Social Theory and Political Practice
Author : Brian Fay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Participation politique
ISBN : 9780043000489
Author : Brian Fay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Participation politique
ISBN : 9780043000489
Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745666566
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
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178960981X
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
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107268435
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
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317652282
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
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,50 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1136940286
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 : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1787351246
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 : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1987-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521338646
Variations of themes of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
Author : Diane E. Davis
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849506671
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 : Julian Go
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1781907277
Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations.