System Structure And Contradiction

Author : Jonathan Friedman
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585246598

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System, Structure, and Contradiction by Jonathan Friedman Pdf

The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally warring schools of thought, the author provided a more nuanced understanding of the various factors that drive social change and social complexity. Though viewed through the lens of an ethnographic and historical case study of the Kachin of Burman, Friedman's theory has had a major impact on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists, world-systems scholars, and Marxist theorists alike. This new edition of Friedman's much-cited work contains the full text of the original volume (never published in North America) along with two related articles by the author, and a comprehensive new introduction that brings his theoretical notions, and the debate over this book, to the present. A classic work of anthropological and social theory, it will be of interest to scholars and their advanced students in anthropology and related disciplines.

Author : Volker Meja,Dieter Misgeld,Nico Stehr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000708790

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Modern German Sociology by Volker Meja,Dieter Misgeld,Nico Stehr Pdf

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II. Included are sections from such out-standing figures as Theodor Adorno, Alexander Mitscherlich, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, and Ralf Darendorf. The editors have arranged the essays into five sections that express their view of the chief aspects of modern German sociology and have written a helpful introduction to each section.

Author : Nikolai Bukharin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136654350

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Historical Materialism by Nikolai Bukharin Pdf

First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin’s show trials, expands upon Karl Marx’s theory of historical materialism. Offering a Marxist interpretation of sociology, this reissue is important not only from a sociological and economic perspective, but is also extremely valuable as a socio-historical document of contemporary thought in the Soviet Union in the years following the Bolshevik revolution.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520039750

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Central Problems in Social Theory by Anthony Giddens Pdf

"One of the most creative among the younger generation of critical social theorists, Giddens stands alone in his concern for the classical tradition on sociology; but he also makes brilliant use of the latest philosophical and theoretical work of several contemporary schools and disciplines. A very important book for all of social science."—Jeffrey C. Alexander

Author : Sarah Joseph
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political science
ISBN : 8175962038

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Political Theory and Power by Sarah Joseph Pdf

This book draws attention to certain significant changes in the way in which power has been defined and it also examines some of the critical responses which those changes have evoked. The objective is not to try and evolve a universally acceptable and comprehensive definition of power, and of realted terms like authority and influence. The argument of the book is that, that would be an impossible project since social and political theories themselves constitute an intervention into political discourse of a society and they may implicitly or explicitly embody a political perspective.

Author : Runhua Tan,Guozhong Cao,Noel Leon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642033452

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Growth and Development of Computer Aided Innovation by Runhua Tan,Guozhong Cao,Noel Leon Pdf

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 5.4. Working Conference on Computer Aided Innovation, CAI 2009, held in Harbin, China, in August 2009. The papers deal with advanced approaches in education and training; data mining; text mining; semantic Web; optimization and innovation, shape and topology generators; design automation; integration of CAI methods and tools into engineering; innovation process and engineering information pipeline; innovation in collaborative networks of enterprises; professional virtual communities as well as engineering design.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317808671

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The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) by Jeffrey C. Alexander Pdf

This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx’s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim’s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.

Author : Larry Nucci
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135616090

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Conflict, Contradiction, and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education by Larry Nucci Pdf

The premise of this book is that individuals and societies have an inexorable urge to morally develop by challenging the assumptions of the previous generation in terms of what is right and wrong. The focus is on the nature and functional value of conflicts and challenges to the dominant moral and social values framework. Through this analysis, individuals develop moral character through conflict with their local authority figures, including parents. The moral structure of societies evolves through intergenerational challenges to and contradictions with the dominant social order. The book is divided into three parts to help frame this discussion: *Part I directly takes up the issue of resistance as it occurs at a cultural level, and the implications of such resistance for moral education and socialization. *Part II explores the normative forms of adolescent resistance and contrarian behavior that vex parents and teachers alike. *Part III brings back the issue of societal structure and culture to illustrate how negative features of society--such as racial discrimination and economic disparity--can feed into the construction of negative moral identity in youth posing challenges to moral education. Taken together, this collection presents a rich counterpoint to the pictures of moral growth as the progressive sophistication of moral reasoning or the gradual accretion of moral virtues and cultural values. It will benefit those in developmental, social, and cognitive psychology, as well as sociology, political science, and education.

Author : Ralph Miliband
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCSC:32106020213002

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The Socialist Register by Ralph Miliband Pdf

Author : Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0919618820

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The City and Radical Social Change by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos Pdf

Author : Juergen Habermas
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0807015210

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Legitimation Crisis by Juergen Habermas Pdf

Critical Theory originated in the perception by a group of German Marxists after the First World War that the Marxist analysis of capitalism had become deficient both empirically and with regard to its consequences for emancipation, and much of their work has attempted to deepen and extend it in new circumstances. Yet much of this revision has been in the form of piecemeal modification. In his latest work, Habermas has returned to the study of capitalism, incorporating the distinctive modifications of the Frankfurt School into the foundations of the critique of capitalism. Drawing on both systems theory and phenomenological sociology as well as Marxism, the author distinguishes four levels of capitalist crisis - economic, rationality, legitimation, and motivational crises. In his analysis, all the Frankfurt focus on cultural, personality, and authority structures finds its place, but in a systematic framework. At the same time, in his sketch of communicative ethics as the highest stage in the internal logic of the evolution of ethical systems, the author hints at the source of a new political practice that incorporates the imperatives of evolutionary rationality.

Author : John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415639132

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The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture by John Shannon Hendrix Pdf

Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function is seen as a device for poetic expression, for the expression of ideas, in architecture. The book contributes to the project of re-establishing architecture as a humanistic discipline, to re-establish an emphasis on the expression of ideas, and on the ethical role of architecture to engage the intellect of the observer and to represent human identity.

Author : Maurice Godelier
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781844677900

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The Mental and the Material by Maurice Godelier Pdf

What is the specificity of the human race within nature? How is its history to be explained? What impact do material realities, natural and man-made, have on human beings? What role does thought, in all its dimensions, play in the production of social relations? How are the human sciences to be advanced today? These are among the crucial questions confronted by Godelier in this key book of contemporary social theory. Its point of departure lies in a fact and a hypothesis. The fact: in contrast to other social animals, human beings do not just live in society; they produce society in order to live. The hypothesis: because they have the unique capacity to appropriate and transform nature, they produce culture and create history. Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork and ranging over the most diverse ethnographic data, Godelier substantiates his case by attending to the analysis of both social relations of production and the production of social relations. In a sustained challenge to currently dominant schemas, he offers a series of highly original theses on the constitution, reproduction and transformation of societies, recasting the distinction between infrastructure and superstructures, illuminating the relations between economic determination and political/ideological dominance, and clarifying the character of ideology and its central role in the perpetuation of dominance and exploitation.

Author : Peter Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134875115

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Social Theory and the Urban Question by Peter Saunders Pdf

Social Theory and the Urban Question offers a guide to, and a critical evaluation of key themes in contemporary urban social theory, as well as a re-examination of more traditional approaches in the light of recent developments and criticism. Dr Saunders discusses current theoretical positions in the context of the work of Marx, Weber and Durkheim. He suggests that later writers have often misunderstood or ignored the arguments of these 'founding fathers' of the urban question. Dr Saunders uses his final chapter to apply the lessons learned from a review of their work in order to develop a new.

Author : Irvin Joseph Hunt (III.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3504082

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Whither Freedom by Irvin Joseph Hunt (III.) Pdf