ISBN:
9780857242235
,
9780857242242
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 374 p)
,
ill. (some col.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Current perspectives in social theory 27
Series Statement:
Current perspectives in social theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Theorizing the dynamics of social processes
DDC:
303
Keywords:
Social sciences Research
;
Social sciences Philosophy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The chapters in this volume represent steps in the direction of demonstrating the importance of efforts to theorize the dynamics of specific social, cultural, political, and/or economic processes to the social sciences in general. They aim to clarify how those efforts are central to the core mission of each of the social sciences, and how social theory is both especially well positioned to tackle this challenge and to accept responsibility for illuminating related possibilities. Papers address the nature and importance of "process" in studying modern (industrialized, post-industrial
Description / Table of Contents:
Front cover ; Current Perspectives in Social Theory ; Copyright page ; Contents ; Editorial Board ; List of contributors; Introduction; References; Part I: The Dynamics of Process between Social Science and Social Theory ; Chapter 1. On theorizing the dynamics of process: A propaedeutic introduction ; Chapter 2. Affinities between the project of dynamic theory and the tradition of critical theory: A sketch ; Part II: Theorizing Process: Class, Social Inequality, and a New Reading of Marx ; Chapter 3. History and the ''processing'' of class in social theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4. Domination, contention, and the negotiation of inequality: A theoretical proposal Chapter 5. The labor-value relation and its transformations: Revisiting Marx's value theory ; Part III: Theorizing ""Globalization"" ; Chapter 6. Globalization in and out, or ''how can there be a constructivist theory of globalization?'' ; Chapter 7. Conceptualizing globalization in terms of flows ; Part IV: Theorizing Two Specific Social Processes: Anti-Semitism and Architecture ; Chapter 8. Why Nazified Germans killed Jewish people: insights from agent-based modeling of genocidal actions
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9. Economy and field in the rise of postmodern architecture
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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