Ideological Dilemmas

Author : Michael Billig
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015014158268

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A major contribution to the social scientific understanding of how people make sense of their lives, Ideological Dilemmas presents an illuminating new approach to the study of everyday thinking. Contradictory strands abound within both ideology and common sense. In contrast to many modern theorists, the authors see these dilemmas of ideology as enabling, rather than inhibiting: thinking about them helps people to think meaningfully about themselves and the world. The dilemmas within ideology and their effects on thinking are explored through the analysis of what people say in specific key situations: education, medical care, race and gender. The authors identify common ideological themes running through the common-sense discourses they analyse. They highlight the tensions between themes of equality and authority, freedom and necessity, individuality and collectivity. Time and again, the contradictions between these ideological themes crop up as respondents argue and puzzle over their social worlds. Written with refreshing clarity, the discussion cuts across the boundary which often separates sociology from social psychology. Sociologists are reminded that the reproduction of ideology involves individual processes of thinking; social psychologists are urged to recognize the ideological nature of thought.

Author : Michael Billig
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ideology
ISBN : UCAL:B4953404

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Ideological Dilemmas by Michael Billig Pdf

A major contribution to the social scientific understanding of how people make sense of their lives, Ideological Dilemmas presents an illuminating new approach to the study of everyday thinking. Contradictory strands abound within both ideology and common sense. In contrast to many modern theorists, the authors see these dilemmas of ideology as enabling, rather than inhibiting: thinking about them helps people to think meaningfully about themselves and the world. The dilemmas within ideology and their effects on thinking are explored through the analysis of what people say in specific key situations: education, medical care, race and gender. The authors identify common ideological themes running through the common-sense discourses they analyse. They highlight the tensions between themes of equality and authority, freedom and necessity, individuality and collectivity. Time and again, the contradictions between these ideological themes crop up as respondents argue and puzzle over their social worlds. Written with refreshing clarity, the discussion cuts across the boundary which often separates sociology from social psychology. Sociologists are reminded that the reproduction of ideology involves individual processes of thinking; social psychologists are urged to recognize the ideological nature of thought.

Author : Michael Billig,Derek Edwards (psychologia),Mike Gane,David Middleton,Alan Radley,Susan Condor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ideology
ISBN : 0803980957

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Ideological Dilemmas by Michael Billig,Derek Edwards (psychologia),Mike Gane,David Middleton,Alan Radley,Susan Condor Pdf

Author : Mingjiang Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136455438

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Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet Split by Mingjiang Li Pdf

The Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s was one of the most significant events of the Cold War. Why did the Sino-Soviet alliance, hailed by its creators as "unbreakable", "eternal", and as representing "brotherly solidarity", break up? Why did their relations eventually evolve into open hostility and military confrontation? With the publication of several works on the subject in the past decade, we are now in a better position to understand and explain the origins of the Sino-Soviet split. But at the same time new questions and puzzles have also emerged. The scholarly debate on this issue is still fierce. This book, the result of extensive research on declassified documents at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, and on numerous other new Chinese materials, sheds new light on the problem and makes a significant contribution to the debate. More than simply an empirical case study, by theorising the concept of the ideological dilemma, Mingjiang Li’s book attempts to address the relationship between ideology and foreign policy and discusses such pressing questions as why it is that an ideology can sometimes effectively dictate foreign policy, whilst at other times exercises almost no significant influence at all. This book will be of essential reading to anyone interested in Chinese-Soviet history, Cold War history, International Relations and the theory of ideology.

Author : Sara Schatz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3369152

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Organizational and Ideological Dilemmas in the Search for Regime Legitimacy by Sara Schatz Pdf

Author : Brahm Norwich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134150885

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Dilemmas of Difference, Inclusion and Disability by Brahm Norwich Pdf

**Shortlisted for the nasen Special Educational Needs Academic Book award 2008** Inclusion has become very influential internationally in the field of schooling. This has involved the introduction of policies that pursue more provision for, and acceptance of, students with special educational needs or disabilities in ordinary school settings. However, these policies represent different and often conflicting values and approaches to education. The basic dilemma of difference is whether to recognise or not to recognise differences, as either way there are negative implications or risks associated with stigma, devaluation, rejection or denial of relevant opportunities. This is the first book to examine ideas about these dilemmas from a range of disciplines and fields about the nature and origins of such dilemmas as they apply to special and inclusive education. In particular these dilemmas are about: identification – whether to identify students as having special educational needs / disabilities or not? curriculum – how much of a common curriculum is relevant to these students? placement – can appropriate learning can take place in ordinary schools and classes or not? This ground-breaking book examines professional educators and administrators at national and local authority level across three countries – England, USA and the Netherlands – and questions how they recognise tensions or dilemmas in responding to student differences. Of interest to researchers, students, academics and professionals, this study will provide a much needed, balanced and powerful contribution to the inclusion debate.

Author : Tun-jen Cheng,Jacques Delisle,Deborah Brown
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812563477

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China Under Hu Jintao by Tun-jen Cheng,Jacques Delisle,Deborah Brown Pdf

The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects of a rapid and internationally-interdependent economy and a troubled and only partly reformed political system.This important book approaches the study of the PRC under Hu Jintao in a two-fold manner: by examining the new political parameters within which the party-state functions and by analyzing the prominent issues ? at home and abroad ? that are commanding the attention of China's new leaders. The book tackles a comprehensive range of topics, including elites, institutions and state-society relations, politics and the political implications of economic change, domestic politics and foreign relations.

Author : Brahm Norwich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136309786

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Addressing Tensions and Dilemmas in Inclusive Education by Brahm Norwich Pdf

Based on extensive research, Addressing Tensions and Dilemmas in Inclusive Education presents a contemporary and critical analysis of the interaction between different perspectives and positions in the field of inclusive education. Referring to existing attitudes on the education of children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities, Professor Norwich argues that despite the appeal of inclusion as a single powerful position, its practical realisation involves tensions and dilemmas that have to be addressed and resolved. This core analysis is illustrated by a review of relevant national and international concepts, principles, research and practices drawing on literature in areas of current interest and concern, such as: identification and classification; current national and international conceptions; pedagogic and curriculum issues; organisation of schooling; parental and student perspectives; the contribution of research to policy and practice. Engaging with the fundamental issues in the field and providing a coherent perspective that recognises and justifies the inter-connection between specialised and general school provision, this accessible and timely book will be of interest to all researchers and students of inclusive education.

Author : Rob Manwaring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429648793

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The Politics of Social Democracy by Rob Manwaring Pdf

This book addresses the meaning of contemporary social democracy and how the centre-left is navigating through its current identity crisis, through a series of cases of social democratic and labour parties across Europe and the Anglosphere. The book examines the ideological, policy, electoral and organisational dilemmas facing the centre-left. Taking in cases including those from the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia, and New Zealand, it outlines and explores the current and future trajectories of the family of centre-left parties. This text will be of key interest to students, scholars and interested readers of labour and social democratic politics, centre-left political parties, trade unions, the future of the centre-left, and more broadly to those studying political parties, European and comparative politics.

Author : Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315287157

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Dilemmas of Reform in China by Joseph Fewsmith Pdf

This is a comprehensive account of the Chinese debates on economic reforms, from the Third Plenum of 1978 to the crackdown of 1989. It is designed for scholars and graduate students interested in the political economy of China's reforms.

Author : Peter Clecak
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0060108193

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Radical Paradoxes; Dilemmas of the American Left: 1945-1970 by Peter Clecak Pdf

Author : Patrick F. Miller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004368118

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Dilemmas and Decisions by Patrick F. Miller Pdf

Dilemmas and Decisions distinguishes “problems”, which have rational solutions, from “dilemmas” which do not, aiming to prepare students for decisions required at work, rather than in TV quizzes. It argues that constantly seeking the “right answer” merely leads to extremism and totalitarian thinking.

Author : Charles D. Freilich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801465307

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Zion's Dilemmas by Charles D. Freilich Pdf

In Zion's Dilemmas, a former deputy national security adviser to the State of Israel details the history and, in many cases, the chronic inadequacies in the making of Israeli national security policy. Chuck Freilich identifies profound, ongoing problems that he ascribes to a series of factors: a hostile and highly volatile regional environment, Israel's proportional representation electoral system, and structural peculiarities of the Israeli government and bureaucracy.Freilich uses his insider understanding and substantial archival and interview research to describe how Israel has made strategic decisions and to present a first of its kind model of national security decision-making in Israel. He analyzes the major events of the last thirty years, from Camp David I to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, through Camp David II, the Gaza Disengagement Plan of 2005, and the second Lebanon war of 2006.In these and other cases he identifies opportunities forgone, failures that resulted from a flawed decision-making process, and the entanglement of Israeli leaders in an inconsistent, highly politicized, and sometimes improvisational planning process. The cabinet is dysfunctional and Israel does not have an effective statutory forum for its decision-making—most of which is thus conducted in informal settings. In many cases policy objectives and options are poorly formulated. For all these problems, however, the Israeli decision-making process does have some strengths, among them the ability to make rapid and flexible responses, generally pragmatic decision-making, effective planning within the defense establishment, and the skills and motivation of those involved. Freilich concludes with cogent and timely recommendations for reform.

Author : Rafaela M. Dancygier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691172606

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Dilemmas of Inclusion by Rafaela M. Dancygier Pdf

As Europe’s Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas. In vote-rich enclaves, Muslim views on religion, tradition, and gender roles can deviate sharply from those of the majority electorate, generating severe trade-offs for parties seeking to broaden their coalitions. Dilemmas of Inclusion explains when and why European political parties include Muslim candidates and voters, revealing that the ways in which parties recruit this new electorate can have lasting consequences. Drawing on original evidence from thousands of electoral contests in Austria, Belgium, Germany, and Great Britain, Rafaela Dancygier sheds new light on when minority recruitment will match up with existing party positions and uphold electoral alignments and when it will undermine party brands and shake up party systems. She demonstrates that when parties are seduced by the quick delivery of ethno-religious bloc votes, they undercut their ideological coherence, fail to establish programmatic linkages with Muslim voters, and miss their opportunity to build cross-ethnic, class-based coalitions. Dancygier highlights how the politics of minority inclusion can become a testing ground for parties, showing just how far their commitments to equality and diversity will take them when push comes to electoral shove. Providing a unified theoretical framework for understanding the causes and consequences of minority political incorporation, and especially as these pertain to European Muslim populations, Dilemmas of Inclusion advances our knowledge about how ethnic and religious diversity reshapes domestic politics in today’s democracies.

Author : Andrew James Nathan,Zhaohui Hong,Steven Smith
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : China
ISBN : 1555878512

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Dilemmas of Reform in Jiang Zemin's China by Andrew James Nathan,Zhaohui Hong,Steven Smith Pdf

As China enters a stage of economic reform more challenging and risky than any that has gone before, the pressure of political liberalization grows apace. This volume explores the dilemmas of this phase of complex change.