Author: Erville Bartlett WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Progress
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Progress as a Sociological Concept
Author: Erville Bartlett WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Progress
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Manifesto for Social Progress
Author: Marc FleurbaeyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424783
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Outlines how to rethink society's economic, political, and social institutions and actions to take to build better societies.
Theory and Progress in Social Science
Author: James B. RulePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521574945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This work, sequel to the author's Theories of Civil Violence, attacks questions that have long troubled social science and social scientists - questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry. Does the knowledge generated by the study of social, political, and economic life grow more comprehensive over time? These questions go to the heart of social scientists' soul-searching as to whether they are indeed engaged in 'science'. The author pursues these questions through in-depth examination of various theoretical programs currently influential in social science, including feminist social science, rational choice theory, network analysis and others.
Creating a Learning Society
Author: Joseph E. StiglitzPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231540620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
“A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader’s Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work’s central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text’s central thesis—that every policy affects learning—is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward. “Profound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge . . . This is social science at its best.”—Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge “An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning . . . This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications.”—Giovanni Dosi, director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna “[A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory.”—Harvard Business Review
Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy
Author: Donald G. ReidPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000609227
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Social Progress and the Authoritarian Challenge to Democracy examines the authoritarian challenge to present-day democracy through a framing of social progress theory and the idea of the social contract. Building on the author’s previous work, this book discusses whether social progress is linear and on a continual upward trajectory to human betterment, or if there are peaks and troughs along the way. More importantly, it questions that, if social progress exists, is it compatible with social and environmental sustainability? At the outset the book introduces the concepts of social contract theory and the idea of human social progress, long considered to be settled conditions, now ripe for further examination. Each chapter carefully analyses the contemporary struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, using examples from the USA as a foundation to discuss and compare democracies from around the world encountering the pressures of rising authoritarianism, including anti-immigration, xenophobia and anti-institutionalism. It argues that if the climate crisis is to be urgently addressed as required, the rise in authoritarian thinking, with its focus on maintaining power and the creation of individual wealth, presents a challenge to both our societal foundations and environmental sustainability. Highlighting and analysing topics of critical importance to today’s society, this book will have widespread appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology, political science, philosophy, environmental sustainability and development studies.
Trauma
Author: Jeffrey C. AlexanderPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745661351
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe. Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He outlines a model of trauma work that relates interests of carrier groups, competing narrative identifications of victim and perpetrator, utopian and dystopian proposals for trauma resolution, the performative power of constructed events, and the distribution of organizational resources. Alexander explores these processes in richly textured case studies of cultural-trauma origins and effects, from the universalism of the Holocaust to the particularism of the Israeli right, from postcolonial battles over the Partition of India and Pakistan to the invisibility of the Rape of Nanjing in Maoist China. In a particularly controversial chapter, Alexander describes the idealizing discourse of globalization as a trauma-response to the Cold War. Contemporary societies have often been described as more concerned with the past than the future, more with tragedy than progress. In Trauma: A Social Theory, Alexander explains why.
Outlines of the Sociology of Human Behavior
Author: Daniel Harrison KulpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Development of Social Theory
Author: James Pendleton LichtenbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The Comparative Rôle of the Group Concept in Ward's "Dynamic Sociology" and Contemporary American Sociology
Author: Walter Blaine BodenhaferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Sociology and Political Theory
Author: Harry Elmer BarnesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description