Social Theory for Alternative Societies. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Dawson, Matt
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Should Sociologists Offer Alternatives? Value-Free and Critical Sociologies; Normativity and sociology; Max Weber: the value dispute; The Becker/Gouldner debate; Further writings on value-freedom; Critical sociology; Conclusion; 2 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: 'Recipes for the Cook-Shops of the Future'; Marx and Engels' critique; The wastefulness of capitalism; The revolution; Marx and Engels' alternative: communism; Conclusion: would Marxist communism solve the problems of capitalism?; 3 Émile Durkheim: Curing the Malaise. Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method and critiqueDurkheim's critique: the 'malaise'; Durkheim's alternatives; Conclusion; 4 W.E.B. Du Bois: A Black Radical Alternative; Du Bois' early life and key concepts; Du Bois' early critique: The Philadelphia Negro; Du Bois' first alternative: the Talented Tenth and education; Du Bois' turn to activism; Du Bois' second critique: the legacy of the civil war; Du Bois' second alternative: black economic cooperation; Du Bois' later years and his socialism; Conclusion: Du Bois' alternatives; 5 George Herbert Mead and Karl Mannheim: Sociology and Democracy. George Herbert MeadMead's critique: narrow 'personality' democracy; Mead's alternative: rational democracy through scientific reform; Assessing Mead's activities as alternatives; Karl Mannheim; Mannheim's critique: laissez-faire mass society; Mannheim's alternative: The Third Way; Sociology in a militant democracy; Conclusion: Mead and Mannheim on democracy; 6 Henri Lefebvre and Herbert Marcuse: Neo-Marxist Alternatives; Henri Lefebvre; Lefebvre's critique: everyday life as alienation; Lefebvre's alternative: autogestion; Would Lefebvre's alternative solve the problems?; Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse's critique: the repressive totalitarian-technological stage of capitalismMarcuse's potential liberation: the utopian potentials of capitalism; Marcuse's transition: the Great Refusal; The new sensibility; Marcuse's alternative: a society based upon the new sensibility; Conclusion: comparing Lefebvre and Marcuse; 7 Selma James, Andrea Dworkin and Their Interlocutors: Feminist Alternatives; Feminist alternatives; Wages for housework; Would wages for housework lessen patriarchy?; Banning pornography; The feminist critique of pornography; Contemporary anti-pornography feminism. The alternative: 'MacDworkin' and the campaign to ban pornographyFeminist critics of banning pornography; Conclusion; 8 Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck: Cosmopolitan Alternatives; Anthony Giddens; Giddens' late modern world; Giddens' critique: the emergence of life politics; Giddens' alternative: generative politics in The Third Way; Giddens' solution and being a public intellectual; Ulrich Beck; Beck's second modern risk society; Beck's critique: methodological nationalist sociology and society; Beck's alternative: a cosmopolitan world; Conclusion: the alternatives of Giddens and Beck.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.4; Social sciences; Cooperative societies; Collective settlements; Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Collective settlements; Cooperative societies; Sociology; Gesellschaftsordnung; Soziologische Theorie; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Sociology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1137337346; 9781137337344
• Related ISBNs: 9781137337337; 1137337338; 9781137337320; 113733732X
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