Politics And Social Theory

Author : Alexander Wendt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107268432

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Social Theory of International Politics by Alexander Wendt Pdf

Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He builds a cultural theory of international politics, which takes whether states view each other as enemies, rivals or friends as a fundamental determinant. Wendt characterises these roles as 'cultures of anarchy', described as Hobbesian, Lockean and Kantian respectively. These cultures are shared ideas which help shape state interests and capabilities, and generate tendencies in the international system. The book describes four factors which can drive structural change from one culture to another - interdependence, common fate, homogenization, and self-restraint - and examines the effects of capitalism and democracy in the emergence of a Kantian culture in the West.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666563

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Politics, Sociology and Social Theory by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Built upon a series of critical encounters with major figures in classical and present-day social and political thought, this volume offers not only a challenging critique of major traditions of social and political analysis, but unique insights into the ideas which Giddens has developed over the past two decades.

Author : Brian Fay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317652281

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Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) by Brian Fay Pdf

This book examines the question of how our knowledge of social life affects, and ought to affect, our way of living it. In so doing, it critically discusses two epistemological models of social science – the positivist and the interpretive – from the viewpoint of the political theories which, it is argued, are implicit in these models; moreover, it proposes a third model – the critical – which is organised around an explicit account of the relation between social theory and practical life. The book has the special merit of being a good overview of the principal current ideas about the relation between social theory and political practice, as well as an attempt at providing a new and more satisfactory account of this relationship. To accomplish this task, it synthesises work from the analytic philosophy of social science with that of the neo-Marxism of the Frankfurt school.

Author : Diane E. Davis,Julian Go
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849506670

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Political Power and Social Theory by Diane E. Davis,Julian Go Pdf

It is time to consider changes in the field of comparative-historical sociology, as the discipline seeks to accommodate old and new trends as well as the transforming spatial scales in which political power and social theory are increasingly embedded. This title showcases articles that pursue similar themes.

Author : Will Leggett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137609021

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Politics and Social Theory by Will Leggett Pdf

Under present social conditions, neither social theorists nor political scientists can afford to ignore one another. This book is a clear, structured account of the relationship between politics and social theory, examining both the political content of social theory, and how social theory has illuminated our understanding of politics.

Author : Aeron Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136940286

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Political Communication and Social Theory by Aeron Davis Pdf

Suitable for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies, this book challenges the traditional scholarship on various issues such as: comparative political and media systems; theories of democracy, representation and the public sphere; and, political party communication, marketing and elections.

Author : Russell Keat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : 0631127550

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The Politics of Social Theory by Russell Keat Pdf

Author : Will Leggett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350363707

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Politics and Social Theory by Will Leggett Pdf

"Under present social conditions, neither social theorists nor political scientists can afford to ignore one another. This book is a clear, structured account of the relationship between politics and social theory, examining both the political content of social theory, and how social theory has illuminated our understanding of politics."--

Author : Craig Calhoun
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 155786473X

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Social Theory and the Politics of Identity by Craig Calhoun Pdf

New social movements of the post-war era have brought to prominence the idea that identity can be a crucial focus for political struggle. Linked to an increasing recognition that social theory itself must put the politics of identity on center stage, this volume impels social theorists not only to make sense of the "world out there", but also to make sense of differences within the discourse of theory.

Author : Ralph Schroeder
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787351240

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Social Theory after the Internet by Ralph Schroeder Pdf

The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.

Author : Peter Lassman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136658976

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Politics and Social Theory by Peter Lassman Pdf

First published in 1989, this Routledge Revival is a major collection of essays on the competing traditions of social and political theory. The contributions, by international scholars, reflect the re-examination of the boundaries between the ‘political’ and the ‘social’, the ‘public’ and ‘private’, and ‘state’ and ‘society’. The reissue will be of great value to students in both sociology and political science. Bringing new arguments to bear on the debate about the place of political theory in social science, the contributors discuss such issues as the different languages used by sociologists to describe the state; Marxist and socialist theory; class analysis; the welfare state; feminist political theory; and the impact of post-modernity on contemporary social thought.

Author : Helmut Dubiel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262040808

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Theory and Politics by Helmut Dubiel Pdf

This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research yields fascinating insights into the actual workings of the Institute and the relationships among its members. The book has already had a major impact in Germany, where it has opened up the subject for argument and analysis by a new generation of scholars.Theory and Politics first explores the effect of political experience on the process of theory construction from 1930 to 1945. The central figure in this examination is Max Horkheimer, whose work is seen as the key to the shift in the Frankfurt School's focus from materialism to Critical Theory to a "critique of instrumental reason." Within each of the three periods defined by these foci the author examines external historical-political events (including the School's emigration to America) and their reflection in the group's changing conception of the relation of theory to practice as well as in its detailed theoretical position. Along the way he helps to clarify such questions as the Schools's evolving attitudes toward the Soviet Union, fascism, science, and the desired utopia.The book then examines what may have been the strongest stage of Critical Theory - the program for interdisciplinary research that emerged in the early 1930s. The author acutely portrays Horkheimer's conception of a synthesis between philosophy and empirical social science that would result in a form of social research relevant to the central problems of the day.As Martin Jay notes in his foreword, Helmut Dubiel has become not only an analyst of Critical Theory but a gifted contributor to its ongoing reception and development. He is currently a research fellow at the University of Frankfurt. Theory and Politics is included in the series, Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789609813

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Politics, Volume 2 - Social Theory by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Pdf

Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task is an introduction both to Unger's ideas and to the major debates of contemporary social, political and economic thought. Unger shows how the failures of social science and the criticism of such ambitious, deterministic theories as Marxism offer materials for an alternative practice of social understanding. This alternative severs, once and for all, the link between the explanation of social arrangements and the vindication of their necessity. Unger argues that the disappointment of so many liberal and socialist hopes coexists with unforeseen opportunities to advance progressive commitments. To seize such opportunities, however, we must rethink many of our basic beliefs about society about what it is and what it can become. Social Theory: Its Situation and Its Task shows that what at first seems a circumstance of intellectual and political paralysis turns out to be rich in unrecognized transformative possibility.

Author : Gerard Delanty,Stephen P. Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135997946

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Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory by Gerard Delanty,Stephen P. Turner Pdf

The Handbook will address a range of issues that have emerged out of recent social and political theory. It will focus on key themes as opposed to schools of thought or major theorists. Each chapter is an emerging, cutting edge topic that is of interest both to social theory and to political theory. Most topics will have a clear and substantive focus on social or political problems.

Author : Juan Francisco Salazar,Céline Granjou,Matthew Kearnes,Anna Krzywoszynska,Manuel Tironi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350109582

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Thinking with Soils by Juan Francisco Salazar,Céline Granjou,Matthew Kearnes,Anna Krzywoszynska,Manuel Tironi Pdf

This book presents a novel and systematic social theory of soil, and is representative of the rising interest in 'the material' in social sciences. Bringing together new modes of 'critical description' with speculative practices and methods of inquiry, it contributes to the exploration of current transformations in socioecologies, as well as in political and artistic practices, in order to address global ecological change. The chapters in this edited volume challenge scholars to attend more carefully to the ways in which they think about soil, both materially and theoretically. Contributors address a range of topics, including new ways of thinking about the politics of caring for soils; the ecological and symbiotic relations between soils; how the productive capacities and contested governance of soils are deployed as matters of political concern; and indigenous ways of knowing and being with soil.