Political Science And The Problem Of Social Order

Author : Henrik Enroth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009090291
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Science and the Problem of Social Order written by Henrik Enroth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of social order is the question of what holds complex and diverse societies together. Today, this question has become increasingly urgent in the world. Yet our ability to ask and answer the question in a helpful way is constrained by the intellectual legacy through which the question has been handed down to us. In this impressive, erudite study, Henrik Enroth describes and analyzes how the problem of social order has shaped concept formation, theory, and normative arguments in political science. The book covers a broad range of influential thinkers and theories throughout the history of political science, from the early twentieth century onwards. Social order has long been a presupposition for inquiry in political science; now we face the challenge of turning it into an object of inquiry.

Author : Karol Edward Sołtan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108688
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions and Social Order written by Karol Edward Sołtan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between institutions and the maintenance of social order

Author : Douglass Cecil North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761735
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and Social Orders written by Douglass Cecil North and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

Author : Cedric J. Robinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469628228
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Terms of Order written by Cedric J. Robinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of leadership as a basis for describing and prescribing social order. Using a variety of critical approaches in his analysis, Robinson synthesizes elements of psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, classical and neoclassical political philosophy, and cultural anthropology in order to argue that Western thought on leadership is mythological rather than rational. He then presents examples of historically developed "stateless" societies with social organizations that suggest conceptual alternatives to the ways political order has been conceived in the West. Examining Western thought from the vantage point of a people only marginally integrated into Western institutions and intellectual traditions, Robinson's perspective radically critiques fundamental ideas of leadership and order.

Author : Edward J. Lawler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107433977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order on the Edge of Chaos written by Edward J. Lawler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Order and stability are tenuous and fragile. People have to work to create and sustain a semblance of stability and order in their lives and in their organizations and larger communities. Order on the Edge of Chaos compares different ideas about how we coordinate and cooperate. The ideas come from 'micro-sociology', and they offer new answers to the classic question of Thomas Hobbes: 'how is social order possible?' The most common answers in sociology, political science, and economics assume a fundamental tension between individual and group interests. This volume reveals that social orders are problematic even without such tension, because when people interact with each other, they verify their identities, feel and respond to emotions, combine different goal frames, and develop shared responsibility. The ties of people to groups result from many aspects of their social interactions, and these cannot be explained by individual self-interest.

Author : Dennis Wrong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439106479
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problem of Order written by Dennis Wrong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the twentieth century, many fear that the bonds holding civil society together have come undone. Yet, as the noted scholar Dennis Wrong shows us, our generation is not alone in fearing a breakdown of social ties and a descent into violent conflict.

Author : Alan Sica
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520378849
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order written by Alan Sica and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite immediate appearances, this book is not primarily a hermeneutical exercise in which the superiority of one interpretation of canonical texts is championed against others. Its origin lies elsewhere, near the overlap of history, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and social theory of the usual kind. Weber, Pareto, Freud, W. I. Thomas, Max Scheler, Karl Mannheim, and many others of similar stature long ago wondered and wrote much about the interplay between societal rationalization and individual rationality, between collective furor and private psychopathology—in short, about the strange and worrisome union of “character and social structure” (to recall Gerth and Mills). Pondering the history of social thought in this century can lead to the unpleasant realization that such large-scale questions slipped away, especially from sociologists, sometime before World War II. Or, if not entirely lost, they were so transformed in range and rhetoric that a gap opened between contemporary theorizing and its European background. Perhaps this partly explains Weber’s continuing appeal. By dealing with him, one might again broach topics long at odds with “social science” of the last forty years.—From the Preface This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Author : Lars Udehn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415125123
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Public Choice written by Lars Udehn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas cannot be imported wholesale from economics to political science. Through empirical evidence and theoretical analysis the author argues that sociological as well as economic theories must be accommodated.

Author : Todd R. La Porte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140086996X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Organized Social Complexity written by Todd R. La Porte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this volume contend, has reached a point where accepted concepts fail to describe social and political phenomena adequately. The studies in this book reevaluate traditional assumptions. Part One defines organized social complexity and discusses the effects of technological change. Part Two assesses national planning and systems analysis, approaches supposed to provide direct control over social matters. Part Three describes methodological aspects and research applications, and Part Four provides retrospective and prospective views of theories on social complexity. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limited Access Orders in the Developing World: a New Approach to the Problems of Development written by Douglass C. North and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: