"The Last Half-Century" represents the culmination of a lifetime of
scholarship by Morris Janowitz. In this comprehensive and
systematic analysis of the major trends in American society during
the past fifty years, he probes the weakening of popular party
affiliations and the increased inability of elected representatives
to rule. Centering his work on the crucial concept of social
control, Janowitz orders and assesses a vast amount of empirical
research to clarify the failure of basic social institutions to
resolve our chronic conflicts.
For Janowitz, social control denotes a society's capacity to
regulate itself within a moral framework that transcends simple
self-interest. He poses urgent questions: Why has social control
been so drastically weakened in our advanced industrial society?
And what strategies can we use to strengthen it again?
The expanation rests in part on the changes in social structure
which make it more and more complicated for citizens to calculate
their political self-interest. At the same time, complex economic
and defense problems also strain an already overburdened
legislative system, making effective, responsive political rule
increasingly difficult.
Janowitz concludes by assessing the response of the social sciences
to the pressing problem of social control and asserts that new
forms of citizen participation in the government must be
found.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith |
| Release date: |
June 1979 |
| First published: |
June 1979 |
| Authors: |
Morris Janowitz
|
| Dimensions: |
231 x 162 x 4mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
598 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-39306-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-226-39306-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780226393063 |
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