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Author : Jeff Alan Weintraub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Virtue, Community, and the Sociology of Liberty written by Jeff Alan Weintraub and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Sirico
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Toward a Free and Virtuous Society written by Robert A. Sirico and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stewart R Clegg
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1847877494
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Power and Organizations written by Stewart R Clegg and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A marvelous addition to the literature on both organizations and power. It is well-grounded in the research on these topics and especially the wide-range of relevant theorizing... The book is terrific at bringing together theory, research and the world of organizations." - George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland "This book tirelessly illuminates the nooks and crannies of the power literature...taking readers on an audacious tour of power′s multiple conceptualizations and expressions." - Hugh Willmott, Diageo Professor of Management Studies, University of Cambridge "Clegg and his associates expose the power dynamics that lie at the heart of all political and organizational arenas, and in so doing, they shed light on the underbelly along with the creative potentialities in organizational life." -Joyce Rothschild, Professor of Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University "Strange but true - most studies of organizational hierarchies downplay the issue of power or uncritically assume more is better, while ignoring its pernicious effects. Stewart Clegg, David Courpasson and Nelson Phillips set the record straight." - Joanne Martin, Merrill Professor of Organizational Behavior and, by courtesy, Sociology Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford In this tour de force, Stewart Clegg, David Courpasson and Nelson Phillips provide a comprehensive account of power and organizations, unlocking power as the central relation of modern organizations and society. The authors present an excellent synthesis of organization, social and political theory to offer an overview of power and organizations that is historically informed, addresses current issues and is comprehensive in scope. Power and Organizations reviews the evolution of theories on power and organization, presenting not only the theorists who identify power as positive, but also dealing with the negativity of power and the real horror of which organizations are capable, which has thus far been underplayed in organization theory. At the core of organizational power projects are organizational elites, whose politics and projects are examined extensively in the book. The book concludes by examining the implications for organizations and their elites of the trends, tendencies, and theories considered in the course of the book. This book is required reading for graduate students and researchers in areas such as organizational, social and political theory.
Author : Edward Shils
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865971486
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (714 download)
Download or read book The Virtue of Civility written by Edward Shils and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Shils (1910–1995) was one of the leading intellectual defenders of freedom in the twentieth century. Learned in history, politics, literature, economics, theology, and legal history, he taught for many years at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought and at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. In these nine essays, Shils explores the importance of civility and tradition to a free society. The essays' significance is enormous, for Shils was one of the first and assuredly one of the most courageous writers to examine the natures of civility and civil society and their relation to a free, ordered, liberal democratic society. As H. R. Trevor-Roper has written, "Deeply concerned for the Western values of rationality, freedom, and progress, Shils was dismayed by the threat which they now faced: the threat posed by the absolute individualism into which Western Liberalism had degenerated." Among the essays are "Tradition and Liberty: Antinomy and Interdependence," "Max Weber and the World Since 1920," and "The Modern University and Liberal Democracy." Edward Shils (1910–1995) was Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago, Honorary Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the author of many books, including The Calling of Sociology and The Intellectuals and the Powers Steven Grosby is an Associate Professor at Clemson University.
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307428990
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Mind and the Market written by Jerry Z. Muller and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has developed in Western thought. Ranging across an ideological spectrum that includes Hobbes, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Hegel, Marx, and Matthew Arnold, as well as twentieth-century communist, fascist, and neoliberal intellectuals, historian Jerry Muller examines a fascinating thread of ideas about the ramifications of capitalism and its future implications. This is an engaging and accessible history of ideas that reverberate throughout everyday life.
Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191604410
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Hegel: A Very Short Introduction written by Peter Singer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Barry Alan Shain
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224994
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Myth of American Individualism written by Barry Alan Shain and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employed in Revolutionary-era sermons, public documents, newspaper editorials, and political pamphlets, Shain reveals a very different understanding--one based on a reformed Protestant communalism. In this context, individual liberty was the freedom to order one's life in accord with the demanding ethical standards found in Scripture and confirmed by reason. This was in keeping with Americans' widespread acceptance of original sin and the related assumption that a well-lived life was only possible in a tightly knit, intrusive community made up of families, congregations, and local government bodies. Shain concludes that Revolutionary-era Americans defended a Protestant communal vision of human flourishing that stands in stark opposition to contemporary liberal individualism. This overlooked component of the American political inheritance, he further suggests, demands examination because it alters the historical ground upon which contemporary political alternatives often seek legitimation, and it facilitates our understanding of much of American history and of the foundational language still used in authoritative political documents.
Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1935191500
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Quest for Community written by Robert Nisbet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. This edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus features a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.
Author : John Brown
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Thoughts on civil liberty, on licentiousness, and faction written by John Brown and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was published in 1765 only one year before the death of the author. He speaks of the distressing nature of a society that, having endured and won a bloody war, is now turning on itself. LIcentiousness he describes as deliberate acts intended to disobey the law, and faction as those acts carried out to harm society and civil liberty.
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228256
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Other God that Failed written by Jerry Z. Muller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did some of the "best and brightest" of Weimar intellectuals advocate totalitarian solutions to the problems of liberal democratic, capitalist society? How did their "radical conservatism" contribute to the rise of National Socialism? What roles did they play in the Third Reich? How did their experience of totalitarianism lead them to recast their social and political thought? This biography of Hans Freyer, a prominent German sociologist and political ideologist, is a case study of intellectuals and a "god that failed"--not on the political left, but on the right, where its significance has been overlooked. The author explores the interaction of political ideology and academic social science in democratic and totalitarian regimes, the transformation of German conservatism by the experience of National Socialism, and the ways in which tension between former collaborators and former opponents of National Socialism continued to mold West German intellectual life in the postwar decades.
Author : James E. Fleming
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067452
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Ordered Liberty written by James E. Fleming and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleming and McClain defend a civic liberalism that takes seriously not just rights but responsibilities and virtues. Issues taken up include same-sex marriage, reproductive freedom, regulation of civil society and the family, education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms of association and religion and antidiscrimination law.
Author : Mustafa Emirbayer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022625366X
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Racial Order written by Mustafa Emirbayer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond set out to reformulate how we think about this most difficult of topics in American life. In The Racial Order, they draw on Bourdieu, Durkheim, and Dewey to present a new theoretical framework for race scholarship. Animated by a deep and reflexive intelligence, the book engages the large and important issues of social theory today and, along the way, offers piercing insights into how race actually works in America. Emirbayer and Desmond set out to examine how the racial order is structured, how it is reproduced and sometimes transformed, and how it penetrates into the innermost reaches of our racialized selves. They also consider how—and toward what end—the racial order might be reconstructed. In the end, this project is not merely about race; it is a theoretical reconsideration of the fundamental problems of order, agency, power, and social justice. The Racial Order is a challenging work of social theory, institutional and cultural analysis, and normative inquiry.
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691001616
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Adam Smith in His Time and Ours written by Jerry Z. Muller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counter to the popular impression that Adam Smith was a champion of selfishness and greed, Jerry Muller shows that the Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations maintained that markets served to promote the well-being of the populace and that government must intervene to counteract the negative effects of the pursuit of self-interest. Smith's analysis went beyond economics to embrace a larger "civilizing project" designed to create a more decent society.
Author : Virginia Hodgkinson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584658312
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book The Civil Society Reader written by Virginia Hodgkinson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "civil society" anthology for experts and students alike.
Author : Margaret Latus Nugent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042971551X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book From Leninism To Freedom written by Margaret Latus Nugent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book stimulates inquiry into questions about how to facilitate and consolidate transitions from Leninism to market-oriented democracies. It allows readers to appreciate the diversity of opinion that exists on such questions as the causes for what happened and the prospects for the future.
Author : Yves R. Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Freedom and Community written by Yves R. Simon and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Norton Grubb
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Broken Promises written by W. Norton Grubb and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1982-10-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
