Ideology and Social Order (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideology and Social Order (RLE Social Theory) write by Eric Carlton. This book was released on 2014-08-13. Ideology and Social Order (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Truly interdisciplinary work between Sociology and History is are, because one discipline usually exploits the concerns or data of the other. Eric Carlton, however, has succeeded in bringing together the distinctive orientations of sociology and ancient history into a clearly written discussion of concerns crucial to both disciplines. Based on a comparative analysis or two pre-industrial civilisations, those of Ancient Egypt and Classical Athens, the study is primarily concerned with three issues. The first is the relationship between belief and action: does belief (intellectualised as ideology) affect or determine social behaviour? Second, the author examines the ways in which belief contributes to stability and ‘good order’ in society, and asks to what extent such factors as social status and social change are related to institutionalised mechanisms of social control. Finally, he indicates possible sociological frameworks or models which are ideological rather than stratificatory, whereby complex pre-industrial systems might be analysed. By analysing the societies of Ancient Egypt and Classical Athens in institutional terms, Eric Carlton examines the potency and pervasiveness of the ideological factor and shows that it is a persistent and determinative feature of this type of society.
Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory)
Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) write by Brian Fay. This book was released on 2014-08-27. Social Theory and Political Practice (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sociology and the Demystification of the Modern World (RLE Social Theory)
Sociology and the Demystification of the Modern World (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociology and the Demystification of the Modern World (RLE Social Theory) write by John Rex. This book was released on 2014-08-21. Sociology and the Demystification of the Modern World (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Rex’s controversial book concerns not only those who are professional sociologists but all thinking people who live in the modern world. One of the objects of sociology is to give ‘power to the people’, to make a contribution to the understanding of political problems. Rex writes from a deep conviction that sociology is a subject whose insights should be made available to the great mass of the people, so that they may liberate themselves from the mystification of social reality that is continually and routinely presented to them through the media, by those who exercise power and by those who have influence. The book is dedicated to St Augustine and Franz Fanon, both of whom, Rex points out, were conscious of living in an age which was embarking on a new barbarism, but had the courage to use their intellects to help understand the possibility of a better future. Rex continues in this tradition, and his main preoccupations are reflected in the present book. It includes a discussion of the problem of social knowledge, an analysis of the basic problems of theory building, and, with the aid of concepts derived from Max Weber, an attempt to understand the major problems of the first, second and third worlds. The author also looks at social structures and moral perspectives, and discusses the vocation of a sociologist in a collapsing civilisation. The book is certain to stimulate debate, both in sociological and political fields and more generally, and is also a serious contribution to the discussion of the methodology and purposes of sociology.
Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory)
Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory) write by Bryan S. Turner. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Dominant Ideologies (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The ways in which ideologies are transmitted; their effects on dominant and subordinate social classes in different societies; the contrast between individualistic and collectivist belief systems; and the diversity of cultural forms that coexist within the capitalist form of economic organization. This book is distinctive in its empirical and comparative approach to the study of the economic and cultural basis of social order, and in the wide range of societies that it covers. Japan, Germany and the USA constitute the core of the modern global economy, and have widely differing historical roots and cultural traditions. Argentina and Australia are white settler societies on the periphery of the capitalist world-system and as a result have certain common features, that are cut across in turn by social and political developments peculiar to each. Britain after a decade of Thatcherism is an interesting test of the efficacy of an ideological project designed to change the cultural values of a population. Poland shows the limitations of the imposition of a state socialist ideology, and the cultural complexities that result.
Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory)
Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory) write by Anthony Giddens. This book was released on 2014-08-21. Studies in Social and Political Theory (RLE Social Theory) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.
