Class Formation And Civil Society

Author : Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429866999

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Class Formation and Civil Society by Patrick M. Boyle Pdf

First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.

Author : Michael Burrage
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230593367

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Class Formation, Civil Society and the State by Michael Burrage Pdf

Rather than a ranking system based on occupational prestige, this book explains social stratification through political events and decisions. Using analyses of Russia, France, the United States and England, Burrage claims that class stems from the habitual relationship between state and civil society and, remarkably, is undermined by free markets.

Author : Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000022278638

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Class and Civil Society by Jean L. Cohen Pdf

Author : S. M. Shamsul Alam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : UOM:39015037287011

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The State, Class Formation, and Development in Bangladesh by S. M. Shamsul Alam Pdf

This book studies postcolonial Bangladesh and shows how the state failed to create an industrial bourgeoisie class. The author explores concepts of the postcolonial state, colonialism during the British period, postcolonial Bangladesh under various regimes, the influences of democracy, and alternatives through which Bangladesh may become a civil society. This highly analytical and interpretive study offers a 'solution' to the problem by calling for a participatory development and abandoning the idea of modernity. A table of contents and a list of abbreviations make this book an especially thorough and pragmatic reference tool.

Author : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Civil society
ISBN : OXFORD:590358119

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An Essay on the History of Civil Society by Adam Ferguson Pdf

Author : Boudien de Vries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351951104

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Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places by Boudien de Vries Pdf

In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes. The result of this is the assertion that the more associations existing in a particular society, the deeper democracy becomes entrenched. In order to test this hypothesis, this volume brings together essays by an international group of urban historians who examine the construction of civil society from associational activity in the urban place. From their studies, it soon becomes clear that such simple propositions do not adequately reflect the dynamics of nineteenth-century urban society and politics. Urban associations were ideological in purpose and deliberately discriminatory and as such set the boundaries of civil society. Thus competing and segmented associations were not only an indication of pluralism and strength, but also highlighted a fundamental weakness when faced down by the interests of the state. Through a wide array of urban associations in a broad range of settings, comprising Austria and Bratislava, France and Italy, the Netherlands, Austro-Hungary, England, Scotland and the US, this volume reflects on the construction of class, nation and culture in the associations of the nineteenth-century urban place. In so doing it shows that a deep and interlocking civil society does not automatically lead to a rise in democratic activity. Expansion of the networks of urban association could equally result in greater subdivision and to the fragmentation and isolation of certain groups. Partition as much as coherence is our understanding of civil society and associations in the nineteenth-century urban place.

Author : Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429867002

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Class Formation and Civil Society by Patrick M. Boyle Pdf

First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.

Author : Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134717101

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Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals) by Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow Pdf

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.

Author : Nancy Gina Bermeo,Philip G. Nord
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0847695506

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Civil Society Before Democracy by Nancy Gina Bermeo,Philip G. Nord Pdf

Bringing together historians and political scientists, this unique collaboration compares nineteenth-century civil societies that failed to develop lasting democracies with civil societies that succeeded.

Author : Leo Panitch,Gregory Albo
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1552666891

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Transforming Classes by Leo Panitch,Gregory Albo Pdf

For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in London in 1964, SR continues their commitment to independent and thought-provoking analysis, free of dogma or sectarian positions. Transforming Classes is a compendium of socialist thought today and a clarifying account of class struggle in the early twenty-first-century, from China to the United States.

Author : Göran Therborn
Publisher : New Left Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106001002010

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Science, Class, and Society by Göran Therborn Pdf

Author : Eva-Lotta Hedman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824845469

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In the Name of Civil Society by Eva-Lotta Hedman Pdf

"In the Name of Civil Society examines Philippine politics in a highly original and provocative way. Hedman’s detailed analysis shows how dominant elites in the Philippines shore up the structures of liberal democracy in order to ensure their continued hegemony over Philippine society. This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with civil society and the processes of democratization and democracy in capitalist societies." —Paul D. Hutchcroft, University of Wisconsin, Madison What is the politics of civil society? Focusing on the Philippines—home to the mother of all election-watch movements, the original People Power revolt, and one of the largest and most diverse NGO populations in the world—Eva-Lotta Hedman offers a critique that goes against the grain of much other current scholarship. Her highly original work challenges celebratory and universalist accounts that tend to reify "civil society" as a unified and coherent entity, and to ascribe a single meaning and automatic trajectory to its role in democratization. She shows how mobilization in the name of civil society is contingent on the intercession of citizens and performative displays of citizenship—as opposed to other appeals and articulations of identity, such as class. In short, Hedman argues, the very definitions of "civil" and "society" are at stake. Based on extensive research spanning the course of a decade (1991–2001), this study offers a powerful analysis of Philippine politics and society inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci. It draws on a rich collection of sources from archives, interviews, newspapers, and participant-observation. It identifies a cycle of recurring "crises of authority," involving mounting threats—from above and below—to oligarchical democracy in the Philippines. Tracing the trajectory of Gramscian "dominant bloc" of social forces, Hedman shows how each such crisis in the Philippines promotes a countermobilization by the "intellectuals" of the dominant bloc: the capitalist class, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. government. In documenting the capacity of so-called "secondary associations" (business, lay, professional) to project moral and intellectual leadership in each of these crises, this study sheds new light on the forces and dynamics of change and continuity in Philippine politics and society.

Author : Jason Struna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317615088

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Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation by Jason Struna Pdf

The global capitalism perspective is a unique research program focused on understanding relatively recent developments in worldwide social, economic, and political practices related to globalization. At its core, it seeks to contextualize the rearticulation of nation-states and broad geographic regions into highly interdependent networks of production and distribution, and in so doing explain consequent changes in social relations within and between countries in the contemporary era. The present volume contributes to this effort by focusing on social class formation across borders via the processes and actors that make globalized capitalism possible. The essays presented here offer a wide range of emphases in terms of the particular lenses and evidence they use. They cover such topics as the emergence of a transnational capitalist class-based fascist regime responding to the structural crises of global capitalism as well as the links between global class formation and the US racial project as it relates to electoral politics and demographic changes in the US South. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : Nigel Thrift,Peter Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317652076

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Class and Space (RLE Social Theory) by Nigel Thrift,Peter Williams Pdf

This book is abut the place of space in the study of class formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different aspects of the human geography of class formation at different points in the history of Britain and the United States over the course of the last 200 years. The book shows that the geography of class formation is a valuable and cross-disciplinary tool in the study of modern societies, integrating the work of human geographers with that of social historians, sociologists, social anthropologists and other social scientists in an enterprise which emphasises the essential unity of social science.

Author : Alison van Rooy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134068135

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Civil Society and the Aid Industry by Alison van Rooy Pdf

Northern governments and NGOs are increasingly convinced that civil society will enable people in developing countries to escape the poverty trap. Civil Society and the Aid Industry, the product of extensive research by the prestigious North-South Institute in Canada, makes a critical appraisal of this new emphasis in the aid industry. It explores the roles of Northern governmental, multilateral and non-governmental agencies in supporting civil society, presenting in-depth case studies of projects in Peru, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Hungary, and gives detailed policy recommendations intended to improve the effectiveness and appropriateness of future projects.