Class Formation Civil Society And The State

Author : Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : 45,8 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 : S. M. Shamsul Alam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
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 : M. Neocleous
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230379978

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Administering Civil Society by M. Neocleous Pdf

To preserve social order the state must administer civil society, with a threefold purpose - the fashioning of the market, the constitution of legal subjectivity and the subsumption of struggle. In Administering Civil Society Mark Neocleous offers a rethinking of the state-civil society distinction through the idea of political administration. This is achieved through an original reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and an insightful critique of Foucault's account of power and administration. The outcome is a highly provocative theory of state power.

Author : Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000022278638

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Class and Civil Society by Jean L. Cohen Pdf

Author : Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Boudien de Vries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Philip Oxhorn
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271048949

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Sustaining Civil Society by Philip Oxhorn Pdf

"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Adebayo Ninalowo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civil society
ISBN : UOM:39015057616438

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Essays on the State and Civil Society by Adebayo Ninalowo Pdf

Author : John Urry
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037634057

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The Anatomy of Capitalist Societies by John Urry Pdf

Mostly discussed in terms of contributions from Marxist writing and debate.

Author : Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Adam Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : David Sciulli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047440666

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Professions in Civil Society and the State by David Sciulli Pdf

The sociology of professions has come full circle, leaving behind Parsons, his critics, and two generations of received wisdom. David Sciulli demonstrates compellingly that the sociology of professions advances the comparative study of civil society, democracy and rule of law.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004462267

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State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism by Anonim Pdf

This volume addresses the ‘impoverishment of state theory’ over the last decades and insists on the continued salience of class analysis to the study of capitalist states – neoliberal restructuring, the political architecture of imperialism, and the potentials for democratic transformation.

Author : Nigel Thrift,Peter Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.