Social Theory as Politics in Knowledge

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1236-8
Verlag: Jai Press Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

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 political: these alternative perspectives are contested, as they are related to different groups with different interests. Third, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is social: alternative perspectives have alternative social causes and alternative social effects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehmann, Jennifer M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Gesundheitsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Before and Beneath other Conflicts: Fourth World Social Theory. About that Bering Strait Land Bridge Bridge ...A Study in the Falsity of "Scientific Truth". Part II: A Contemporary Argument "For Social Theory".

For Social Theory: Alvin Gouldner's Last Project and Beyond. 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. Globalization or Hyper-Alienation? Critiques of Traditional Marxism as Arguments for Basic Income. Part IV: Religion, Morality, Ethics? In Modernity, Postmodernity? The Conceptual Common Denominator Between Bellah, Giddens and Habermas and its Significance. Reconstructing Zygmunt Bauman's Postmodern Sociology of Morality.
Beyond Negative Rights: Living without Certainty, Social Change and the Possibility of Postmodern Ethics.