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Two vivid sets of images epitomize the dramatic course of the
American right in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The
main image is of a triumphant President Ronald Reagan, reasonably
viewed as the most effec-tive president of recent decades. A second
set of images comes from the bombing of a government building in
Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh, a man linked to shadowy parts of
the contemporary ultraright. The roots of Reaganism are
conservative, intellectual, and political movements of the 1950s
and 1960s, including currents that in those years were considered
marginal and ex-tremist. The roots of the ultraright of the 1990s
have intersecting though by no means identical sources. Serious
evaluation of the American right should begin with The Radical
Right. It describes the main positions and composition of
distinctive forces on the right in the first half of the 1950s and
the next decade. It recognizes the right's vehement opposition to
domestic and international Communism, its sharp rejec-tion of the
New Deal, and its difficulty in distinguishing between the two.
Bell's controversial point of departure is to regard the basic
position of what he terms the radical right as excessive in its
estimation of the Communist threat and unrealistic in its rejection
of New Deal reforms. From this starting point, Bell and his authors
evaluate the ways the right went beyond programs and the
self-descriptions of its leaders and organizers. The Radical Right
explains McCarthyism and its successors in terms of conflicts over
social status and the shape of American culture. Daniel Bell
focuses on the social dislo-cation of significant groups in the
post-New Deal decades. Many members of these groups perceived
themselves as dispossessed and victimized by recent changes, even
if it was not possible to regard them as having undergone any great
suffering. David Plotke's major new introduction discusses the
book's argument, McCarthyism and American politics, the changing
shape of the American right from 1965-2000, mili-tias, and new
issues in American politics. This edition also includes an
afterword by Daniel Bell responding to Plotke's interpretation and
revisiting his own perspectives.
Since its original publication in 1976, The Cultural Contradictions
of Capitalism has been hailed as an intellectual tour de force that
redefines how we think about the relationship among econmomics,
culture, and social change. Daniel Bell, the author of such other
modern classics as The End of Ideology and The Coming of
Post-Industrial Society, argues that the unbounded drive of modern
capitalism undermines the moral foundations of the original
Protestant ethic that ushered in capitalism itself. In a major new
afterword, Bell offers a bracing perspective on contemporary
Western society, from the end of the Cold War to the rise and fall
of postmodernism, revealing the crucial cultural fault lines we
face as the twenty-first century approaches.
This collection brings together Daniel Bell's best work in essay
form. It deals with a variety of topics: technology and culture,
religion and personal identity, intellectuals and their societies,
and the uses and abuses of doctrines of social class. The Winding
Passage demonstrates the author's continuing concern with the
salient issues of our times, while its inspiration draws upon an
older, humanistic sociological tradition. In a central essay on
intellectuals, Bell examines the term new class and calls it a
muddle. Though the idea of class has been relevant to Western
industrial society for the past two hundred years, the concept is
less useful for examining Communist states, the Third World, and
even the emerging postindustrial sectors of the West. Bell seeks to
establish the idea of situs, the competitive conflict of functional
groups for shares in the state budgetary process. A more personal
note is struck in the final section of the book. In reflecting on
the nature of intellectual life, the special role of the Jewish
intellectual, and the tension between the claims of the parochial
and the universal, Bell uses as a general framework antinomianism,
the claims of individual conscience against authority, law, and
established institutions. And in a final statement, "The Return of
the Sacred," Bell explores the enlightenment belief in the
dissolution of religion and attempts to show why it was wrong. This
is a must book for those concerned with the sociology of knowledge,
intellectual history, and social stratification. Speaking of The
Winding Passage, Seymour Martin Lipset called the book
"sociological analysis at its best" Irving Howe noted that "Bell is
always worth listening to. He is a true intellectual." And Irving
Louis Horowitz, in his review of the book, calls it "the sifted
excellence of a civilized and urbane intellectual.
While other academic disciplines claim a focus around specific
subject matter, sociologists think of their field as an approach to
understanding the often invisible forces and social contexts that
shape the way people conduct their lives. How these forces and
contexts are structured is central to sociology. But how do
sociologists analyze these invisible structures? This book
contributes to our understanding by bringing together a remarkable
set of master essays about modern sociology written by some of the
leading figures of the field. Each author describes a vision of
sociological inquiry or offers an example of research that
illustrates approaches and problems encountered in doing
sociological work. The collection is rounded out with a prologue by
Kai Erikson, an epilogue by Paul DiMaggio, and an extraordinary
autobiographical essay by Robert K. Merton. The book is introduced
by its editor as a set of reflections, a gathering of visions. But
the range of topics and the variety of authors represented make it
a valuable introduction to sociology as a discipline and as a way
of thinking.
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid
overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on
mass communication and society and how this research fits into
larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection
features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the
Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the
Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles
are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor
and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater,
yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and
military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the
avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio
drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news.
This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication
and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects,
and mass media history.
This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid
overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on
mass communication and society and how this research fits into
larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection
features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the
Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the
Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles
are reproduced in their entirety to preserve the historical flavor
and texture of the original works. Topics include popular theater,
yellow journalism, cinema, books, public relations, political and
military propaganda, advertising, opinion polling, photography, the
avant-garde, popular magazines, comics, the urban press, radio
drama, soap opera, popular music, and television drama and news.
This text is ideal for upper-level courses in mass communication
and media theory, media and society, mass communication effects,
and mass media history.
David Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged from this. He uses postmodern critical theory to investigate capitalism, its effect upon human desire and the Church's response to it, in a thorough account of the rise, failure and future prospects of Latin American liberation theology.
David Bell assesses the impact of Christian resistance to capitalism in Latin America, and the implications of theological debates that have emerged from this. He uses postmodern critical theory to investigate capitalism, its effect upon human desire and the Church's response to it, in a thorough account of the rise, failure and future prospects of Latin American liberation theology.
Two vivid sets of images epitomize the dramatic course of the
American right in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The
main image is of a triumphant President Ronald Reagan, reasonably
viewed as the most effec-tive president of recent decades. A second
set of images comes from the bombing of a government building in
Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh, a man linked to shadowy parts of
the contemporary ultraright. The roots of Reaganism are
conservative, intellectual, and political movements of the 1950s
and 1960s, including currents that in those years were considered
marginal and ex-tremist. The roots of the ultraright of the 1990s
have intersecting though by no means identical sources.
Serious evaluation of the American right should begin with The
Radical Right. It describes the main positions and composition of
distinctive forces on the right in the first half of the 1950s and
the next decade. It recognizes the right's vehement opposition to
domestic and international Communism, its sharp rejec-tion of the
New Deal, and its difficulty in distinguishing between the two.
Bell's controversial point of departure is to regard the basic
position of what he terms the radical right as excessive in its
estimation of the Communist threat and unrealistic in its rejection
of New Deal reforms. From this starting point, Bell and his authors
evaluate the ways the right went beyond programs and the
self-descriptions of its leaders and organizers.
The Radical Right explains McCarthyism and its successors in
terms of conflicts over social status and the shape of American
culture. Daniel Bell focuses on the social dislo-cation of
significant groups in the post-New Deal decades. Many members of
these groups perceived themselves as dispossessed and victimized by
recent changes, even if it was not possible to regard them as
having undergone any great suffering.
David Plotke's major new introduction discusses the book's
argument, McCarthyism and American politics, the changing shape of
the American right from 1965-2000, mili-tias, and new issues in
American politics. This edition also includes an afterword by
Daniel Bell responding to Plotke's interpretation and revisiting
his own perspectives.
In The Civil Society Reader Don Eberly presents the classic
writings of the leading scholars and organizers who have brought
the civil society debate to the forefront of American politics.
Are you feeling broken, perhaps in pieces, not knowing which way to
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be available to you, to answer some frequently asked questions and
to offer reassurance that things will get better in time. Sections
on family law, mediation, finance, mortgages, mental health and
wellbeing are here for you to dip into as and when you need. It's
Your Divorce Handbook - It's What You Do Next That Counts.
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