The Blackwell Dictionary Of Modern Social Thought

Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470999011

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The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought by William Outhwaite Pdf

Modern social thought ranges widely from the social sciences to philosophy, political theories and doctrines, cultural ideas and movements, and the influence of the natural sciences. Provides an authoritative overview of the main themes of social thought. Long essays and entries give full coverage to each topic. Covers major currents of thought, philosophical and cultural trends, and the individual social sciences from anthropology to welfare economics. New edition updates about 200 entries and includes new entries, suggestions for further reading, and a bibliography of all sources cited within the text.

Author : William Outhwaite,T. B. Bottomore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:466105146

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The Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-century Social Thought by William Outhwaite,T. B. Bottomore Pdf

Author : Allan G. Johnson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631216812

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The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology by Allan G. Johnson Pdf

This new edition of Allan G. Johnson's one-volume sociology dictionary includes 75 new entries, as well as an expanded biographical section, extensive revisions and updates, and a more thorough cross-referencing. Written by a sociologist who is also an accomplished writer and teacher, it is aimed primarily at students, but will also be of use to professionals looking for an introduction to core concepts outside their area of expertise. Its combination of clear prose, engaging examples, a single author's voice, and its minimal assumptions about the average reader's prior knowledge of sociology and its related fields, makes this a unique and valuable reference work.

Author : William Outhwaite,Stephen Turner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446206454

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The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology by William Outhwaite,Stephen Turner Pdf

"An excellent guidebook through different approaches to social science measurement, including the all-important route-maps that show us how to get there." - Roger Jowell, City University "In this wide-ranging collection of chapters, written by acknowledged experts in their fields, Outhwaite and Turner have brought together material in one volume which will provide an extremely important platform for consideration of the full range of contemporary analytical and methodological issues." - Charles Crothers, Auckland University of Technology This is a jewel among methods Handbooks, bringing together a formidable collection of international contributors to comment on every aspect of the various central issues, complications and controversies in the core methodological traditions. It is designed to meet the needs of those disciplinary and nondisciplinary problem-oriented social inquirers for a comprehensive overview of the methodological literature. The text is divided into 7 sections: Overviews of methodological approaches in the social sciences Cases, comparisons and theory Quantification and experiment Rationality, complexity and collectivity Interpretation, critique and postmodernity Discourse construction Engagement. Edited by two leading figures in the field, the Handbook is a landmark work in the field of research methods. More than just a ′cookbook′ that teaches readers how to master techniques, it will give social scientists in all disciplines an appreciation for the full range of methodological debates today, from the quantitative to the qualitative, giving them deeper and sharpen insights into their own research questions. It will generate debate, solutions and a series of questions for researchers to exploit and develop in their research and teaching.

Author : Francesca Granelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788315746

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Trust, Politics and Revolution by Francesca Granelli Pdf

Tracing the relationships and networks of trust in Western European revolutionary situations from the Ancient Greeks to the French Revolution and beyond, Francesca Granelli here shows the essential role of trust in both revolution and government, arguing that without trust, both governments and revolutionary movements are liable to fail. The first study to combine the important of trust and the significance of revolution, this book offers a new lens through which to interpret revolution, in an essential work book for all scholars of political science and historians of revolution.

Author : Dileep Edara
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443889612

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Biography of a Blunder by Dileep Edara Pdf

Engaging with a critical analysis of the base and superstructure thesis, regarding which a surprising number of reputed Marxist thinkers betray a perpetual ambivalence – by frequently deploying it in a variety of contexts, but simultaneously airing various reservations about it – this book proposes a radical departure from the presently predominant understanding of it. The popular view of the base as comprising economics, and superstructure as encompassing almost all other spheres of social life, is criticised as “panoramic”, or “panoptic”, or the “extended” version, to which Marx’s rigorously defined base of production relations and superstructure of politico-legal spheres is juxtaposed. Revisiting Marx’s formulations in his famous 1859 Preface, described here as his purloined letters, the study rehabilitates his restricted version, and upholds its conceptual superiority over its extended avatar that is currently ubiquitous. The substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the widely believed extended version of the thesis is characterised here as a blunder, and this book traces the biography of this blunder, through the intricate and tortuous theoretical developments that traverse a transnational and multidisciplinary territory, constituting the history of Marxism. The last chapter argues for a paradigm shift, in favour of the mode of production thesis, in order to redeem the holistic vision of Marx. This shift is necessitated by the extenuation of the status of the base and superstructure thesis that results from the restoration of Marx’s restricted version. This chapter grapples with the issues involved in preparing the ground for that shift. It also contends that, although these theoretical shifts are never formulated in a conscious and conclusive manner – as is done here – the best practices in Marxist analyses are always inspired by the methodological implications of the mode of production thesis, and, for this reason, the thesis is claimed to be the “conceptual unconscious of Marxism”.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134181407

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Europe and Asia beyond East and West by Gerard Delanty Pdf

This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians - show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be questioned. Featuring four thematically organized chapters, the book looks at: a post-Western world Asia in Europe: encounters in history between Europe and Asia otherness in Europe and Asia. Exploring new expressions of European self-understanding in a way that challenges recent ideological notions of the ‘clash of civilizations’, this outstanding work draws on recent scholarship that shows how Europe and Asia were mutually linked in history and in contemporary perspective. It argues that as a result of current developments and the changing geopolitical context, both Europe and Asia have much in common and that it is possible to speak of cosmopolitan links rather than clashes. This book will be of great value to students and researchers in the fields of sociology, European politics and history and cultural theory.

Author : Daniele Besomi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136722899

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Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias by Daniele Besomi Pdf

This book aims at investigating from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycle. The project consists in giving an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong) in their context, giving some details on the author of the dictionary entry, and assessing the entry’s (and its author’s) contribution. The broad picture (including the history of these encyclopedic tools) will be examined in the introductory essays.

Author : Marcello Musto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134073818

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Karl Marx's Grundrisse by Marcello Musto Pdf

Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx‘s critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital. Despite its editorial vicissitudes and late publication, Grundrisse contains numerous reflections on matters that Marx did not develop elsewhere in his oeuvre and is therefore extremely im

Author : Raymond Paul Cuzzort,Edith W. King
Publisher : Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UCSC:32106000998648

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Humanity and Modern Social Thought by Raymond Paul Cuzzort,Edith W. King Pdf

Author : Dorothe Sommer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857739186

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Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire by Dorothe Sommer Pdf

The network of freemasons and Masonic lodges in the Middle East is an opaque and mysterious one, and is all too often seen – within the area – as a vanguard for Western purposes of regional domination. But here, Dorothe Sommer explains how freemasonry in Greater Syria at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century actually developed a life of its own, promoting local and regional identities. She stresses that during the rule of the Ottoman Empire, freemasonry was actually one of the first institutions in what is now Syria and Lebanon which overcame religious and sectarian divisions. Indeed, the lodges attracted more participants – such as the members of the Trad and Yaziji Family, Khaireddeen Abdulwahab, Hassan Bayhum, Alexander Barroudi and Jurji Yanni - than any other society or fraternity. Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire analyses the social and cultural structures of the Masonic network of lodges and their interconnections at a pivotal juncture in the history of the Ottoman Empire, making it invaluable for researchers of the history of the Middle East.

Author : T. R. Young,Bruce Arrigo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000315905

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The Dictionary Of Critical Social Sciences by T. R. Young,Bruce Arrigo Pdf

This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts.

Author : John Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191047558

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A Dictionary of Sociology by John Scott Pdf

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science. For this fourth edition, Professor John Scott has conducted a thorough review of all entries to ensure that they are concise, focused, and up to date. Revisions reflect current intellectual debates and social conditions, particularly in relation to global and multi-cultural issues. New entries cover relevant contemporary concepts, such as climate change, social media, terrorism, and intersectionality, as well as key living sociologists. This Dictionary is both an invaluable introduction to sociology for beginners, and an essential source of reference for more advanced students and teachers.

Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405153102

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The Future of Society by William Outhwaite Pdf

This important Manifesto argues that we still need a concept ofsociety in order to make sense of the forces which structure ourlives. Written by leading social theorist William Outhwaite Asks if the notion of society is relevant in the twenty-firstcentury Goes to the heart of contemporary social and politicaldebate Examines critiques of the concept of society from neoliberals,postmodernists, and globalization theorists

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470999905

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The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists by George Ritzer Pdf

The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists is a survey of contemporary social theory that focuses on the thinkers themselves. In original essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading experts and practitioners examine the life and work of 13 major theorists such as Elias, Baudrillard, Giddens, and Butler. Includes 13 original essays by leading scholars on major contemporary social theorists. Covers key figures such as Elias, Goffman, Foucault, Habermas, Giddens, Bourdieu, and Butler. Essays include biographical sketches, the social and intellectual context, and the impact of the thinker's work on social theory generally. Includes bibliographies of the theorist's most important works as well as key secondary works. Can be used in conjunction with The Blackwell Companion to Major Classical Social Theorists, edited by George Ritzer, for a complete reference source in social theory.