The Active Society
Author | : Amitai Etzioni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Political sociology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Amitai Etzioni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Political sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilson C. McWilliams |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780742549159 |
The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. In this new collection of essays, Wilson Carey McWilliams brings together scholars in a range of disciplines to analyze the significance and shortcomings of this important work.
Author | : Mikael Holmqvist |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317035801 |
Across the traditional welfare states of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada there has been increasing emphasis on 'activation' by the unemployed as a tool for fighting unemployment. The core idea of activation programmes is the integration and empowerment of jobseekers through active work-related measures rather than passive income support. However, the empirical evidence of the efficacy of activation programmes is far from conclusive and there have been no systematic studies of the effects of activation programmes on the lives of the unemployed people who come into contact with them. This book is based on a detailed ethnographic study of the highly praised Swedish rehabilitation organization Samhall. The result is a key volume for those working and studying within welfare, poverty, disability and special needs.
Author | : Amitai Etzion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jan Dobbernack |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137338849 |
Across Europe the protection of 'social cohesion' has become an important political objective. This book draws attention to the connection between the cohesive society and the active society. It explores France, Germany and the United Kingdom and challenges the claim that the active conduct of problematic populations can save society from collapse.
Author | : Piotr Sztompka |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1991-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226788159 |
In Society in Action, Piotr Sztompka sets forth a highly topical contribution to central theoretical debates of contemporary sociology. Taking the idea and practice of collective mobilization as his theme, Sztompka argues that modern institutions, particularly of late, are characterized by an increasing awareness of collective empowerment. The most obvious concrete expression of this phenomenon, as Sztompka makes clear, is the rise of a diversity of active social movements such as those which dramatically transformed Europe in the 1980s, from the birth of Solidarity in 1980 to the 1989 "Autumn of Nations." Sztompka connects the interpretations of such collective activity to a wider grasp of the nature of social action. The result is a comprehensive and original theory of social change which focuses on the self-transforming influence on society of its members' striving for freedom, autonomy, and self-fulfillment. He develops his theory by means of a general concept of "social becoming," the roots of which he traces to the early romantic and humanist work of Karl Marx and his followers and to two influential sociological schools of today, the theory of agency and historical sociology. Sztompka situates his theory midway between the rigid determinism of social totalities and the unbridled voluntarism of free individuals. Social change, he demonstrates, can be understood neither as the outcome of individual actions taken alone nor as structurally determined actions. Instead, he confers upon social organizations and movements a "self-transcending" quality: they express human agency yet, by virtue of their active character, are quite often able to achieve unpredictable outcomes. Throughout his analysis of social movements and revolutions in history, Sztompka emphasizes the dynamics of spontaneous social change generated from below—a theoretical testimony to the rapid and fundamental social change in Eastern Europe in recent history. Against the fashions of postmodernist malaise, boredom, and disenchantment, his theory of social becoming expresses the possibility of emancipation, of change leading to positive gains. His work registers a belief in progress, not inevitably gained, but its attainment fully dependent upon the creativity and optimism of an active citizenry.
Author | : Agnihotri Satwati |
Publisher | : Mittal Publications |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Behavior therapy |
ISBN | : 9788170998051 |
Author | : Andrew Cornell |
Publisher | : AK Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2019-02-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1849350671 |
Where do the tactics, strategies, and lifestyles of today's activists come from? Many ways of doing radical politics pioneered by Movement for a New Society in the 1970s and 1980s have become central to anti-authoritarian social movements: consensus decision making, spokescouncils, communal living, unlearning oppressive behavior, and co-operatively owned businesses. Andrew Cornell's important contribution to US political history uses this story to raise crucial questions for activists today. Oppose and Propose is an engaging and accessible study, every page offers new insights. Andrew Cornell's work appears in Letters from Young Activists and The University Against Itself. He helps produce the quarterly anti-capitalist magazine Left Turn.
Author | : Guy Debord |
Publisher | : Bread and Circuses Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1617508306 |
The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.
Author | : Amitai Etzioni |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1994-05-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0671885243 |
Explains how Americans need to develop or restore a sense of community in order to reconstruct society.