Mass Society Pluralism And Bureaucracy

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110308132

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Mass Society, Pluralism, and Bureaucracy by Richard F. Hamilton Pdf

Three major social theories--mass society, pluralism, and bureaucracy--are often employed to interpret and explain modern societies. Although frequently invoked, the theories themselves are poorly understood. This book seeks to clarify the background, context, and major arguments of the theories, assess the claims and validity of each, provide expert commentary, and suggest avenues for further work in each area. Drawing on work in the humanities, history, sociology, economic history, and political science, Hamilton is able to provide readers with a clear, concise, and accurate overview of the adequacy of these theories as well as their empirical validity. Beginning with the mass society theory, Hamilton offers a systematic empirical assessment of its major tenets and its abundant shortcomings. While the validity of the mass society theory does not hold up, there is more support for pluralism, and Hamilton adeptly assesses its arguments while suggesting a more realistic and partitive reading of the theory. And while the image of an all-pervasive and growing bureaucracy seems to overwhelm society, Hamilton argues that the theory seriously misrepresents the character of modern life. Working through each of these theories using an integrated approach, the author concludes each assessment with suggestions for which elements of the theory should be retained, which should be reworked, and which should be discarded altogether.

Author : Joseph Bensman, Bernard Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mass, Class, and Buraucracy: The Evolution of Contemporary Society by Joseph Bensman, Bernard Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Kenneth Eugene Pigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013838093

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Class, Mass, and Bureaucracy in Community Politics by Kenneth Eugene Pigg Pdf

Author : William Kornhauser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351476942

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The Politics of Mass Society by William Kornhauser Pdf

The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale society to totalitarian systems. Mass movements mobilize people who are alienated from the social system, who do not believe in the legitimacy of the established order, and who are therefore ready to engage in efforts to destroy. Contrary to the psychological approach prevalent in European doctrines of mass movements, Kornhauser persuasively argues that social order is the critical factor. The greatest number of people available to mass movements are located in those segments of society that have the fewest ties to social order. The book draws on a wide range of materials--from classical political theory contemporary sociological analysis, historical and intuitional studies, public opinion surveys, and other published and unpublished data. Kornhauser selected political phenomena in organizations, communities, classes, and whole societies. He examined support for communism and fascism in a variety of countries in relation to rates of urbanization and industrialization, employment, and suicide and homicide among other phenomena. In his new introduction, Irving Louis Horowitz identifies Kornhauser's book as a seminal work of the great tradition in political sociology in the mid-twentieth century. Kornhauser points out that modern democratic systems possess a distinct vulnerability to mass movements. He spells out and identifies factors that tend to increase or decrease this vulnerability--not least the health and strength of elites. In this way, the book reveals new clues to the origins and nature of mass political movements. The Politics of Mass Society remains the most complete analytical account of the sociological approach to mass society in advanced industrial societies.

Author : Kenneth Alan Osgood
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015063223773

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Total Cold War by Kenneth Alan Osgood Pdf

Osgood focuses on major campaigns such as Atoms for Peace, People-to-People, and cultural exchange programs. Drawing on recently declassified documents that record U.S. psychological operations in some three dozen countries, he tells how U.S. propaganda agencies presented everyday life in America to the world: its citizens living full, happy lives in a classless society where economic bounty was shared by all. Osgood further investigates the ways in which superpower disarmament negotiations were used as propaganda maneuvers in the battle for international public opinion. He also reexamines the early years of the space race, focusing especially on the challenge to American propagandists posed by the Soviet launch of Sputnik.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351496957

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President McKinley, War and Empire by Richard F. Hamilton Pdf

The "progressive" reading of history focuses on two major antecedents for the origins of the United States' 1898 war with Spain: the 1896 presidential election and the Hearst-Pulitzer press war that, reportedly, generated an irresistible clamor from an "aroused public." Underlying those narratives are two very different theoretical frameworks: a class-dominance view and that of the mass society. Volume 1 of President McKinley, War and Empire assesses the adequacy of those readings.In the 1896 election the Republicans, led by William McKinley, were challenged by William Jennings Bryan, a radical and an inflationist, who had defeated the conservative leaders of the Democratic Party. The Bryanites portrayed the 1896 election as a struggle between "Wall Street" and "the people." McKinley was portrayed as a docile, pliable figure whose campaign was directed by an adept Ohio business magnate, Mark Hanna. The McKinley victory meant that "big business" was now "in control."The Cuban insurgency, begun in 1895, gained attention and support from the American newspapers. This began with a circulation war in New York City, with Hearst and Pulitzer publishing "sensational" reports about the struggle in Cuba. The resulting public clamor, it is said, overwhelmed the members of the legislative and executive branches. McKinley and his advisors fended off those demands as best they could but, following the sinking of the Maine, he conceded and asked Congress to authorize intervention.This work provides an original assessment of those long-standing claims, the basic elements of the progressive history. It reviews McKinley's biography, principally the events leading up to his election victory, including discussion of Hanna's role. It then examines the events leading up to the war. Studies of press content are reviewed and new material is introduced. The work also argues that two other factors were decisive: the efforts of an adept Cuban pressure group and partisa

Author : Larry Lyon,Robyn Driskell
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478609414

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The Community in Urban Society by Larry Lyon,Robyn Driskell Pdf

The community is more than an abstract object of theoretical inquiry. It is also a place where people live. It is difficult to determine where community research and theory merge, because the community is a unique place where theory and the real world come together. Local conditions change and new research techniques emerge. In the second edition of The Community in Urban Society, the authors solve this problem by distilling the historic and foundational theories of community, applying traditional approaches (typology, ecology, systems theory, and conflict theory) to current conditions, and exploring new and relevant theories that impact todays communities. The latest edition also examines recent and emerging technologies that facilitate examination and evaluation of the modern community condition. Updated coverage includes topics such as New Urbanism, modern network analysis methods, the urban political economy approach to community, the growth machine approach, GIS mapping, recent holistic studies, cyberspace communities, and up-to-date discussions of community indicator studies, quality of life, community power, and regime politics.

Author : James Michael MacFarlane
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030400903

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Transhumanism as a New Social Movement by James Michael MacFarlane Pdf

This book explores Technological Human Enhancement Advocacy through ethnographically inspired participant observation across a range of sites. James Michael MacFarlane argues that such advocacy is characterized by ‘Techno-centrism,' a belief grounded in today’s world while being also future-oriented and drawn from the imagination. This blurring of ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ futures borrows from the materialist grounding of the scientific worldview, while granting extended license to visions for technology as an enabler of forward-facing action, which include reviving humanist ideals associated with the modernization project. While Techno-centrism is arguably most pronounced in transhumanism—where it is acted-out in extreme, almost hyperbolic ways—it reflects more generally held, deep-seeded concerns around the future of science, technology and human self-identity in the new millennium. Far from being new, these emerging social forms capture unresolved ambivalences which have long cast a shadow over late-modern society and culture.

Author : R. D. Grillo
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522239

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Pluralism and the Politics of Difference by R. D. Grillo Pdf

Is a plural, polyethnic, democratic society possible? Starting with Ernest Gellner's observation that `culturally plural societies worked well in the past', but `genuine cultural pluralism ceases to be viable under current conditions', this study explores pluralism in three settings; early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary `postmodern' world. Through a nuanced discussion ranging from pre-colonial Africa and Mesoamerica, to European and American experiences in the twentieth century, Grillo explores the ways in which different social and political forms cope with ethnic and cultural diversity. The study uncovers a range of different kinds of pluralism, from out-and-out separatism, through varieties of multiculturalism, to looser forms of `hybridity'. Rather than advocating one configuration over another, this important new book outlines the range of choices facing our societies as, moving into the twenty-first century, we try to reconcile the competing demands of universalism and difference.

Author : Mohammad Ali Sarlak
Publisher : NAISIT Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780986533501

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The New Faces of Organizations in the 21st Century by Mohammad Ali Sarlak Pdf

Author : Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521817358

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The Origins of World War I by Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig Pdf

Discusses and examines the possible causes of World War I.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351532174

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America's New Empire by Richard F. Hamilton Pdf

In this volume, Hamilton deals with some of the antecedents and the outcome of the Spanish-American war, specifically, the acquisition of an American empire. It critiques the "progressive" view of those events, questioning the notion that businessmen (and compliant politicians) aggressively sought new markets, particularly those of Asia. Hamilton shows that United States' exports continued to go, predominantly, to the major European nations. The progressive tradition has focused on empire, specifically on the Philippines depicted as a stepping stone to the China market. Hamilton shows that the Asian market remained minuscule in the following decades, and that other historical works have neglected the most important change in the nation's trade pattern, the growth of the Canada market, which two decades after the 1898 war, became the United States' largest foreign market.The book begins with a review and criticism of the basic assumptions of the progressive framework. These are, first, that the nation is ruled by big business (political leaders being compliant co-workers). Second, that those businessmen are zealous profit seekers. And third, that they are well-informed rational decision-makers. A further underlying assumption is that the economy was not functioning well in the 1890s and that a need for new markets was recognized as an urgent necessity, so that big business, accordingly, demanded world power and empire. Each of these assumptions, pivotal elements in the dominant progressive tradition in historical writing, is challenged, with an alternative viewpoint presented.Hamilton presents a different, more complex view of the events following the Spanish-American War. The class-dominance theory is not supported. The alternative argued here, elitism, proves appropriate and more useful. This review and assessment of arguments about American expansion in the 1890s adds much to the literature of the period.

Author : Remo Siza
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447360001

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The Welfare of the Middle Class by Remo Siza Pdf

In many European countries, processes of individualisation have contributed to transforming the middle class into a multitude of people, a sort of ‘middle mass’ with an unstable social identity and radical activism. The different ‘worlds’ of European welfare states seem progressively less able to manage this new kind of middle-class activism. This book is an essential contribution to ongoing public and academic debates on the unpredictability of middle-class attitudes and on their changing relations with the welfare state. Identifying key trends in the literature, it considers the impact of recent welfare reforms on the needs and preferences of the middle class.

Author : Michael Haas
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498556699

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Political Science Revitalized by Michael Haas Pdf

Political science has been described as a jigsaw puzzle with many specializations and subfields that do not talk to one another. This book offers a solution that will advance the field from mid-level theory to engage in cross-fertilization through metatheoretical paradigms. The book begins with a history of political science from the nineteenth century to the present, followed by a paradigmatic history of political science including 6 metatheories in the pre-behavioral era, 12 in the behavioral era, and the 4 major and several minor paradigms being developed today. The book advances the goal of David Easton by proposing a neobehavioral political science including multimethodological innovations, cross-testing of paradigms, and tenets of a new political science that can rise to become a truly theoretical science. Each paradigm is diagramed to demonstrate the key concepts and their causal interconnections. Political Science Revitalized: Filling the Jigsaw Puzzle with Paradigms poses an exciting and provocative argument for the future of the vast field of political science.

Author : Paul Du Gay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199275458

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The Values of Bureaucracy by Paul Du Gay Pdf

"This book describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures. It aims to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have a vital role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence"--Provided by publisher.