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Future Of Agency - Between Autonomy And Heteronomy

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 <p>In this thought-provoking volume, leading scholars address the multifaceted concept of agency, dissecting its significance, applications, and challenges across various domains, and situate agency in changing socio-historical contexts in which individuals as members of larger groups try to reconcile guiding norms and values with the material conditions of their lives.</p><p>From sociological analyses to political explorations, the chapters traverse a rich landscape of ideas. The volume’s centerpiece (Part I) are two essays by lead authors Axel van den Berg, a prominent Canadian social theorist at McGill University in Montreal, and Emre Amasyal, a sociologist at Institut Barcelona d''Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), along with responses by other prominent social theorists provide reactions to and assessments of the two pieces, with a reply to critics by the authors. The second and third parts do not address the concept of agency explicitly, but they do provide treatments of the larger context in which the phenomenon is situated. Part Two includes an analysis of the relevance of the category of social class via Erik Olin Wright’s reception of Max Weber and a reconstruction of how the idea of a guaranteed minimum (or basic) income can be traced alongside the history of social theory, beginning with Hegel. Part Three reflect on political transformations that have manifested in the United States in recent years, which are having a bearing on the reality of agency, and on opportunities to create documentaries in order to relay social-theoretical ideas and concepts to larger audiences.</p><p><em>The Future of Agency</em> ignites intellectual curiosity, challenges assumptions, and redefines our understanding of human agency and its ever-evolving role in our complex world.</p>
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Planetary Sociology - Beyond The Entanglement Of Identity And Social Structure

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 <p>In <em>Planetary Sociology: Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure</em>, Harry F. Dahms gathers a team of interdisciplinary junior social scientists who examine their individual identity as being shaped by specific social contexts such as nationality, class, and race, to scrutinize how their interests as social scientists are responses to such contexts and culturally specific circumstances (Part II). Acknowledging the limits of economic, organizational, and technological modernization at the national level, planetary sociology delineates the type of critical social, political, cultural, and environmental reflexivity required for "progress," "health," and "development" to be meaningful categories.</p><p>Including contributions from senior scholars in the field who do not rely on the paradigm of planetary Sociology (Part III), this volume of <em>Current Perspectives in Social Theory</em> illustrates the importance of scrutinizing links between individual identity and social structure, without employing the paradigm of planetary sociology. Taken together, the chapters in this volume are essential reading for both undergraduate and graduate students eager to understand a rigorous social-research mindset, along with professionalization, methodology, and theoretical orientation, and related applications. Presenting an opportunity for social theorists and social scientists to learn about the challenges faced by younger sociologists, the examples of "applied theory" included here emphasize the importance of critical self-reflexivity in and for the 21st century, and the challenges it represents to social scientists, theorists, researchers, and teachers.</p>
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Centrality Of Sociality - Responses To Michael E. Brown’S The Concept Of The Social In Uniting The Social Sciences And The Humanities

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 <p>What do we mean by the word "social?" In <em>The Centrality of Sociality</em>, scholars respond to themes of <em>The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities </em>in dialogue with Michael E. Brown.</p><p><em>The Centrality of Sociality</em> provides analyses of important distinctions between individual and society, agency-dependent and agency-independent objectivity, subject and object, theory and theorizing, and action and "course of activity." Apart from its theoretical interest, the book raises questions about the compelling idea that "the individual is the ultimate referent of moral discourse," formulating the question "what is human about human affairs" in such a way that the difficulties involved in defining the word <em>individual</em> appear to place in jeopardy the idea of the individual. The chapters analyze themes such as the conceptualization of the social vis-a-vis the individual, theories of action, and notions of subject-object relations.</p><p>A thought-provoking collection of research, this edited volume is key reading for scholars and researchers in sociology.</p>
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Mad Hazard - A Life In Social Theory

by Stephen Turner

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 <p><em>Mad Hazard</em> is a memoir of the career and life of Stephen Turner, chronicling a life in social theory. Showcasing how Turner’s later work on expertise, tacit knowledge, cognitive science, leadership, and liberal democracy developed out of his early interests, this volume describes the institutional and personal constraints and pressures, as well as the personal relationships, that facilitated and shaped an academic career.</p><p>From Turner’s childhood in the racially violent South Side of Chicago, the development of his interests in social theory, through to his education in the shadow of the war in Vietnam and a period of social and personal turmoil, this biographical work shows us not only the development of academic thinking, but the evolution of an academic career. The rebellion within sociology against the hegemonic Merton-Parsons conception of sociology and the methodological orthodoxies of the time leads through to a discussion of the philosophy of science and social science, and from there to a reassessment of the inherited view of the classics, to science studies, and to political and international relations theory - the comprehensive nature of <em>Mad Hazard</em> means the reader can truly understand how Turner’s academic journey evolved.</p><p>Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, <em>Mad Hazard</em> is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present university.</p>
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Society In Flux - Two Centuries Of Social Theory

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 <p>The defining feature of modern society is change - it never rests or provides its members or researchers the comfort and certainty of having attained an adequate understanding of its operations, how it functions, or where it is. <em>Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory</em> traces how tensions between order, process, structure and agency, and modes of analyzing them have evolved over the last two centuries.</p><p>Understanding that modern society is perpetually in flux, albeit not across the board, but in different regards at different times, and in different locations or regions, this volume delves into three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory - each representing a different level of reflexivity and a particular way of approaching modern societies. The authors discuss globally known theorists such as August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Karl Marx, Emil Lederer, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, and Niklas Luhmann to present perspectives, analyses, and insights that refer to and are relevant in the social world today.</p>
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Challenge Of Progress - Theory Between Critique And Ideology

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 Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic of progress in modern societies, at all levels of social structure and complexity. <div><br></div><div>In <i>The Challenge of Progress</i>, editor Harry F. Dahms and a series of contributors explore how this doubt has been magnified, looking at how the institutions and constellations between business, labor and government have begun to weaken. The essays included in this volume examine the foundations, nature and contradictions of progress in the modern era. Anchored by - but not exclusively focused on - a debate of Amy Allen''s recent book, <i>The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory</i> (2016), the eleven essays identify, analyse and confront the challenges of progress, looking across social class, philosophy, history and culture in their analyses. </div><div><br></div><div>For researchers and students across social theory, this is an unmissable volume confronting the present and future of our societies. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of "progress"? </div>
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Challenge Of Progress - Theory Between Critique And Ideology

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 Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. In recent decades, this has cast doubt over the validity and reliability of many working assumptions about the nature and logic of progress in modern societies, at all levels of social structure and complexity. <div><br></div><div>In <i>The Challenge of Progress</i>, editor Harry F. Dahms and a series of contributors explore how this doubt has been magnified, looking at how the institutions and constellations between business, labor and government have begun to weaken. The essays included in this volume examine the foundations, nature and contradictions of progress in the modern era. Anchored by - but not exclusively focused on - a debate of Amy Allen''s recent book, <i>The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory</i> (2016), the eleven essays identify, analyse and confront the challenges of progress, looking across social class, philosophy, history and culture in their analyses. </div><div><br></div><div>For researchers and students across social theory, this is an unmissable volume confronting the present and future of our societies. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of "progress"? </div>
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Reconstructing Social Theory, History And Practice

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 With regard to developments in social theory, the past 30 years can be characterized as an Age of Deconstruction. Inspired by post-structuralism, postmodernism, critical theory, and science studies, as well as combinations of related approaches, theorists have endeavored to shatter historical meta-narratives and struggled to include previously excluded standpoints in social thought. This important trend has informed our understanding of the role of discourse, difference and expertise in determining relations of power and inequality. This volume focusses on "Reconstruction", dedicated to taking account of and interrogating the possibility of picking up the pieces. The papers were presented at the 2015 International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC). It considers questions such as, are there limits to the deconstruction project, and have these limits been reached? What are the possibilities for the reconstruction of narratives of long-term historical change? Is it possible to include and integrate the insights and contribution of various critiques of knowledge, while at the same time developing new forms of knowledge?
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Globalization, Critique And Social Theory - Diagnoses And Challenges

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 In recent years, under the impression and the burden of globalization and neoliberalism, debates about the relationship between the theory and practice of progress - including the theory and practice of social critique - have gone through an unexpected and momentous revival, renewal and rejuvenation.
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States And Citizens - Accommodation, Facilitation And Resistance To Globalization

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 This volume examines how states and citizens have been able to address globalization in different ways across the Global North and South. Authors examine the state as it forms policies in agro-production, contends with critical constituencies, and rebuilds capacity to act in the popular interest after forty years of neoliberal assault.
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Social Theories Of History And Histories Of Social Theory

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 Representing a range of approaches and emphases, the chapters in this volume address and illustrate linkages between social theory and history; social theory and historical analysis as mutually supportive frames of analysis, and affinities between the history of social thought and the history of modern societies.
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Theorizing Modern Society As A Dynamic Process

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 Emphasis is placed in Continental European social theory, and on the importance of political analyses to theorizing modern societies. This title focuses on dynamic processes that gave way to illuminate structural features of modern social life.
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Nature, Knowledge And Negation

by Harry F. Dahms

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 Places emphasis on developments in the social theory of environmental issues, the environment, and the environmental crisis. This also emphasises on the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, distraction from key issues, and dilution of the idea of objectivity.
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No Social Science Without Critical Theory

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 Highlights the problematic nature of mainstream perspectives, and the growing need to reaffirm how the specific kind of critique the early Frankfurt School theorists advocated is not less, but far more important today. This book also includes chapters that offer a broad and diverse look at social science and critical theory.
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The Future Of Agency - Between Autonomy And Heteronomy

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 Leading scholars address the multifaceted concept of agency, dissecting its significance, applications, and challenges across various domains, and situate agency in changing socio-historical contexts.
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Planetary Sociology - Beyond The Entanglement Of Identity And Social Structure

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 Including contributions from senior scholars in the field who do not rely on the paradigm of planetary Sociology, this volume of Current Perspectives in Social Theory illustrates the importance of scrutinizing links between individual identity and social structure, without employing the paradigm of planetary sociology.
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The Challenge Of Progress - Theory Between Critique And Ideology

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 Globalization has accelerated the process of social, political, cultural, and especially economic transformations since the 1990s. Examining the choices of modern society, Dahms and contributors ask: what are the social costs of â€œprogressâ€?
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The Centrality Of Sociality - Responses To Michael E. Brownâ€™S The Concept Of The Social In Uniting The Social Sciences And The Humanities

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 What do we mean by the word â€œsocial?â€ In The Centrality of Sociality, scholars respond to themes of The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Social Sciences and Humanities in dialogue with Michael E. Brown.
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Self-Knowledge And Knowledge Management Applications

by Beverly (Edify It, Usa) Weed-Schertzer

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 Defining and explaining how Self-Knowledge enhances the application of different knowledge types when used both independently and collectively, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge Management Applications is essential reading for professionals and students across multiple disciplines from business and management to strategy and technology.
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Mad Hazard - A Life In Social Theory

by Stephen (University Of South Florida, Usa) Turner

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 Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present university.
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Anxiety In Relationship: Proven Techniqu - Proven Techniques To Overcome Couple Conflicts. Stop Negative Thinking And Finally Enhance Your Communication Skills.

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Society In Flux - Two Centuries Of Social Theory

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 Society in Flux: Two Centuries of Social Theory traces how modern tensions and modes of analyzing them have changed over the course of the last 200 years or so, through three modes of theorizing: critical theory, classical theory, and systems theory.
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Reconstructing Social Theory, History And Practice

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 Taken from papers presented at the 2015 International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC), this volume focusses on â€œReconstructionâ€, dedicated to taking account of and interrogating the possibility of picking up the pieces.
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States And Citizens - Accommodation, Facilitation And Resistance To Globalization

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 This volume examines how states and citizens have been able to address globalization in different ways across the Global North and South. Authors examine the state as it forms policies in agro-production, contends with critical constituencies, and rebuilds capacity to act in the popular interest after forty years of neoliberal assault.
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