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Saving Society - Breaking Out of Our Bureaucratic Way of Life (Hardcover)
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Saving Society - Breaking Out of Our Bureaucratic Way of Life (Hardcover)
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Why are a wide range of problems increasing throughout the world at
this time in history? Einstein claimed that the unleashed power of
the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we
thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. The current worldwide
economic crisis indicates that we are experiencing highly
threatening problems in addition to nuclear Armageddon that we fail
to understand.Following Einstein s implicit suggestion, we require
nothing less than changing our modes of thinking. This is what
Phillips and Christner point toward in tackling our fundamental
assumptions or metaphysical stance. They see our bureaucratic way
of life as much of the basis for escalating problems. Yet fully
half of the book is devoted to presenting an alternative: an
evolutionary worldview and way of life. They build on our two most
powerful tools, presently used only to a limited extent: language
and the scientific method. By so doing, they contrast our present
outward perception and thought, emotional repression, and
conforming behavior with inward-outward perception and thought,
emotional expression, and deep action and interaction. This
alternative is linked to evolutionary social structures such as
deep dialogue, deep democracy, and institutions that confront their
problems ever more effectively. They presents a worldview coupled
with a strategy for moving toward it based on realism no less than
idealism, or the glass half empty as well as the glass half
full.Saving Society addresses our escalating social problems by
building on key ideas from recent books of the Sociological
Imagination Group, including "Beyond Sociology s Tower of Babel"
(2001), "Toward a Sociological Imagination" (2002), "The Invisible
Crisis of Contemporary Society" (2007), "Understanding Terrorism"
(2007), "Armageddon or Evolution?" (2009) and "Bureaucratic Culture
and Escalating Problems" (2009). It makes use of language s
dichotomous, gradational, and metaphorical potentials coupled with
a broad and systematic approach to the scientific method,
presenting an image of the future for the individual no less than
for society."
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