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  • Alexander, Jeffrey C.
  • Hoboken : Taylor and Francis  (9)
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  • 1
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    Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Max Weber (2014)
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    ISBN: 1306708249 , 9780415738934 , 9781306708241
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (262 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Max Weber
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: 〈P〉The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weaknesses and efforts at 'paradigm revision'. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Volume Three; Chapter One: Weber's Early Writings: Tentative Explorations beyond Idealism and Materialism; 1. The Historical and Ideological Background for Weber's Synthesis; 2. The Intellectual Background for Weber's Synthesis; 3. The Theoretical Achievement: Multidimensional Elements in Weber's Early Writings; 4. Conclusion: Theoretical Underdevelopment and Sociological Ambivalence; Chapter Two: The Later Writings and Weber's Multidimensional Theory of Society
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Synthetic Approach to Action and Order2. Multidimensional Theory and Comparative Method; 3. The Normative Definition of Rationality: Religion in the Comparative Studies; 4. Beyond Durkheim's Idealist Reduction: The Normative and Instrumental Determination of Religious Evolution; 5. Beyond Marx's Materialist Reduction: The Multidimensional Analysis of Social Class; 6. Normative Order and Empirical Conflict: The Multidimensional Analysis of Urban Revolution; 7. Conclusion: On the Generalized and Analytic Interpretation of Weber's Achievement
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: The Retreat from Multidimensionality (1): Presuppositional Dichotomization in the "Religious" Writings1. The Negative Case of The Religion of China; 2. Ancient Judaism as the Multidimensional Alternative; 3. Conclusion; Chapter Four: The Retreat from Multidimensionality (2): Instrumental Reduction in the "Political" Writings; 1. The Evolution from "Legitimation" to ""Domination" in the Formal Writings; 2. The Elaboration of Instrumental Domination in the Substantive Political History; 2.1. Charisma as a Framework for Domination
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. The Instrumental Struggle for Traditional Domination and Its Transition to a Rational-Legal Form3. Conclusion: "Knowing Better" and the Imperatives of Theoretical Logic; Chapter Five: Legal-Rational Domination and the Utilitarian Structure of Modern Life; 1. Bureaucracy: The Impersonal Form of Hierarchical Control; 2. Democracy: The Inclusion of the Personal Struggle for Power; 3. Law: The External Reference of Formalized Norms; 4. Stratification: The Instrumental Competition for Generalized Means
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. A Liberal in Despair: The Ideological Moment in Weber's Instrumental Reduction of ModernityChapter Six: Weber Interpretation and Weberian Sociology: "Paradigm Revision" and Presuppositional Strain; Notes; Works of Weber; Author-Citation Index; Subject Index
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  • 2
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    The Antinomies of Classical Thought (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415724227
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (592 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx's very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim's case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to Volume Two; Chapter One: Prolegomena. General Theoretical Argument as Interpretation: The Critical Role of "Readings"; Part One Collective Order and the Ambiguity about Action; Chapter Two: Marx's First Phase (1): From Moral Criticism to External Necessity; 1. Reduction and Conflation in Marxist Interpretation; 2. "Early Writings"": From Normative Tension to Utilitarian Calculation; 2.1. Moral Criticism and the Appeal to Universal Norms: The Starting Point
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. Natural Necessity and the Appeal to Self Interest: The Initial Transition2.3. Alienation and the Submission to Material Order: The Ambivalent Acceptance of Political Economy in the 1844 Manuscripts; 2.3.1. The Challenge of the "Theses on Feuerbach": Philosophical Multidimensionality Reaffirmed as Species-Being; 2.3.2. The Tentative Solution: "Natural Man" and the Instrumental Logic of Political Economy; 2.3.3. The Hanging Thread: The Subjective Foundations of Alienation and the Problem of the Transition to Communism
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: Marx's First Phase (2): The Attack on Moral Criticism and the Origins of a Historical Materialism1. The Years of Transition; 1.1. The Attack on Cultural "Generality" and the End of Philosophy; 1.2. Transforming the Status of "Alienation": The Attack on Subjectivity in the Transition to Communism; 1.3. The Residual Category of Later Marxism: Inexplicable Normative Action; 2. Maturity: Rational Action and Coercive Order in The Communist Manifesto; 3. Conclusion: Interpretive Errors and Marx's True Contribution
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Four: Durkheim's First Phase (1): The Ambiguous Transition from Voluntary Morality to Morality as External Constraint1. Reduction and Conflation in Durkheimian Interpretation; 2. Durkheim's Early Writings: The Unsuccessful Search for Voluntary Morality; 2.1. Social Crisis and the Search for a Responsive Collectivism; 2.2. The Critique of Classical Economy: Morality as the Collectivist Alternative; 2.3. Durkheim's Contradictory Approaches to Moral Order: Theoretical Ambivalence and the Movement toward an Antivoluntaristic Determinism
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.3.1. The Problem of Action: Durkheim's Ambiguous Critique of Egoistic Rationality2.3.2. The Problem of Order: The Tortuous Path toward Collective Control; 2.4. Involuntary Morality and Durkheim's First Sociology; 2.5. Conclusion: Mechanical Order and Durkheim's Relation to the Instrumentalist Tradition; Chapter Five: Durkheim's First Phase (2): The Division of Labor in Society as the Attempt to Reconcile Instrumental Order with Freedom; 1. "Material Individualism" as the Antidote to Mechanical Order: The Division of Labor in the Early Sociological Essays
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Empirical Discovery and Theoretical Ambivalence in The Division of Labor in Society
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  • 3
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    Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415738927
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (257 p)
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Table of Contents; Chapter One: Theoretical Logic in Scientific Thought; 1. Introduction: Scientific Thought as a Two-Directional Continuum; 2. The Positivist Persuasion in Social Science: The Reduction of Theory to Fact; 3. The Failure of the "Human Studies" Alternative to Social Scientific Positivism; 4. Toward an Alternative Conception of Science; 4.1. Early Foundations; 4.2. Contemporary Elaborations
    Description / Table of Contents: 5. The Postpositivist Persuasion: Rehabilitation of the Theoretical6. Conclusion: The Need for a General Theoretical Logic in Sociology; Chapter Two: Theoretical Logic in Sociological Thought (1): The Failure of Contemporary Debate to Achieve Generality; 1. The Reduction of General Logic to Political Commitment: The Debate over Ideology; 2. The Reduction of General Logic to Methodological Choice: The Debate over Positivism; 3. The Reduction of General Logic to Empirical Proposition: The Debate over Conflict; 4. The Reduction of General Logic to Model Selection: The Debate over Functionalism
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Three: Theoretical Logic in Sociological Thought (2): Toward the Restoration of Generality1. The Epistemological Reference for Generalized Sociological Argument; 2. The Generalized Problem of Action; 2.1. The Presupposition of Rationality: ""Instrumental" Action and the Reduction of Ends to Means; 2.2. The Presupposition of Nonrationality: "Normative"" Action and the Relative Autonomy of Ends; 2.3. Other Approaches to Rationality and the Problem of Theoretical Reduction; 2.3.1. Rationality as Means/End Calculation; 2.3.2. Rationality as the Achievement of Particular Ends
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. The Generalized Problem of Order3.1. The Conflationary Dimensions of Current Approaches to Order: Empirical, Ideological, and Presuppositional Reduction; 3.2. The Individualist Presupposition in Its Instrumental and Normative Forms: Social Order as Residual Category; 3.3. The Collectivist Presupposition in Its Rationalist Form: Coercive Order and the Elimination of Freedom; 3.4. The Collectivist Presupposition in Its Normative Form; 3.4.1. Social Constraint and the Preservation of Voluntarism; 3.4.2. Voluntarism, Constraint, and the Reification of the Free Will Concept
    Description / Table of Contents: 3.4.3. Voluntary Order and the Problem of Sociological IdealismChapter Four: Theoretical Logic as Objective Argument; 1. Objective Evaluation through Universal Reference: The "Structural" Status of Action and Order; 2. Objective Evaluation through Synthetic Standards: The Scope and Mutual Autonomy of Action and Order; 3. Objective Evaluation through Explicit Hierarchical Judgment: The Need for a Multidimensional Approach to Action and Order; Notes; Author-Citation Index; Subject Index
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  • 4
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    Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Talcott Parsons (2014)
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    ISBN: 9780415738965
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (559 p)
    Series Statement: Theoretical Logic in Sociology
    Parallel Title: Print version Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) : Talcott Parsons
    DDC: 301
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    Abstract: 〈P〉In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation. 〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface: Theoretical Thought and Its Vicissitudes: The Achievements and Limitations of Classical Sociology; Chapter One: Theoretical Controversy and the Problematics of Parsonian Interpretation; Chapter Two: The Early Period: Interpretation and the Presuppositional Movement toward Multidimensionality; 1. Percept and Precept: Postpositivist Aspects of Parsons' Meta-Methodology; 2. Precepts as Presuppositions: The Synthetic Intention; 2.1. The Multidimensional Approach to Action
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.2. The Multidimensional Approach to Collective Order3. Later Refinements of Multidimensional Order; 3.1. Generalization-Specification; 3.2. The Cybernetic Continuum; 3.3. Beyond the Classics; 4. Symbolic Order and Internalization: Later Refinements of the Voluntarism Problem; 5. Conclusion: ""Systematic Theory"" and Its Ecumenical Ambition; Chapter Three: The Middle Period: Specifying the Multidimensional Argument; 1. ""Specification"" and the Stages of Theoretical Development; 2. The Empirical Essays and the Pattern-Variable Critique of Instrumental Rationality
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Empirical Specification of Multidimensionality in the Later-Middle Work3.1. Personality, Culture, Society; 3.2. Allocation and Integration; 3.3. The Basic Structural Formations of Societies; 3.4. The Pattern Variables in Systemic Context; 3.5. Conclusion: The Social System and Its Critics; 4. The Change Theory and the Vicissitudes of Western Development; 4.1. The General Multidimensional Theory; 4.2. Rationalization, Anomie, and Revolution; 4.3. The Deviance Paradigm: Reformulating Strain and Its Control; 4.4. Conclusion: The Change Theory and Its Critics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter Four: The Later Period (1): The Interchange Model and Parsons' Final Approach to Multidimensional Theory1. Interchange and Its Presuppositional Logic; 1.1. The Problem of Interpretation; 1.2. The Limitations of Parsons' Middle-Period Theorizing; 1.3. The Focus of Interchange: Refining the Multidimensional Model; 2. Economics as Interchange: Elaborating the Critique of Classical Economics; 3. Politics as Interchange; 3.1. Refining the Multidimensional Conceptualization; 3.2. Politics and the Combinatorial Process; 3.3. Beyond the Classics: Parsons' Durkheim-Weber Synthesis
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Integration as Interchange: ""Solidarity"" beyond Idealism4.1. Integration Defined: Solidarity and the Logic of Interchange; 4.2. The Nature of Solidary Interchange; 4.3. The Historical Production of Citizenship Solidarity; 4.4. The Interchange Theory of Integration and the Limitations of Parsons' Classical Predecessors; 5. Interchange and the Respecification of Parsons' Value Theory; 5.1. Value Interchange and the Differentiation of Scope; 5.2. ""Rationality"" and the University: Interchange, Value Specification, and Conflict; 5.3. The Value Theory and Its Critics
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.4. Multidimensional Values and the Dialogue with Durkheim and Weber
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    Introduction To Race Relations (2012)
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    ISBN: 9781850007609
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (233 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Introduction To Race Relations
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This is the second edition of the textbook on race and ethnic relations, which has been adopted by academic and vocational courses and which is designed to be a straightforward introduction to this field of study. It retains all the original features, but reflects on events over the years since its original publication, incorporating accounts of developments in the UK and USA. Suggestions for further readings are revised in the light of the latest research.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Introduction to Race Relations; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction to second edition; 2 Race-power-prejudice; That remarkable urge; Sources: from the Bible to Darwin; All great civilizations…; Race and capitalism; Prejudice; 3 Laws-labour-migration; The empire; A reserve army; Policy of surrender; From the massive to the substantial; Swamped?; 4 Work-class-inequality; Centre and periphery; No way out and up; Unions; Asian prosperity: a hollow façade; Positive discrimination; 5 Cities-space-politics; Living for the city; Voluntary segregation?; Urban ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: Consumption, crisis and struggleA no-win moral game; 6 Education-culture-disadvantage; The one good thing about Britain?; IQ: the lethal label; Repairing the child; Busing; MRE: life styles, life chances; 7 Ethnicity-youth-resistance; People united; The mystique of whiteness; Asian myth; Two different people; Babylon's burnin'; 8 Massacres-conspiracies-fascists; The fascist revival; Tilling the soil of prejudice; Young bulldogs; KKK: the invisible empire; 9 Media-racism-reality; The sambo type; Those whom the gods wish to destroy; Beyond the pale?; The copycat effect; News value
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 ConclusionThe next stage; Vicious circle; References; Name Index; Subject Index; Title Index
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    Sports Culture : An A-Z Guide (2003)
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    ISBN: 9780415181693
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (522 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Sports Culture : An A-Z Guide
    DDC: 306.483
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    Abstract: 〈I〉Sports Culture〈/I〉 examines individual issues people, artefacts, events and organizations in their historical, social and cultural contexts. Coverage is wide-ranging with more than 170 entries
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editorial team; Introduction; Acknowledgments; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Index
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    Introduction To Race Relations (2003)
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    ISBN: 9781850007593
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (233 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Introduction To Race Relations
    DDC: 305.8
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    Abstract: 〈P〉This is the second edition of the textbook on race and ethnic relations, which has been adopted by academic and vocational courses and which is designed to be a straightforward introduction to this field of study. It retains all the original features, but reflects on events over the years since its original publication, incorporating accounts of developments in the UK and USA. Suggestions for further readings are revised in the light of the latest research.〈/P〉
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Introduction to Race Relations; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction to second edition; 2 Race-power-prejudice; That remarkable urge; Sources: from the Bible to Darwin; All great civilizations…; Race and capitalism; Prejudice; 3 Laws-labour-migration; The empire; A reserve army; Policy of surrender; From the massive to the substantial; Swamped?; 4 Work-class-inequality; Centre and periphery; No way out and up; Unions; Asian prosperity: a hollow façade; Positive discrimination; 5 Cities-space-politics; Living for the city; Voluntary segregation?; Urban ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: Consumption, crisis and struggleA no-win moral game; 6 Education-culture-disadvantage; The one good thing about Britain?; IQ: the lethal label; Repairing the child; Busing; MRE: life styles, life chances; 7 Ethnicity-youth-resistance; People united; The mystique of whiteness; Asian myth; Two different people; Babylon's burnin'; 8 Massacres-conspiracies-fascists; The fascist revival; Tilling the soil of prejudice; Young bulldogs; KKK: the invisible empire; 9 Media-racism-reality; The sambo type; Those whom the gods wish to destroy; Beyond the pale?; The copycat effect; News value
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 ConclusionThe next stage; Vicious circle; References; Name Index; Subject Index; Title Index
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    And There Was Television (2002)
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    ISBN: 9780415091305
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (231 p)
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    Parallel Title: Print version And There Was Television
    DDC: 302.2345
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    Abstract: Argues that television is the central apparatus of consumer society and its success is measured not in terms of whether we enjoy programs, but how much we spend as a result of watching them. Should be read by anyone who watches television
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; acknowledgements; bombardments and bee stings; a gift arrives; under the influence; the meanings of cultural studies; lethal link; answering advertisers' prayers; ethnic images; in pursuit of women; dream match; arresting viewing; political hype and hyperreality; tomorrow, the world; references; index
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    Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations (2002)
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    ISBN: 9780415138222
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (433 p)
    Edition: 4th ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations
    DDC: 305.8003
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    Abstract: Ethnicity and racial relations are almost universally seen as a prime motivating force behind social conflict and change. Often volatile and complex, racial interaction resonates through all aspects of contemporary society. Social issues which appear to have little connection to race often become entagled with ethnic friction to create far more complex problems. Race is often used by individuals and political organizations to further their own objectives.Since the 1994 publication of the third edition of this acclaimed reference book there have been enormous changes in the area of race and e
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Dictionary; Index
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