to be one of three most important founders (along with Marx and Durkheim) of sociology. The book serves as an excellent introduction to the full range of Weber’s major themes, and explores in detail the extent to which they are relevant today. It is ideal for use as a self-contained volume or in conjunction with other sociological theory textbooks.

A History of Social Thought

Author : Emory Stephen Bogardus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A History of Social Thought written by Emory Stephen Bogardus and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essential Catholic Social Thought 2nd edition

Author : Brady, Bernard V.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833709X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Essential Catholic Social Thought 2nd edition written by Brady, Bernard V. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135035105
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought written by Werner Stark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.

Learning to Liberate

Author : Vajra Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136593861
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Liberate written by Vajra Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual calamity of underachievement in schools and violence in many communities across the country is often met with blame and cynicism, and with a host of hurtful and unproductive quick fixes: blaming educators, pitting schools against each other, turning solely to the private sector, and ratcheting up the pressure on teachers and students. But real change will not be possible until we shift our focus from finding fault to developing partnerships, from documenting problems to discovering solutions. Learning to Liberate does just that by presenting true and compelling community-based approaches to school reform. Drawing on over three years of ethnographic research, Vajra Watson explores the complicated process of reaching and teaching today's students. She reveals how four nontraditional educators successfully empower young people who have repeatedly been left behind. Using portraiture, a methodology rooted in vivid storytelling, Watson analyzes each educator's specific teaching tactics. Uncovering four distinct pedagogies—of communication, community, compassion, and commitment—she then pulls together their key strategies to create a theoretically grounded framework that is both useful and effective. A poignant, insightful, and practical analysis, Learning to Liberate is a timely resource for all educators and youth-serving practitioners who are committed to transforming "at-risk" youth into "at-promise" individuals who put their agency and potential into action in their schools and neighborhoods.

Dialogical Social Theory

Author : Donald N. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351294903
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Dialogical Social Theory written by Donald N. Levine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final work, Donald N. Levine, one of the great late-twentieth-century sociological theorists, brings together diverse social thinkers. Simmel, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, and Merton are set into a dialogue with philosophers such as Hobbes, Smith, Montesquieu, Comte, Kant, and Hegel and pragmatists such as Peirce, James, Dewey, and McKeon to describe and analyze dialogical social theory. This volume is one of Levine’s most important contributions to social theory and a worthy summation of his life’s work. Levine demonstrates that approaching social theory with a cooperative, peaceful dialogue is a superior tactic in theorizing about society. He illustrates the advantages of the dialogical model with case studies drawn from the French Philosophes, the Russian Intelligentsia, Freudian psychology, Ushiba’s aikido, and Levine’s own ethnographic work in Ethiopia. Incorporating themes that run through his lifetime’s work, such as conflict resolution, ambiguity, and varying forms of social knowledge, Levine suggests that while dialogue is an important basis for sociological theorizing, it still vies with more combative forms of discourse that lend themselves to controversy rather than cooperation, often giving theory a sense of standing still as the world moves forward. The book was nearly finished when Levine died in April 2015, but it has been brought to thoughtful and thought-provoking completion by his friend and colleague Howard G. Schneiderman. This volume will be of great interest to students and teachers of social theory and philosophy.

Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought

Author : Chad Alen Goldberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646069X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought written by Chad Alen Goldberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the “Jewish Revolution,” Émile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions derived from Christian theology. In the United States, William Thomas, Robert Park, and their students conceived the modern city and its new modes of social organization in part by reference to the Jewish immigrants concentrating there. In all three countries, social thinkers invoked real or purported differences between Jews and gentiles to elucidate key dualisms of modern social thought. The Jews thus became an intermediary through which social thinkers discerned in a roundabout fashion the nature, problems, and trajectory of their own wider societies. Goldberg rounds out his fascinating study by proposing a novel explanation for why Jews were such an important cultural reference point. He suggests a rethinking of previous scholarship on Orientalism, Occidentalism, and European perceptions of America, arguing that history extends into the present, with the Jews—and now the Jewish state—continuing to serve as an intermediary for self-reflection in the twenty-first century.

Modern Catholic Social Teaching

Author : Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013759
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Modern Catholic Social Teaching written by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an equal emphasis on every word in the title—and with a distinctly American perspective—Himes and his distinguished associate editors and contributors, have assembled the most thorough and authoritative assessment of modern Roman Catholic social teaching to date, likely to remain the touchstone volume for decades. This culmination of many years of effort by twenty stellar scholars has produced a reference work for anyone interested in understanding or studying the key documents that comprise the central corpus of Catholic social teaching. In addition to interrogations of the major documents, this volume provides an understanding of the biblical and philosophical foundations of Catholic social teaching, addresses the doctrinal issues that arise in such a context, and explores the social thought leading up to the "modern" era, generally accepted as beginning in 1891 with the publication of Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Finally, there is a review of how Catholic social teaching has been received in the United States, and an informed look at the shortcomings and questions that future generations must address. By any standard, Modern Catholic Social Teaching is a remarkable work—intellectually rigorous and deeply faithful, it provides accessible and thought-provoking insights into the heart of a belief tradition that every Catholic will find invaluable.

The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought

Author : Simeon Tsetim Iber
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433112546
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought written by Simeon Tsetim Iber and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Principle of Subsidiarity in Catholic Social Thought: Implications for Social Justice and Civil Society in Nigeria provides a theoretical and practical framework for a just vision of society. It focuses on how support for individuals and social groups in Nigeria can foster the building of their communities through the practice of social justice. Social justice will ensure the building of trust across ethnic lines, challenge corruption, encourage accountability and servant leadership, protect minority tribes from larger ones, and promote grassroots self-help tribal, communal, religious, and non-governmental associations as agents of positive social change and development. These dynamics interact within a healthy federal structure that respects its constituent parts for the common good. This volume is recommended as a graduate text for courses in theology, religious education, and social philosophy, and for all interested in promoting the common good.

Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: Supplement

Author : Michael L. Coulter
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810882663
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: Supplement written by Michael L. Coulter and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume introducing Catholic social thought features entries on the faith's important figures and movements, and analyzes theory and recent research in the social sciences.

Tough Fronts

Author : L Janelle Dance
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136745998
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Tough Fronts written by L Janelle Dance and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tough Fronts takes the difficult issues in urban education head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best make successful changes for inner city schools. Individual chapters discuss scholarly depictions of black America, the social complexity of the teacher-student relationship, individual success stories of 'at-risk' programs, popular images of urban students, and implications for education policy. With close attention to the voices of individual students, this engaging book gives vitality and legitimacy to arguments for school changes that have been lacking in previous discussions.

The Call to Personhood

Author : Alistair I. McFadyen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521409292
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Call to Personhood written by Alistair I. McFadyen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to answer the question 'What is a person?'. Although the answer is given in largely theoretical terms, the author is concerned primarily with practice: what does it mean to live as a human person in community with others? What personal, social, and political practices are required by personal being? The central insight, that human identity is most productively understood in communicational terms, leads to an account of personhood which is both compassionate and which - at the same time - keeps sight of the particularity of each individual.

Writers and Social Thought in Africa

Author : Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317378628
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Writers and Social Thought in Africa written by Wale Adebanwi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social theory and social theorizing about Africa has largely ignored African literature. However, because writers are some of the continent’s finest social thinkers, they have produced – and continue to produce – works which constitute potential sources for the analysis of social thought, and for constructing social theory, in and beyond the continent. This comprehensive collection examines the relationship between African literature and African social thought. It explores the evolution and aesthetics of social thought in African fiction, and African writers’ conceptions of power and authority, legitimacy, history and modernity, gender and sexuality, culture, epistemology, globalization, and change and continuity in Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.