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Understanding Religious Ritual - Theoretical approaches and innovations (Hardcover): John Hoffmann Understanding Religious Ritual - Theoretical approaches and innovations (Hardcover)
John Hoffmann
R4,212 Discovery Miles 42 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists, it is rare to find a work that brings scholars from different disciplines together to discuss the similarities and differences in their research. This book represents contributions by leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic.

The goals of the chapters are to consider where the field currently stands in understanding religious rituals and what novel ideas can improve our knowledge about these practices; and furnish innovative applications of theory by discussing particular examples which are drawn from the authors? fieldwork. The chapters cover Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic rituals, thus providing a view of how ritual practices vary across the globe, but also how they share some important characteristics.

The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) - A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change (Paperback):... The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) - A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change (Paperback)
Anthony D. Smith
R1,352 Discovery Miles 13 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.

Understanding Modernity - Toward a new perspective going beyond Durkheim and Weber (Hardcover): Richard Munch Understanding Modernity - Toward a new perspective going beyond Durkheim and Weber (Hardcover)
Richard Munch
R5,094 Discovery Miles 50 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1988, this volume works towards a new understanding and exploration of the rise and development of modern society, taking its lead from two classical theorists, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. The key concept of this approach is the 'interpenetration' of different spheres of action. Richard Munch begins with an exploration of the points of convergence and divergence in the works of Durkheim and Weber. He then builds, from Durkheim, a new theory of social order as a complex set of ordering, dynamizing, identity-producing and goal-setting factors. Munch also constructs a new theory of personality development, based on Durkheim's view of the duality of human nature. He concludes by assessing weber's contribution to our understanding of how modern social order emerged, showing that the unique features of modern society emerged from the 'interpenetration' of cultural, political, communal and economic spheres in action.

Technocratic Politics - Beyond Democratic Society? (Hardcover): Francesco Antonelli Technocratic Politics - Beyond Democratic Society? (Hardcover)
Francesco Antonelli
R1,379 Discovery Miles 13 790 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book considers the role of experts and expertise in contemporary politics and the ways in which digitalisation and the use of technique are transforming practices of governance. Asking whether the Covid-19 crisis is likely to further advance or weaken these processes, it examines their impact on the future of democracy and urges rejection of the idea of technocracy as an alternative to politics. An examination of the relationship between social elites and technique, this volume highlights the threat posed to representative democracy of this fundamental mechanism of governance in the global world and reflects upon new forms of the political-economic regime. It is important reading for scholars of sociology and politics with interests in questions of power, governance, and representation.

Critics of Society (Routledge Revivals) - Radical Thought in North America (Hardcover): Tom B. Bottomore Critics of Society (Routledge Revivals) - Radical Thought in North America (Hardcover)
Tom B. Bottomore
R3,196 R1,149 Discovery Miles 11 490 Save R2,047 (64%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is to lay bare the connections between intellectual dissent and theories of society, and in so doing to to explore the neglected subject of the heritage of American radical thinking.

Readers of this book will not only emerge enlightened by Professor Bottomore's impressive knowledge of American radical thought, but with a greatly increased understanding of contemporary American history. He ends with the question of whether the new radicalism can find a firmer basis than the student movement or the negro revolt; cn produce an ideology both responsive to the doutbs and complexties of our time and capable of directing action to plausible ends.

Niklas Luhmann (Hardcover): Christian Borch Niklas Luhmann (Hardcover)
Christian Borch
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time. It presents the key concepts within Luhmann's multifaceted theory of modern society, and compares them with the work of other key social theorists such as J?rgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and Zygmunt Bauman.

The book pays particular attention to introducing and discussing Luhmann's original sociological systems theory. It presents a thorough investigation into the different phases of his oeuvre, through which both the shifting emphases as well as the continuities in his thinking are shown. The primary focus of this text is Luhmann's theory of modern society as being differentiated into a plethora of ?function systems? ? such as politics, law, and economy ? which operate according to their own distinct logics and which cannot interfere with one another. For Luhmann, this functional differentiation works as a bulwark against totalitarian rule, and as such is a key foundation of modern democracy. Furthermore, the book critically examines the implications of this functional differentiation for inclusion and exclusion dynamics, as well as for the understanding of power and politics.

This is a key text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of areas including contemporary social theory, political sociology, and sociology.

Not So Black and White - A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics (Hardcover): Kenan Malik Not So Black and White - A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics (Hardcover)
Kenan Malik
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars. Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms? The 'culture wars' have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity. This book takes the long view, explaining the real origins of 'race' in Western thought, and tracing its path from those beginnings in the Enlightenment all the way to our own fractious world. In doing so, leading thinker Kenan Malik upends many assumptions underpinning today's heated debates around race, culture, whiteness and privilege. Malik interweaves this history of ideas with a parallel narrative: the story of the modern West's long, failed struggle to escape ideas of race, leaving us with a world riven by identity politics. Through these accounts, he challenges received wisdom, revealing the forgotten history of a racialised working class, and questioning fashionable concepts like cultural appropriation. Not So Black and White is both a lucid history rewriting the story of race, and an elegant polemic making an anti-racist case against the politics of identity.

The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) - A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change (Hardcover):... The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) - A Critique of the Functionalist Theory of Social Change (Hardcover)
Anthony D. Smith
R3,915 Discovery Miles 39 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.

Social Development (Routledge Revivals) - Its Nature and Conditions (Hardcover): L. T. Hobhouse Social Development (Routledge Revivals) - Its Nature and Conditions (Hardcover)
L. T. Hobhouse
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards rationality in thought and action and his insistence on the principle that in all social investigations it is necessary to distinguish between questions of fact and questions of value.

Social Evolution and Sociological Categories (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Paul Q. Hirst Social Evolution and Sociological Categories (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Paul Q. Hirst
R3,905 Discovery Miles 39 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1976, this book is concerned with the nature of classification in the social sciences. Its thesis is that classifications are dependent upon and are derived from theoretical explanations. Classification is not a theoretically neutral typification or ordering of social forms. This is because objects classified a " societies, social institutions a " are not given to knowledge independently of the categories which construct them and because the categories of classification are themselves the products of theories.

Free-Thought in the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): J.A. Hobson Free-Thought in the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
J.A. Hobson
R3,488 R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Save R2,305 (66%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A. Hobson, elucidating his views on a variety of topics across the social sciences. He makes particular reference to the struggle between the disinterested urge of the social scientist and the interests and other motive forces which tend to influence and mould his processes of inquiry. The work is split into three parts, focussing upon free-thinking, economics and political ethics respectively.

On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method (Hardcover): Mike Gane On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method (Hardcover)
Mike Gane
R3,915 Discovery Miles 39 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This radical appraisal of Durkheim's method, first published in 1988, argues that fundamental errors have been made in interpreting Durkheim. Mike Gane argues that to understand The Rules it is necessary also to understand the context of the French society in which the book was written. He explores the cultural and philosophical debates which raged in France during the period when Durkheim prepared the book and establishes the real and unsuspected complexity of Durkheim's position: its formal complexity, its epistemological complexity, and its historical complexity.

The Philosophy of Social Science Reader (Hardcover): Francesco Guala, Daniel Steel The Philosophy of Social Science Reader (Hardcover)
Francesco Guala, Daniel Steel
R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Philosophy of Social Science Reader is an outstanding, comprehensive and up-to-date collection of key readings in the philosophy of social science, covering the essential issues, problems and debates in this important interdisciplinary area.

Each section is carefully introduced by the editors, and the readings placed in context. The anthology is organized into seven clear parts:

  • Values and Social Science
  • Causal Inference and Explanation
  • Interpretation
  • Rationality and Choice
  • Individualism
  • Norms
  • Cultural Evolution.

Featuring the work of influential philosophers and social scientists such as Ernest Nagel, Ian Hacking, John Searle, Clifford Geertz, Daniel Kahneman, Steven Lukes and Richard Dawkins, The Philosophy of Social Science Reader is the ideal text for philosophy of social science courses, and for students in related disciplines interested in the differences between the social and natural sciences.

Explaining Global Poverty - A Critical Realist Approach (Paperback): Branwen Gruffydd Jones Explaining Global Poverty - A Critical Realist Approach (Paperback)
Branwen Gruffydd Jones
R1,353 Discovery Miles 13 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested this global disgrace and symbolizes the nature of poverty to the western world. In order to truly emancipate the poverty stricken around the world we must necessarily understand the reasons for its existence. In a departure from traditional critical realist theory, Gruffydd-Jones argues the benefits of reassessing the relevance of objective inquiry and emphasizes its primacy over normative theory in the battle to truly understand the reasons for the African crisis. This approach brings us a book of real relevance for inequality in the modern world and gives us an important platform from which to move forwards in the fight against poverty.

Painism - A Modern Morality (Paperback): Richard D. Ryder Painism - A Modern Morality (Paperback)
Richard D. Ryder
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dr Richard Ryder has played a creative role in developing new ethical ideas for over 30 years and was part of a small group of Oxford writers in the early 1970s who revived interest in the ethical treatment of animals. Including animals within the moral circle was itself a revolutionary step and one that has begun to bear fruit in the new body of legislation protecting animals internationally. These ideas helped pioneer the modern interest in applied ethics generally. Ryder's concept of speciesism is now widely debated in philosophical circles, and indeed has had an entry in the Oxford Dictionary since 1985. Ryder. Painism, a term Ryder coined in 1990, is the word he employs to describe his unique ethical position. Painism goes far wider than the treatment of animals, and also covers human situations, many of which are examined in this book - often with provocative and controversial results. Painism's implications for human society are quite considerable, not least because of its insistence that the quantity of sufferers affected by any event is irrelevant; instead, all is judged by the pain of the individual who suffers most. Thus painism stands between, and to an extent forms a bridge between, the two great rival theories in modern ethics: Utilitarianism and Rights Theory.

The Ecological Modernisation Reader - Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice (Paperback): Arthur P.J. Mol, David A.... The Ecological Modernisation Reader - Environmental Reform in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
Arthur P.J. Mol, David A. Sonnenfeld, Gert Spaargaren
R1,666 Discovery Miles 16 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Environmental reform by governmental, intergovernmental agencies, private firms and industries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a worldwide phenomenon. This definitive collection showcases an introduction to Ecological Modernisation Theory; state-of-the-art review essays by key international scholars and a selection of the key articles from a quarter-century of social science scholarship. It is aimed at students, researchers and policymakers interested in a deep understanding of contemporary environmental issues

Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life (Hardcover): Iain Wilkinson Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life (Hardcover)
Iain Wilkinson
R3,904 Discovery Miles 39 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is now sociological common sense to declare that, in everyday life, large numbers of people approach matters of work, family life, trust and friendship with 'risk' constantly in mind - this book, the first multidisciplinary approach to risk, provides an introductory overview of this phenomenon. Iain Wilkinson outlines contrasting sociological theories of risk, and summarizes some of the principle discoveries of empirical research conducted into the ways people perceive, experience and respond to a world of danger. It also examines some of the moral concerns and political interests that feature in this area of study. Designed to equip readers not only with the sociological means to debate the human consequences of our contemporary culture of risk, but also, with the critical resources to evaluate the significance this holds for current sociology, this book provides a perfectly pitched undergraduate introduction to the topic.

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development - The Bloomington School (Hardcover): Paul agos Aligica, Peter J. Boettke Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development - The Bloomington School (Hardcover)
Paul agos Aligica, Peter J. Boettke
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development demonstrates the importance of one of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics winners Elinor Ostrom's research program. The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory movement. Its ascendancy is considered to be the result of a unique and extremely successful combination of interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and hard-nosed empiricism. This book demonstrates that the well-known interdisciplinary and empirical agenda of the Bloomington Research Program is the result of a less-known but very bold proposition: an attempt to revitalize and extend into the new millennium a traditional mode of analysis illustrated by authors like Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Madison and Tocqueville. As such, the School tries to synthesize the traditional perspectives with the contemporary developments in social sciences and thus to re-ignite the old approach in the new intellectual and political context of the twentieth century.

The book presents an outline and a systematic analysis of the vision behind the Bloomington Research Program in Institutional Analysis and Development, explaining its basic assumptions and its main themes as well as the foundational philosophy that frames its research questions and theoretical and methodological approaches.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of social science, especially those in the fields of economics, political sciences, sociology and public administration.

Logic of the Powers - Towards an Impact-driven Practice of Futurist Statecraft (Paperback): Pak Nung Wong Logic of the Powers - Towards an Impact-driven Practice of Futurist Statecraft (Paperback)
Pak Nung Wong
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What global future would ensure hope, justice and peace to the human mankind? In view of a fast evolving post-Covid world order, this volume explores a novel Christian post-colonial approach to global affairs. It examines the existing 'sociology of the powers' theoretical scheme, the debate between Christian realism and Christian pacifism, the method and practice of prophetic witnessing, to elaborate a new Christian approach to statecraft and futurology in terms of theory, methodology and ontology. This book: * Uses the COVID-19 pandemic as the background to examine why and how the pandemic has accelerated the US's decline, and to identify the tacit game rules that contributed to the UK government's mishandling of the pandemic; * Compares the political systems between China and the West, and engages with selected theoretical narratives from the Global South to envision an alternative 'shared globalisation' project; * Argues why it is important for post-colonial Christian individuals and communities to get involved in this global discussion for a new world order of complex realist interdependencies grounded on hope, social justice and peace. A fresh take on global politics and international relations, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science, religious studies, peace studies, theology and future studies.

Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities - Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a... Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities - Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective (Paperback)
Heidemarie Winkel, Angelika Poferl
R1,229 Discovery Miles 12 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Until today, Western, European sociology contributes to the social reality of colonial modernity, and gender knowledge is a paradigmatic example of it. Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities critically engages with these 'Western eyes' and shifts the focus towards the global variety of gendered socialities and hierarchically entangled social histories. This is conceptualised as multiple gender cultures within plural modernities. The authors examine the multifaceted realities of gendered life in varying contexts across the globe. Bringing together different perspectives, the volume provides a rereading of the social fabric of gender in contrast to androcentrist-modernist as well as orientalist representations of 'the' gendered Other. The key questions explored by this volume are: which social mechanisms lead to conflicting or shifting gender dynamics against the backdrop of global entanglements and interdependencies, and to what extent are neocolonial gender regimes at work in this regard? How are varying gender cultures sociohistorically and culturally structured, and how are they connected within (global) power relations? How can established hierarchies and asymmetries become an object of criticism? How can historical, cultural, social, and political specificities be analysed without gendered and other reifications? That way, the volume aims to promote border thinking in sociological understanding of social reality towards multiple gender cultures and plural modernities.

The Power of Looks - Social Stratification of Physical Appearance (Hardcover, New Ed): Bonnie Berry The Power of Looks - Social Stratification of Physical Appearance (Hardcover, New Ed)
Bonnie Berry
R4,346 Discovery Miles 43 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is a saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, implying that beauty is subjective. But can it be said that 'better looking' people have more social power? This book provides a fascinating insight into the social stratification of people based on looks - the artificial placement of people into greater and lesser power strata based on physical appearance. The author analyzes different aspects of physical appearance such as faces, breasts, eye shapes, height and weight as they are related to social power and inequality. For example, tall people are often associated with power, with tall people being seen publicly as more capable and thus more deserving of power than shorter people. The author moreover assesses how people's physical appearance affects their chances of marriage, employment, education, and other social and economic opportunities. The book contributes to and differentiates itself from current literature by emphasizing sociological theory - including constructionism and critical theory - and research to understand the phenomenon of social aesthetics, a term coined by the author to refer to the social reaction to physical appearance.

The Politics of Mass Society (Paperback, Revised ed.): William Kornhauser The Politics of Mass Society (Paperback, Revised ed.)
William Kornhauser
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Politics of Mass Society explores the social conditions necessary for democracy and the vulnerabilities of large scale society to totalitarian systems. Mass movements mobilize people who are alienated from the social system, who do not believe in the legitimacy of the established order, and who are therefore ready to engage in efforts to destroy. Contrary to the psychological approach prevalent in European doctrines of mass movements, Kornhauser persuasively argues that social order is the critical factor. The greatest number of people available to mass movements are located in those segments of society that have the fewest ties to social order.

The book draws on a wide range of materials--from classical political theory contemporary sociological analysis, historical and intuitional studies, public opinion surveys, and other published and unpublished data. Kornhauser selected political phenomena in organizations, communities, classes, and whole societies. He examined support for communism and fascism in a variety of countries in relation to rates of urbanization and industrialization, employment, and suicide and homicide among other phenomena. In his new introduction, Irving Louis Horowitz identifies Kornhauser's book as a seminal work of the great tradition in political sociology in the mid-twentieth century.

Kornhauser points out that modern democratic systems possess a distinct vulnerability to mass movements. He spells out and identifies factors that tend to increase or decrease this vulnerability--not least the health and strength of elites. In this way, the book reveals new clues to the origins and nature of mass political movements. The Politics of Mass Society remains the most complete analytical account of the sociological approach to mass society in advanced industrial societies.

Emotions in Command - Biology, Bureaucracy, and Cultural Evolution (Paperback): Frank K. Salter Emotions in Command - Biology, Bureaucracy, and Cultural Evolution (Paperback)
Frank K. Salter
R1,566 Discovery Miles 15 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is part of a quest for a general theory of organizations valid in all cultures. Central to Frank Salter's investigation is the question of social power: why people obey their superiors. His approach is to locate the nature of organizational power in the behavioral details of hierarchical interactions in the institutional settings in which they occur.

Salter begins by noting the extensive research that points to hierarchy as being a necessary component of organization and proceeds to an analysis rendered in universals of primary emotions and behaviors of dominance and affiliation. The first five chapters are theoretical, the last seven empirical. He reviews the social science literature showing the place of ethological methods and concepts, then aspects of the evolution and physiology of dominance and affiliation. Salter then introduces the emotional underpinnings of dominance and affiliation, and applies these concepts in a summary of the literature on interpersonal signaling. He describes the methods used, drawing parallels with classical ethology, anthropology, and sociology.

The empirical section begins with a short chapter examining the simple commands given in a military parade. Chapter 7 analyses nightclub doormen's use of dominance in dealing with troublesome patrons. Chapter 8 describes the giving and receiving of commands in artistic rehearsals, and finds generally soft, appeased commands. Chapters 9 and 10 analyze courts and meetings respectively, finding both blunt and softened commands. Chapter 11 reports preliminary observations of command in general government bureaucracy, a setting which combines many organizational techniques in a highly articulated infrastructure. The concluding chapter summarizes the data and adopts a comparative method in searching for relationships between structural variables of institutional dominance and behavioral variables of command aggression, subordinate submission and resistance, and task characteristics.

Provocative and well written, Emotions in Command will appeal to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, and social and organizational-industrial psychology.

Ethics, Economy and Social Science - Dialogues with Andrew Sayer (Hardcover): Balihar Sanghera, Gideon Calder Ethics, Economy and Social Science - Dialogues with Andrew Sayer (Hardcover)
Balihar Sanghera, Gideon Calder
R3,838 Discovery Miles 38 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is a collection of critical engagements with Andrew Sayer, one of the foremost postdisciplinary thinkers of our times, with responses from Sayer himself. Sayer's ground-breaking contributions to the fields of geography, political economy and social theory have reshaped the terms of engagement with issues and debates running from the methodology of social science through to the environment, and industrial development to the ethical dimensions of everyday life. Transatlantic scholars across a wide range of fields explore his work across four main areas: critical realism; moral economy; political economy; and relations between social theory, normativity and class. This is the first full-length critical assessment of Sayer's work. It will be of interest to readers in sociology, economics, political economy, social and political philosophy, ethics, social policy, geography and urban studies, from upper-undergraduate levels upwards.

Personality in Social Theory (Paperback): Patricke Johns Heine Personality in Social Theory (Paperback)
Patricke Johns Heine
R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Debate about "self," "person," or "individuality" has come to be recognized as a crisis of modern times. Since it is our fashion to call problems that are either poorly formulated or inadequately resolved by empirical investigation "philosophic," a would-be "science of personality" may be labelled philosophic, though they could as easily be called logical or empirical.

This work represents a fruitful integration of the many approaches that have been taken by investigators of individual behavior within the social milieu in which it occurs. The author points out that while psychologists and sociologists in the past have each endorsed their own formulations of the relation between the individual and society, their influence on the heartland between the two disciplines, social psychology, has not been conspicuous. In setting forth the sociological side of contemporary social psychology by examining its research and its literature, all of which bear upon the "problem of personality," this book fills the vital need of showing the links of the individual with society along the perimeter of personality theory. Heine presents a summary of the positions on personality theory taken by psychologists and sociologists, with particular emphasis devoted to role theory and research. She offers systematic coverage of speculations about the influence of the individual on the various groups of which he is a part as they have been introduced in psychological literature. The author puts into historical perspective the significant contributions of theorists such as Allport, Mead, LeBon, Goffman, McDougall, Sherif, and Shibutani and analyzes and integrates psychological and sociological theory.

This book is for everyone interested in personality from a social/psychological viewpoint. It is well suited for courses in personality theory, social psychology, and sociological theory and will be a useful reference for both psychologists and sociologists.

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