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Social theory as politics in knowledge /
This volume discusses, and manifests, three interrelated perspectives in social theory. First, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is theoretical: there are alternative perspectives, or theories, about any phenomenon. Second, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge is poli...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
JAI,
2005.
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| Colección: | Current perspectives in social theory ;
v. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- front cover
- table of contents
- Editorial Board
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- From A Marxist Native Daughter
- Introduction Notes
- Part I: Before and Beneath other Conflicts: Fourth World Social Theory
- About that Bering Strait Land Bridge ... A Study in the Falsity of ''Scientific Truth''
- Education as Cultural Imperialism
- Origins of a Scientific Myth
- The Enforcement of Orthodoxy
- A Few Problems of Chronology
- Paleoenvironmental Considerations
- Recent Revisions
- On the Matter of mtDNA
- That Man from Kennewick
- Lost Tribes (Again), and Sunken Continents
- The View from Native North America
- Toward a New Synthesis of Understanding
- Chapter 1 Notes
- Part II: A Contemporary Argument ''For Social Theory''
- For Social Theory: Alvin Gouldner's Last Project and Beyond
- Normative Reflexivity and Social Rupture: Social Theory Contra Technocracy
- Between Science and Politics: Social Theory as Refuge and Mediator
- From Philosophy to Social Theory: Gouldner's Return to Critical Theory
- An End to Ideology?: Electronic Media and One-Dimensional Culture
- The Carrier of Critical Rationality?: The ''New Class'' and ''Culture of Critical Discourse''
- After Absolutism: Ideology as Proto-Social Theory
- Social Theory Beyond Politics: Uncertainty, Reflexivity, and the Sociological Moment
- The Community of Social Theorists: Post-Traditional Voice of the Sacred?
- Nightmare Marxism: Gouldner's Tragic Side
- Promethean Theorists/Spectator Theories: Gouldner's Incomplete Pragmatic Turn
- After Gouldner: Cultural Fragmentation and The Future of Social Theory
- Chapter 2 Notes
- Chapter 2 References
- Part III: Contemporary Conflicts over Social Policy Argued in Social Theory
- The Mayberry Machiavellians In Power: A Critical Analysis of the Bush Administration through a Synthesis of Machiavelli, Goffman, and Foucault
- Introduction
- Exercising and Retaining Power Requires Strategies to Structure Relationships
- The Bush Administration as Machiavellian Dramaturgists
- Matrixes of Power, Knowledge, and Violence Subject Minds and Bodies to Techniques of Population Control
- The Bush Administration and Techniques of Population Control
- Power Relations use Moral Discourse and Produce Moral Subjects
- The Bush Administration's use of Moral Discourse and Production of Moral Subjects
- Chapter 3 Discussion
- Chapter 3 Notes
- Chapter 3 References
- Globalization or Hyper-Alienation? Critiques of Traditional Marxism as Arguments for Basic income
- Social Policy in the Modern Age: In the Interest of Maintaining Order
- The Culmination of Modern Trends: Globalization AS Hyper-Alienation
- Reformist Social Policies and the Welfare State: A Dead End?
- Captives of the Glass Casing: Hyper-Alienation as Normalcy
- Beyond the Welfare State: ''Universal Basic Income'' As a Superior Social Policy?
- Reinterpreting Marx: Two Critiques of Traditional Marxism
- Alienation Omnipresent: Critical Theory, Basic Income, and Sociol.