[PDF] Studies In Social And Political Theory eBook

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317650646

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The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.

Author : Shlomo Avineri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521096195

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Translation of Mishnato ha-òhevratit òveha-medinit shel òKarl Marks.

Author : David Austen-Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2000-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472087211

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A definitive, comprehensive, and analytically sophisticated treatment of the theory of collective preference

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317650638

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The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter for the position and prospects of the social sciences today. The issues involved relate to the following series of problems: method and epistemology; social development and transformation; the origins of 'sociology' in nineteenth-century social theory; and the status of social science as critique. In each of these areas, Giddens develops views that challenge existing orthodoxies, and connects these ideas to a reconstruction of social theory in the contemporary era.

Author : Jean L. Cohen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 1994-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262531214

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In this first serious work on the theory of civil society to appear in many years, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato contend that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become the primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights. In this major contribution to contemporary political theory, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato argue that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become a primary locus for the expansion of democracy and rights.

Author : W. G. Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 1969-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521074742

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This 1969 study considers the relation of sociology to political philosophy and extends traditional political philosophy in the direction of contemporary developments.

Author : Jason Glynos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134138350

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This book proposes a novel approach to practising social and political analysis based on the role of logics. The authors articulate a distinctive perspective on social science explanation that avoids the problems of scientism and subjectivism by steering a careful course between lawlike explanations and thick descriptions. Drawing upon hermeneutics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and post-analytical philosophy, this new approach offers a particular set of logics – social, political and fantasmatic – with which to construct critical explanations of practices and regimes. While the first part of the book critically engages with lawlike, interpretivist and causal approaches to critical explanation, the second part elaborates an alternative grammar of concepts informed by an ontological stance rooted in poststructuralist theory. In developing this approach, a number of empirical cases are included to illustrate its basic concepts and logics, ranging from the apartheid regime in South Africa to recent changes in higher education. The book will be a valuable tool for scholars and researchers in a variety of related fields of study in the social sciences, especially the disciplines of political science and political theory, international relations, social theory, cultural studies, anthropology and philosophy.

Author : Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400830672

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The project of twentieth-century sociology and political science--to create predictive scientific theory--resulted in few full-scale theories that can be taken off the shelf and successfully applied to empirical puzzles. Yet focused "theory frames" that formulate problems and point to relevant causal factors and conditions have produced vibrant, insightful, and analytically oriented empirical research. While theory frames alone cannot offer explanation or prediction, they guide empirical theory formation and give direction to inferences from empirical evidence. They are also responsible for much of the progress in the social sciences. In Usable Theory, distinguished sociologist Dietrich Rueschemeyer shows graduate students and researchers how to construct theory frames and use them to develop valid empirical hypotheses in the course of empirical social and political research. Combining new ideas as well as analytic tools derived from classic and recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges the rationalist model of action by focusing on knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions, and it discusses larger social formations that shape elementary forms of action. Throughout, Usable Theory seeks to mobilize the implicit theoretical social knowledge used in everyday life. Offers tools for theory building in social and political research Complements the rationalist model of action with discussions of knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions Relates theoretical ideas to problems of methodology Situates elementary forms of action in relation to larger formations Combines new ideas with themes from classic and more recent theories

Author : John S Dryzek
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199548439

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Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.