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El. knyga: Social Theory for Alternative Societies

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(University of Glasgow, Glasgow City)
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  • Leidėjas: Red Globe Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781137337344
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This book traces a unique story of social theory: one which focuses on its role in offering ideas for alternative societies. In charting this story, Matt Dawson argues that the differences in alternatives offered by social theorists not only demonstrate the diversity in, and value of, sociological perspectives, but also emphasize competing ideas of the role of intellectuals in social change.

The text discusses a collection of social theorists from key figures such as Marx, Durkheim and Du Bois to less well known or now commonly overlooked writers such as Levitas, Lefebvre and Mannheim. It explains their use of the tools of sociology to critique society and provide visions for alternatives, highlighting elements of the intellectual backgrounds of movements such as socialism, anti-racism, feminism and cosmopolitanism.

Social Theory for Alternative Societies not only explores in detail a variety of thinkers, but also reflects on the relevance of sociology today and on the connection between social theory and the 'real world.' Thus it will be of interest to students of sociology and those interested in ideas for a better society.

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'Original, intriguing and accessible. Sociologists often criticise the world. Immersed in a range of perspectives and themes, Dawson tells us what they think the alternative is' -Luke Martell, University of Sussex, UK. 'If the study of society does not start from a repudiation of the obscenity of today's world and a search for alternatives, it is worse than pointless, it is complicit. Placing the search for alternatives in the centre of a broad survey of the discipline, this book is original and welcome.' -John Holloway, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. 'Beyond being a sensitive reader and effective communicator of social theory, Dawson demonstrates well the effective history of these ideas... This is an engaging work which will have wide appeal, and is a timely rejoinder to accusations of abstraction, resignation and irrelevance aimed at social theory.' - Jack Palmer, University of Leeds.

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Original, intriguing and accessible. Sociologists often criticise the world. Immersed in a range of perspectives and themes, Dawson tells us what they think the alternative is' -Luke Martell, University of Sussex, UK. 'If the study of society does not start from a repudiation of the obscenity of today's world and a search for alternatives, it is worse than pointless, it is complicit. Placing the search for alternatives in the centre of a broad survey of the discipline, this book is original and welcome.' -John Holloway, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. 'Beyond being a sensitive reader and effective communicator of social theory, Dawson demonstrates well the effective history of these ideas... This is an engaging work which will have wide appeal, and is a timely rejoinder to accusations of abstraction, resignation and irrelevance aimed at social theory.' - Jack Palmer, University of Leeds.
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1(6)
1 Should Sociologists Offer Alternatives? Value-Free and Critical Sociologies
7(17)
Normativity and sociology
7(1)
Max Weber: the value dispute
8(6)
The Becker/Gouldner debate
14(4)
Further writings on value-freedom
18(2)
Critical sociology
20(2)
Conclusion
22(2)
2 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: `Recipes for the Cook-Shops of the Future'
24(20)
Marx and Engels' critique
25(3)
The wastefulness of capitalism
28(1)
The revolution
29(1)
Marx and Engels' alternative: communism
30(12)
Conclusion; would Marxist communism solve the problems of capitalism?
42(2)
3 Emile Durkheim: Curing the Malaise
44(18)
Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method and critique
45(2)
Durkheim's critique: the `malaise'
47(6)
Durkheim's alternatives
53(7)
Conclusion
60(2)
4 W.E.B. Du Bois: A Black Radical Alternative
62(17)
Du Bois' early life and key concepts
62(2)
Du Bois' early critique: The Philadelphia Negro
64(3)
Du Bois' first alternative: the Talented Tenth and education
67(1)
Du Bois' turn to activism
68(2)
Du Bois' second critique: the legacy of the civil war
70(2)
Du Bois' second alternative: black economic cooperation
72(4)
Du Bois' later years and his socialism
76(1)
Conclusion: Du Bois' alternatives
77(2)
5 George Herbert Mead and Karl Mannheim: Sociology and Democracy
79(21)
George Herbert Mead
80(2)
Mead's critique: narrow `personality' democracy
82(2)
Mead's alternative: rational democracy through scientific reform
84(4)
Assessing Mead's activities as alternatives
88(1)
Karl Mannheim
89(2)
Mannheim's critique: laissez-faire mass society
91(2)
Mannheim's alternative: The Third Way
93(3)
Sociology in a militant democracy
96(1)
Conclusion: Mead and Mannheim on democracy
97(3)
6 Henri Lefebvre and Herbert Marcuse: Neo-Marxist Alternatives
100(21)
Henri Lefebvre
101(2)
Lefebvre's critique: everyday life as alienation
103(3)
Lefebvre's alternative: autogestion
106(2)
Would Lefebvre's alternative solve the problems?
108(1)
Herbert Marcuse
109(1)
Marcuse's critique: the repressive totalitarian-technological stage of capitalism
110(2)
Marcuse's potential liberation: the Utopian potentials of capitalism
112(1)
Marcuse's transition: the Great Refusal
113(2)
The new sensibility
115(1)
Marcuse's alternative: a society based upon the new sensibility
116(2)
Conclusion: comparing Lefebvre and Marcuse
118(3)
7 Selma James, Andrea Dworkin and Their Interlocutors: Feminist Alternatives
121(20)
Feminist alternatives
122(2)
Wages for housework
124(3)
Would wages for housework lessen patriarchy?
127(3)
Banning pornography
130(1)
The feminist critique of pornography
130(2)
Contemporary anti-pornography feminism
132(2)
The alternative: `MacDworkin' and the campaign to ban pornography
134(2)
Feminist critics of banning pornography
136(3)
Conclusion
139(2)
8 Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck: Cosmopolitan Alternatives
141(21)
Anthony Giddens
143(1)
Giddens' late modern world
143(2)
Giddens' critique: the emergence of life politics
145(2)
Giddens' alternative: generative politics in The Third Way
147(2)
Giddens' solution and being a public intellectual
149(2)
Ulrich Beck
151(1)
Beck's second modern risk society
152(3)
Beck's critique: methodological nationalist sociology and society
155(1)
Beck's alternative: a cosmopolitan world
156(4)
Conclusion: the alternatives of Giddens and Beck
160(2)
9 Sociology and Utopia
162(18)
The history of sociology and utopianism
163(1)
Ruth Levitas: Utopia as the imaginary reconstruction of society
164(2)
Sociology as Utopia and Utopia as sociology
166(2)
Levitas' Utopian reading of government discourse under neoliberalism
168(2)
Erik Olin Wright: Marxist utopianism
170(1)
Real Utopias
171(2)
The basic income
173(2)
Criticisms of the basic income
175(3)
Conclusion: the relationship between sociology and Utopia
178(2)
10 Public Sociology
180(18)
Burawoy's case for public sociology
181(2)
Doing public sociology
183(3)
Public sociology in sociological alternatives
186(3)
Criticisms of public sociology
189(5)
Conclusion; the case of Pierre Bourdieu
194(4)
Conclusion: Sociology and Alternatives 198(8)
Bibliography 206(21)
Index 227
Matt Dawson is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of Late Modernity, Individualization and Socialism: An Associational Critique of Neoliberalism (2013, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Stretching the Sociological Imagination: Essays in Honour of John Eldridge (2015, Palgrave Macmillan).
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