The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
Author : Alvin Ward Gouldner
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Sociology
ISBN :
Author : Alvin Ward Gouldner
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Sociology
ISBN :
Author : Alvin Ward Gouldner
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1970-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Raymond Boudon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 1981-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349036862
Author : Alvin Ward Gouldner
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1980-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465012794
Author : Sylvia Walby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 150950320X
We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly, the effects of the crisis are exacerbating class and gender inequalities. Rival interpretations – a focus on ‘austerity’ and reduction in welfare spending versus a focus on ‘financial crisis’ and democratic regulation of finance – are used to justify radically diverse policies for the distribution of resources and strategies for economic growth, and contested gender relations lie at the heart of these debates. The future consequences of the crisis depend upon whether there is a deepening of democratic institutions, including in the European Union. Sylvia Walby offers an alternative framework within which to theorize crisis, drawing on complexity science and situating this within the wider field of study of risk, disaster and catastrophe. In doing so, she offers a critique and revision of the social science needed to understand the crisis.
Author : Myrto Tsilimpounidi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317557093
The global financial crisis has demonstrated the impact and implications of late capitalism and its bedfellow, globalisation. In the European context, crisis is seen as a threat to the stability of the region, rather than a local or national concern. Post-2008, crisis is social and political, rather than merely financial, as Western countries witness the consequences of consumption, growth and profit. In this book, Tsilimpounidi demonstrates how sociologists must develop new approaches to examining rapid shifts in the social landscape, since crisis is not merely reflected in balance sheets, but is mediated through spectacular imagery of loss, deprivation and increased vectors of marginalisation. Providing focused and valuable insight into the pressing problems of those living in Greece in relation to the wider spheres of the nation and at the level of the European Union, Sociology of Crisis takes an approach that is firmly located within a critical sociological appeal to reflexivity. A timely engagement with the problem of crisis at a macro-level and in dialogue with the everyday experiences of crisis on a micro-level, this interdisciplinary title will appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in sociology, social policy, geography, urban studies and research methods (social science).
Author : Alvin Ward Gouldner
Publisher : London : Allen Lane
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Alvin Ward Gouldner
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Greece
ISBN :
Author : Hartmut Rosa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509519920
The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.” The quality of a human life cannot be measured simply in terms of resources, options, and moments of happiness; instead, we must consider our relationship to, or resonance with, the world. Applying his theory of resonance to many domains of human activity, Rosa describes the full spectrum of ways in which we establish our relationship to the world, from the act of breathing to the adoption of culturally distinct worldviews. He then turns to the realms of concrete experience and action – family and politics, work and sports, religion and art – in which we as late modern subjects seek out resonance. This task is proving ever more difficult as modernity’s logic of escalation is both cause and consequence of a distorted relationship to the world, at individual and collective levels. As Rosa shows, all the great crises of modern society – the environmental crisis, the crisis of democracy, the psychological crisis – can also be understood and analyzed in terms of resonance and our broken relationship to the world around us. Building on his now classic work on acceleration, Rosa’s new book is a major new contribution to the theory of modernity, showing how our problematic relation to the world is at the crux of some of the most pressing issues we face today. This bold renewal of critical theory for our times will be of great interest to students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities.
Author : José Itzigsohn
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479804177
The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientists The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pioneer of American scientific sociology and as someone who made foundational contributions to the sociology of race and to urban and community sociology. However, in this authoritative volume, noted scholars José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown provide a groundbreaking account of Du Bois’s theoretical contribution to sociology, or what they call the analysis of “racialized modernity.” Further, they examine the implications of developing a Du Boisian sociology for the practice of the discipline today. The full canon of Du Bois’s sociological works spans a lifetime of over ninety years in which his ideas evolved over much of the twentieth century. This broader and more systematic account of Du Bois’s contribution to sociology explores how his theories changed, evolved, and even developed to contradict earlier ideas. Careful parsing of seminal works provides a much needed overview for students and scholars looking to gain a better grasp of the ideas of Du Bois, in particular his understanding of racialized subjectivity, racialized social systems, and his scientific sociology. Further, the authors show that a Du Boisian sociology provides a robust analytical framework for the multilevel examination of individual-level processes—such as the formation of the self—and macro processes—such as group formation and mobilization or the structures of modernity—key concepts for a basic understanding of sociology.