The Necessity Of Social Control

Author : István Mészáros
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583675388
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necessity of Social Control written by István Mészáros and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness—a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought—is unequaled in our time.” Mészáros is the author of magisterial works like Beyond Capital and Social Structures of Forms of Consciousness, but his work can seem daunting to those unacquainted with his thought. Here, for the first time, is a concise and accessible overview of Mészáros’s ideas, designed by the author himself and covering the broad scope of his work, from the shortcomings of bourgeois economics to the degeneration of the capital system to the transition to socialism.

Author : István Mészáros
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583675396
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Necessity of Social Control written by István Mészáros and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As John Bellamy Foster writes in his foreword to the present book, “István Mészáros is one of the greatest philosophers that the historical materialist tradition has yet produced. His work stands practically alone today in the depth of its analysis of Marx’s theory of alienation, the structural crisis of capital, the demise of Soviet-style post-revolutionary societies, and the necessary conditions of the transition to socialism. His dialectical inquiry into social structure and forms of consciousness—a systematic critique of the prevailing forms of thought—is unequaled in our time.” Mészáros is the author of magisterial works like Beyond Capital and Social Structures of Forms of Consciousness, but his work can seem daunting to those unacquainted with his thought. Here, for the first time, is a concise and accessible overview of Mészáros’s ideas, designed by the author himself and covering the broad scope of his work, from the shortcomings of bourgeois economics to the degeneration of the capital system to the transition to socialism.

Author : Frederick Elmore Lumley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Means of Social Control written by Frederick Elmore Lumley and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James J. Chriss
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745638570
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control written by James J. Chriss and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-09-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James J. Chriss carefully guides readers through the debates about social control. The book provides a comprehensive guide to historical debates and more recent controversies, examining in detail the criminal justice system, medicine, everyday life and national security.

Author : Joseph Slabey Rouček
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control written by Joseph Slabey Rouček and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1970 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Alsworth Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control written by Edward Alsworth Ross and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Tracy LaPiere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Social Control written by Richard Tracy LaPiere and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael A. Lebowitz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583675469
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Socialist Imperative written by Michael A. Lebowitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital(winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of “Real Socialism.” Here, he develops and deepens the analysis contained in those pathbreaking works by tracing major issues in socialist thought from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first. Lebowitz explores the obvious but almost universally ignored fact that as human beings work together to produce society’s goods and services, we also “produce” something else: namely, ourselves. Human beings are shaped by circumstances, and any vision of socialism that ignores this fact is bound to fail, or, at best, reproduce the alienation of labor that is endemic to capitalism. But how can people transform their circumstances in a way that allows them to re-organize production and, at the same time, fulfill their human potential? Lebowitz sets out to answer this question first by examining Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme, and from there investigates the experiences of the Soviet Union and more recent efforts to build socialism in Venezuela. He argues that socialism in the twenty-first century must be animated by a central vision, in three parts: social ownership of the means of production, social production organized by workers, and the satisfaction of communal needs and communal purposes. These essays repay careful reading and reflection, and prove Lebowitz to be one of the foremost Marxist thinkers of this era.

Author : Edward Alsworth Ross
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412834279
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control written by Edward Alsworth Ross and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Control falls within social psychology, which is thebranch of knowledge that deals with the psychic interplaybetween man and his environment. In Ross' terms, one ofthese branches, social ascendency, deals with the dominationof society over the individual. Another, individualascendency, embraces such topics as invention, leadership,the role of great men, and deals with the dominationof the individual over society. Social ascendency is divided into social infl uence--mob mind, fashion, convention, custom, public opinion,and the like--and social control. Th e former is occupiedwith social domination that is without intention or purpose.The latter is concerned with social domination thatis intended and that fulfi ls a function in the life of society.At the start of the twentieth century this work played animportant role in the origination of social psychology asa distinct field. Ross sought to determine how far the order we seeabout us is due to infl uences that reach men and womenwithout social intervention. Investigation shows that thepersonality freely unfolds under conditions of healthy fellowshipand may arrive at goodness on its own, and thatorder is explained partly by this streak in human natureand partly by the infl uence of social surroundings. Ross'book separates the individual's contribution to socialorder from that of society, and, brings to light everythingthat is considered in the social contribution of the individual.Th is classic volume is an important contributionto the history of ideas. Edward Alsworth Ross (1866-1951) wasknown as one of the founders of Americansociology and was most famous for hisview that the purpose of sociology is thereform of society. He was also professorand chair of the department of sociologyat the University of Wisconsin. Some ofhis work includes Sin and Society, ChangingAmerica and The Social Trend. Matthias Gross is senior research scientist in the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on the history of the social sciences, environmental sociology, and science and technology studies.

Author : Edward Alsworth Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social control written by Edward Alsworth Ross and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: