Politics And Social Theory
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Author |
: Alexander Wendt |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1999-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107268432 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107268435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Theory of International Politics by : Alexander Wendt
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 |
: Brian Fay |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 107 |
Release |
: 2014-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317652281 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317652282 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) by : Brian Fay
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 |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2009-12-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781849506670 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1849506671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Power and Social Theory by : Diane E. Davis
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 |
: Craig Calhoun |
Publisher |
: Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1994-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 155786473X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781557864734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Theory and the Politics of Identity by : Craig Calhoun
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 |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2018-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787351226 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178735122X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Theory after the Internet by : Ralph Schroeder
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 |
: Aeron Davis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 215 |
Release |
: 2010-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136940286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136940286 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Communication and Social Theory by : Aeron Davis
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 |
: Juan Francisco Salazar |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2020-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350109582 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350109584 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thinking with Soils by : Juan Francisco Salazar
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.
Author |
: Roberto Mangabeira Unger |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2004-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1844675157 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781844675159 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Theory by : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Volume 2 of Politics, a work in constructive social theory.
Author |
: Lois McNay |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2014-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745681153 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745681158 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Misguided Search for the Political by : Lois McNay
There has been a lively debate amongst political theorists about whether certain liberal concepts of democracy are so idealized that they lack relevance to ‘real’ politics. Echoing these debates, Lois McNay examines in this book some theories of radical democracy and argues that they too tend to rely on troubling abstractions - or what she terms ‘socially weightless’ thinking. They often propose ideas of the political that are so far removed from the logic of everyday practice that, ultimately, their supposed emancipatory potential is thrown into question. Radical democrats frequently maintain that what distinguishes their ideas of the political from others is the fundamental concern with unmasking and challenging unrecognized forms of inequality and domination that distort everyday life. But this supposed attentiveness to power is undermined by the invocation of rarefied models of political action that treat agency as an unproblematic given and overlook certain features of the embodied experience of oppression. The tendency of radical democrats to define democratic agency in terms of dynamics of perpetual flux, mobility and agonism passes over too swiftly the way in which objective structures of oppression are often taken into the body as subjective dispositions, leaving individuals with the feeling that they are unable to do little more than endure a state of affairs beyond their control. Drawing on the work of Adorno, Bourdieu and Honneth, amongst others, McNay argues that in order to make good the critique of power, radical democratic theory should attend more closely to a phenomenology of negative social experience and what it can reveal about the social conditions necessary for effective political agency.
Author |
: Wolfgang J. Mommsen |
Publisher |
: Polity |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 1993-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 074561132X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745611327 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber by : Wolfgang J. Mommsen
Wolfgang J. Mommsen is one of the foremost Weberian scholars writing today. In this volume, a sequel to his monumental study Max Weber and German Politics , he provides succinct and incisive statements on current developments in the analysis of Weber's work. The book concentrates upon Weber's engagement with political issues and their influence over his more theoretical concepts. Mommsen offers a critical analysis of Weber's notion of democracy and provides a thorough assessment of Weber's views of socialism against the backcloth of German Social Democracy.