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This classic study deals with social control in advanced industrial society, especially the United States, and particularly the half-century after World War I. The United States is representative of Western advanced industrial nations that have been faced with marked strain in their political institutions. These nation-states have been experiencing a decline in popular confidence and distrust of the political process, an absence of decisive legislative majorities, and an increased inability to govern effectively, that is, to balance and to contain competing interest group demands and resolve political conflicts. Janowitz uses the sociological idea of social control to explore the sources of these political dilemmas. Social control does not imply coercion or the repression of the individual by societal institutions. Social control is, rather, the face of coercive control. It refers to the capacity of a social group, including a whole society, to regulate itself. Self-regulation implies a set of higher moral principles beyond those of self-interest. Since the end of World War II, the expanded scope of empirical research has profoundly transformed the sociological discipline. The repeated efforts to achieve a theoretical reformulation have left a positive residue, but there have been no new conceptual breakthroughs that are compelling. This book is a concerted and detailed effort organize and to make sense out of the vastly increased body of empirical research.
This classic study deals with social control in advanced industrial society, especially the United States, and particularly the half-century after World War I. The United States is representative of Western advanced industrial nations that have been faced with marked strain in their political institutions. These nation-states have been experiencing a decline in popular confidence and distrust of the political process, an absence of decisive legislative majorities, and an increased inability to govern effectively, that is, to balance and to contain competing interest group demands and resolve political conflicts. Janowitz uses the sociological idea of social control to explore the sources of these political dilemmas. Social control does not imply coercion or the repression of the individual by societal institutions. Social control is, rather, the face of coercive control. It refers to the capacity of a social group, including a whole society, to regulate itself. Self-regulation implies a set of higher moral principles beyond those of self-interest. Since the end of World War II, the expanded scope of empirical research has profoundly transformed the sociological discipline. The repeated efforts to achieve a theoretical reformulation have left a positive residue, but there have been no new conceptual breakthroughs that are compelling. This book is a concerted and detailed effort organize and to make sense out of the vastly increased body of empirical research.
This book includes Janowitz's seminal work, "The Military in the
Political Development of New Nations," with additional new analysis
of Latin American nations and of the increasing significance of
paramilitary and police forces in authoritarian regimes in
developing nations.
"A meticulous, well-tuned examination of what Janowitz says is the
decline of civic thought in America, and what might be done to
restore it. . . . The patriotism Janowitz proposes to reconstruct
is not the sort of narrow nationalism your political science
professor may have warned you about--patriotism as 'the last refuge
of a scoundrel.' It is instead a patriotism that intelligently
appreciates life in a (however imperfect) democratic land."--Robert
Marquand, "The Christian Science Monitor" "Morris Janowitz examines an issue that seldom is subject to social and political analysis--patriotism. His thesis is clear: The long-term trend in politics has been to enhance citizen rights without effective articulation of citizen obligations. A meaningful balance between the two, he contends, must be restored. . . . The strength of this study lies in Janowitz's persuasive argument that the durability and vitality of democratic institutions require that a sense of community, or shared values, be preserved. Without civiz consciousness, he rightly observes, social and political fragmentation ensues. . . . A lucid and impressively researched polemic."--W. Wesley McDonald, "American Political Science Review" "Janowitz addresses a seminal issue: how to restore the sense of shared civic responsibility that has fallen victim in recent years to our growing preoccupation with individual rights and the rise of special-interest groups. . . . Central to his prescription is the revival of the concept of the citizen soldier, whose importance since pre-Revolutionary War days Janoqitz discusses at length. He concludes, 'There can be no reconstruction of patriotism without a system of national service.' . . . An important book. I highly recommend it."--"Washington Monthly"
Sociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second
century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a
sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of
its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice,
and sinking prestige in governmental circles--these are only a few
of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how
sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most
authoritative voices in the field confront these conditions,
offering a variety of perspectives as they challenge sociologists
to self-examination.
In the four decades following the end of World War II, Morris
Janowitz (1919-88) published major works in macrosociology, urban
and political sociology, race and ethnic relations, and the study
of armed forces and society. His research was deeply rooted in the
traditions of philosophical pragmatism and the Chicago school of
sociology, influences which led him to reject grand theories and
mechanistic explanations of social life. Yet he remained confident
in the capacity of sociological reason to come to grips with
central aspects of the human condition. On the basis of his
studies, Janowitz came to believe that the transition from early to
advanced industrial society radically altered institutional
organization to make democratic social control more difficult,
though not impossible, to achieve. The task of his pragmatic
sociology was to identify fundamental trends in the social
organization of industrial societies, to indicate their substantive
implications for social control, and to clarify realistic
alternatives for institution building which would strengthen the
prospects for maintaining liberal democratic regimes.
"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.
"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.
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