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Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

How do writers marginalized by the authoritarian state in which they live intervene in the political process? They cannot do so directly because they are not politicians. Other modes of engagement are possible however. A writer may take up arms and become a revolutionary. Or as Max Weber did he may try to influence politics by playing the role of constitutional advisor or by seeking to shape the dominant language in which his contemporaries think. Weber sought to reconstitute the political and social vocabulary of his day. Part I of Caesarism Charisma and Fate examines a great writer's political passions and the linguistic creativity they generated. Specially it is an analysis of the manner in which Weber reshaped the nineteenth century idea of Caesarism a term traditionally associated with the authoritarian populism of Napoleon III and Bismarck and transmuted it into a concept that was either neutral or positive. The coup de grace of this alchemy was to make Caesarism reappear as charisma. In that transformation a highly contentious political concept suffused with disapproval and anxiety was naturalized into an ideal type of universal value-free sociology. Part II augments Weber's ideas for the modem age. A recurrent preoccupation of Weber's writings was human fate a condition that evokes the pathos of choice the political meaning of death and the formation of national solidarity. Peter Baehr marrying Weber and Durkheim fashions a new concept community of fate for sociological theory. Communities of fate-such as the Warsaw Ghetto or Hong Kong dealing with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis-are embattled social sites in which people face the prospect of collective death. They cohere because of an intense and broadly shared focus of attention on a common plight. Weber's work helps us grasp the nature of such communities the mechanisms that produce them and not least their dramatic consequences. | Caesarism Charisma and Fate Historical Sources and Modern Resonances in the Work of Max Weber

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A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

Moral economy as a set of rules which regulate market transactions has been the object of much research and debate since the 1980s; it has also been the focus of classical sociological authors such as Weber Simmel and Toennies. Weber in particular examined the rules of the moral economy in the financial markets and this volume sheds light on his contribution to the subject. The book formulates two models of business relations - one oligopolistic model the other based on free competition - which are derived from Weber and Simmel's writings and which represent alternative instances of the moral economy. Empirical case studies in the form of South Korea and Taiwan are included to exemplify the two models and to highlight the consequences of adopting one model over the other. The volume also examines the conduct of actors in some of the leading financial markets with reference to Weber's writings on the 19th century London and Berlin Stock Exchanges. | A Weberian Analysis of Business Groups and Financial Markets Trade Relations in Taiwan and Korea and some Major Stock Exchanges

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In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry

In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry

In this stunning reappraisal of the celebrated case of Daniel Paul Schreber Lothane takes the reader on a richly documented tour of all the ingredients that made Schreber's illness a unique psychiatric event. Building outward from a close examination of Schreber's troubled relationship to his two psychiatrists Flechsig and Weber Lothane elaborates the personal familial and cultural contexts of Schreber's illness. Incorporating extensive new archival and bibliographic research and providing extensive accounts of the personalities and theories of Schreber's two psychiatrists Paul Flechsig and Guido Weber Zvi Lothane offers a stunning reappraisal of the Schreber case that overturns virtually all previous opinion. Lothane examines both the man and his milieu in a way that allows the reader fresh access not only to the tragedy of Schreber's illness but also to his heroic if doomed attempts to come to terms with his condition through writing. In the process he persuasively demonstrates that important issues of both psychiatric diagnosis and psychoanalytic interpretation have heretofore been compromised by a failure to pay sufficient attention to Schreber's interpersonal cultural and historical contexts. | In Defense of Schreber Soul Murder and Psychiatry

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Monasticism in Modern Times

Monasticism in Modern Times

This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However the field is now being revitalized by some new research. Focusing on Christian monks and nuns the contributors explore continuity and discontinuity with the past in what superficially might appear a monolithic tradition. Contributors speak not only about monasticism in Europe and the United States but also in Africa and Latin America a different landscape where the question of recruitment does not figure among issues considered as problematic. | Monasticism in Modern Times

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Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

Political Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology explores the concept of political legitimacy the nature of the normative foundation of politics and the state. With particular attention to the broad theoretical approach of political realism within political theory and political sociology it examines the work of figures including Bernard Williams Raymond Geuss John Grey Max Weber and Niklas Luhmann among others. Contending that in the face of the waning influence of political idealism the insights of political realism constitute a promising way forward the author also advances the view that realist political theory would benefit from sociological insights particularly on the nature of the state. As such Political Legitimacy will appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory political sociology and political philosophy. | Political Legitimacy Realism in Political Theory and Sociology

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The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

Written for a broad audience of medical and behavioral healthcare professionals The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions: A Collective Strategy introduces clinicians to best practices in addiction interventions and bridges the gap between the theory and practice of successful intervention. Synthesizing decades of fieldwork Louise Stanger explores the framework for successful invitations to change what they look like in action and how to adjust approach by population and Lee Weber serves as editor. The authors summarize and compare intervention models in use today and explain the use of family mapping and individual portraiture as clinical tools. The text also teaches clinicians to troubleshoot common situations as they help move clients toward positive life decisions. Practical ready-to-use clinical tools follow the text in downloadable worksheet form. | The Definitive Guide to Addiction Interventions A Collective Strategy

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Embattled Reason Volume 2 Essays on Social Knowledge

Embattled Reason Volume 2 Essays on Social Knowledge

Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays published over the course of thirty years embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole. The articles are grouped under three headings. In Conditions of Knowledge the author is concerned with the value assumptions basic to the social sciences. Under Theoretical Perspectives the author presents the guiding considerations of his own work in a continuing dialogue with such thinkers as Tocqueville Marx Durkheim and Weber. In the last section Studies of Modernization Bendix takes up problems involved in an analysis of social change though a reexamination of evolutionist assumptions. Reinhard Bendix is professor of sociology and political science at the University of California Berkeley. | Embattled Reason Volume 2 Essays on Social Knowledge

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The Gift Economy

The Gift Economy

Until recently we have known more about gift giving practices in pre-industrial societies than about those of industrial western society. In this book first published in 1988 David Cheal shows that the process of present giving and receiving is a vital element in contemporary social life relevant to some of the most important theoretical traditions in sociology particularly those of Durkheim and Weber and to the social constructionism of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann. This volume is the result of a major study of gift rituals carried out by David Cheal and his associates in which general themes are richly illustrated with details from individual case histories gathered during the research. It is highly significant that in western society women are more active gift givers than men and while their voices explain how emotions and interests are interrelated within the gift economy the author shows how that in turn is related to current theories about family gender and religion.

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Routledge International Handbook of Charisma

Routledge International Handbook of Charisma

The Routledge International Handbook of Charisma provides an unprecedented multidimensional and multidisciplinary comparative analysis of the phenomenon of charisma – first defined by Max Weber as the irrational bond between deified leader and submissive follower. It includes broad overviews of foundational theories and experiences of charisma and of associated key issues and themes. Contributors include 45 influential international scholars who approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives and utilize examples from an array of historical and cultural settings. The Handbook presents up-to-date concise thought-provoking innovative and informative perspectives on charisma as it has been expressed in the past and as it continues to be manifested in the contemporary world by leaders ranging from shamans to presidents. It is designed to be essential reading for all students researchers and general readers interested in achieving a comprehensive understanding of the power and potential of charismatic authority in all its varieties subtleties dynamics and current and potential directions.

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Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

This book presents a clear and precise account of the structure and content of Max Weber's sociology of law: situating its methodological and epistemological specificity in relation to other approaches to the sociology of law; as well as offering a critical evaluation of Weber's usefulness for contemporary socio-legal research. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the methodological foundations of Weber's sociology of law. The second analyses the central theme of this sociology the rationalisation of law from the perspective of its internal logical coherence its empirical validity and finally its legitimacy. The third part questions the present-day relevance of the Weberian sociology of law for socio-legal research notably with regard to legal pluralism. Max Weber it is demonstrated is not merely a 'founding father' of the sociology of law; rather his methodology concepts and empirical analyses remain highly useful to the further development of work in this area. | Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology of Law

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Administration Ethics and Democracy

Administration Ethics and Democracy

This title was first published in 2000: Administration Ethics and Democracy is concerned with the disciplines of philosophy political science and sociology. ˜jvind Larsen's book provides a deeper analysis of the relations between administration ethics and democracy. In modern society it is no longer sufficient to be the obedient administrator Max Weber speaks about. The time is ripe to re-evaluate the overriding responsibilities of the administration. Today responsible administration demands an independent position to be taken. ˜jvind Larsen views the administration from the continuous complex demands it is required to meet and proposes that the professional role is not exempt from personal responsibility or position. Therefore it is crucial that the administrator has freedom of expression and the opportunity to discuss his problems with others. Ethics are a common concern and also a political problem in democratic society. This is why there is a close connection between administration ethics and democracy.

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Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

This book substantiates two claims. First the modern world was not simply produced by objective factors rooted in geographical discoveries and scientific inventions to be traced to economic technological or political factors but is the outcome of social cultural and spiritual processes. Among such factors beyond the Protestant ethic (Max Weber) the rise of the absolutist state and its disciplinary network (Michel Foucault) or court society (Norbert Elias) a prime role is played by theatre. The modern reality is deeply theatricalized. Second a special access for studying this theatricalized world is offered by novels. The best classical novels not simply can be interpreted as describing a world like the theatre but they capture and present a world that has become thoroughly transformed into a global theatre. The theatre effectively transformed the world and classical novels effectively analyze this theatricalized reality – much better than the main instruments supposedly destined to study reality philosophy and sociology. Thus instead of using the technique of sociology to analyze novels the book will treat novels as a royal road to analyze a theatricalized reality in order to find our way back to a genuine and meaningful life. | Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary

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Colonial Slavery An Abridged Translation

Colonial Slavery An Abridged Translation

Jacob Gorender's (1923–2013) 1978 book Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial) comes alive for English language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter and Alejandro Reyes's brilliant translation. Gorender argued that slave-holding societies produced an economic system sui generis not fitting into any of the established societal categories offered by Karl Marx and Max Weber. As such Gorender proposed a theory of colonial slavery as the structuring force of slave-holding societies. For him slave-holding societies are different from other societies in that slavery structured them differently. This is of the utmost relevance to this day as it allows for a new and different way to explain contemporary racial inequalities in post-slavery societies. An accomplished interpreter of Brazilian social formation Gorender was motivated by the need to understand the historical roots of class domination and the emergence of Brazilian capitalist society. His presentation of rich historical data rigorous theoretical and analytical framework and militant action as an active member of the Brazilian Communist Party are the hallmarks of his writing. Colonial Slavery: An Abridged Translation is a must-read for researchers teachers and students of history sociology economics politics as well as activists of the Black movement and other movements committed to anti-racism. | Colonial Slavery An Abridged Translation

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David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion. He was one of the first critics of the so-called secularization thesis and his historical orientation makes him one of the few outstanding scholars who have continued the work begun by Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. This collection provides the first scholarly overview of his hugely influential work and includes a chapter written by David Martin himself. Starting with an introduction that contextualises David Martin’s theories on the sociology of religion both currently and historically this volume aims to cover David Martin’s lifework in its entirety. An international panel of contributors sheds new light on his studies of particular geographical areas (Britain Latin America Scandinavia) and on certain systematic fields (secularization violence music Pentecostalism the relation between sociology and theology). David Martin’s concluding chapter addresses the critical points raised in response to his theories. This book addresses one of the key figures in the development of the sociology of religion and as such it will be of great interest to all scholars of the sociology of religion. | David Martin and the Sociology of Religion

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Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism. It situates them in the milieu in which they wrote. They were never neutral observers standing outside the conditions they were trying to explain. Their arguments were responses to those circumstances and to the views of others commentators living and dead. Some repeated earlier views; others built on those perspectives; a few changed the way we think. While surveying earlier writers the author’s primary concerns are theorists who sought to explain industrialization imperialism and the consolidation of nation-states after 1840. Marx Durkheim and Weber still shape our understandings of the past present and future. Patterson focuses on explanations of the unsettled conditions that crystallized in the 1910s and still persist: the rise of socialist states anti-colonial movements prolonged economic crises and almost continuous war. After 1945 theorists in capitalist countries influenced by Cold War politics saw social change in terms of economic growth progress and modernization; their contemporaries elsewhere wrote about underdevelopment dependency or uneven development. In the 1980s theorists of postmodernity neoliberalism globalization innovations in communications technologies and post-socialism argued that they rendered earlier accounts insufficient. Others saw them as manifestations of a new imperialism capitalist accumulation on a global scale environmental crises and nationalist populism. | Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

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Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

This book examines the connection between sociology and the challenges faced by the modern military. Military sociology has received little attention in the broader academic world and is mostly focused on civil-military relations. This book seeks to address this gap and combines ideas theories and insights from sociology’s founding authors with each chapter focusing on a specific thinker. There are chapters on Max Weber Emile Durkheim Karl Marx Georg Simmel Jane Addams W. E. B. Du Bois Erving Goffman Michel Foucault Morris Janowitz Norbert Elias Cornelis Lammers Arlie Russell Hochschild Cynthia Enloe and Bruno Latour and each essay discusses their ideas and theories in relation to topics that are of concern in and around the military today. Military studies are taken in a broad sense here so the volume encompasses a wide range of issues including civil-military relations military-political affairs performance and outcomes of military operations and organizational arrangements including technology and the composition performance and well-being of personnel. The book intends to provide views and insights that will help the military to innovate their organizations and practices not necessarily in the usual functional way of innovating (i. e. faster more precise etc. ) but in a broader way. This book will be of great interest to students of sociology military studies civil-military relations war and conflict studies and IR in general. | Sociology and Military Studies Classical and Current Foundations

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American Security and the Global War on Terror

American Security and the Global War on Terror

This book delivers an interpretive framework for making sense of today’s geopolitical landscape and casts new light on the impact ideology and technology have had on American foreign policy and contemporary security practices. Edwin Daniel Jacob argues that America’s security practices in the Global War on Terror have been guided by an anachronistic Cold War logic that has subordinated strategy to tactics. Jacob shows that deep-rooted prejudices and presuppositions regarding American exceptionalism have had a disastrous impact on the policies of the United States not only in dealing with terrorism but also in seeking to impose American hegemony in the Middle East. Ineffectual security practices of dubious moral character from rendition and torture to preemptive strikes and nation building to drones and assassinations privilege exigency over ethics. Yet the result of this “post-strategic” approach to security where interchangeable tactics like these masquerade as strategy only increases insecurity. Jacob offers a fresh perspective on American foreign policy that links national security with human security in regional terms. This approach highlights the need for order predictability and stability—the cornerstone of political realism. Making use of insights derived from Machiavelli Hobbes Marx Weber Schmitt and Morgenthau this interdisciplinary work provides an overview of American foreign policy in the twenty-first century and speaks to crucial themes in the fields of history political science and sociology. | American Security and the Global War on Terror

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

Raymond Aron's classic two-volume study of the sociological tradition is arguably the definitive work of its kind. More than a work of reconstruction Aron's study is at its deepest level an engagement with the question of modernity: What constitutes the essence of the modern order that having emerged in the eighteenth century still shapes our experience? With scrupulous fairness Aron examines the thought and arguments of the major social thinkers in this two volume set. Volume one explores three traditions: the French liberal school of political sociology represented by Montesquieu and Tocqueville; the Comtean tradition anticipating Durkheim in its its elevation of social unity and consensus; and the Marxists who posited the struggle between classes and placed their faith in historical necessity. Volume two explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Emile Durkheim who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto the Italian neo-Machiavellian who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization. Both volumes of Main Currents of Sociological Thought are essential reading for any student of sociology political thought and political philosophy as well as any general reader interested in the ideas the thinkers who shaped modern social and political thought. | Main Currents in Sociological Thought 2 Volume Set

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Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

Capitalism and its Critics offers an accessible account of major theories of capitalism from the industrial revolution to the present day. The book provides a comprehensive account of the economic and social thought of key theorists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. Capitalism has long been the subject of passionate debate and today such contestations are perhaps more timely than ever. For its advocates capitalism brings democracy and freedom and is the cornerstone of modernity and of progress. For its critics capitalism is based on the exploitation of labour and is responsible for the destruction of the environment as well as colonialism. Whether capitalism survives the century or whether an alternative social system emerges may very well determine the fate of humanity. Capitalism and its Critics gives a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important theorists of capitalism including Adam Smith Karl Marx Max Weber Joseph Schumpeter Karl Polanyi F. A. Hayek J. M. Keynes David Harvey and Thomas Piketty. The book discusses some of the main debates about capitalism and considers alternatives in the twenty-first century. The 12 chapters are loosely chronologically organised around the main approaches and historical phases in the history of capitalism. Central themes of the book are the ideas of capitalist crisis and of tensions between democracy and capitalism in the making of modernity. A highly readable informative and engaging text Capitalism and its Critics is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding capitalism and its alternatives. | Capitalism and its Critics Capitalism in Social and Political Theory

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Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness

Sociological Theories of Health and Illness reviews the evolution of theory in medical sociology beginning with the field’s origins in medicine and extending to its present-day standing as a major sociological subdiscipline. Sociological theory has an especially important role in the practice of medical sociology because its theories distinguish the subdiscipline from virtually all other scientific fields engaged in the study of health and illness. The focus is on contemporary theory because it applies to contemporary conditions; however since theory in sociology is often grounded in historical precedents and classical foundations this material is likewise included as it relates to medical sociology today. This book focuses on the most commonly used sociological theories in the study of health and illness illustrating their utility in current examples of empirical research on a wide range of topics. The qualitative or quantitative research methods applicable to specific theories are also covered. Distinctions between macro and micro-level levels of analysis and the relevance of the agency-structure dichotomy inherent in all theories in sociology are discussed. Beginning with classical theory (Durkheim Weber and Marx) and the neglected founders (Gilman Martineau and DuBois) along with symbolic interaction (Mead Strauss) and labeling theory (Becker) and poststructuralism and postmodernism (Foucault) coverage is extended to contemporary medical sociology. Discussion of the stress process model (Pearlin) is followed by the social construction of gender and race and intersectionality theory (Collins) health lifestyle theory (Cockerham) life course theory (Elder) fundamental cause theory (Link and Phelan) and theories of the medical profession (Freidson) medicalization and biomedicalization (Conrad Clarke) and social capital (Bourdieu Putnam and Lin).

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Jews and Gentiles A Historical Sociology of Their Relations

Jews and Gentiles A Historical Sociology of Their Relations

Studies of the Jewish experience among peoples with whom they live share some similarities with the usual histories of anti-Semitism but also some differences. When the focus is on anti-Semitism Jewish history appears as a record of unmitigated hostility against the Jewish people and of passivity on their part. However as Werner J. Cahnman demonstrates in this posthumous volume Jewish-Gentile relations are far more complex. There is a long history of mutual contacts positive as well as antagonistic even if conflict continues to require particular attention. Cahnman's approach while following a historical sequence is sociological in conception. From Roman antiquity through the Middle Ages into the era of emancipation and the Holocaust and finally to the present American and Israeli scene there are basic similarities and various dissimilarities all of which are described and analyzed. Cahnman tests the theses of classical sociology implicitly yet unobtrusively. He traces the socio-economic basis of human relations which Marx and others have emphasized and considers Jews a marginal trading people in the Park-Becker sense. Simmel and Toennies he shows understood Jews as strangers and intermediaries. While Cahnman shows that Jews were not pariahs as Max Weber thought he finds a remarkable affinity to Weber's Protestantism-capitalism argument in the tension of Jewish-Christian relations emerging from the bitter theological argument over usury. The primacy of Jewish-Gentile relations in all their complexity and variability is essential for the understanding of Jewish social and political history. This volume is a valuable contribution to that understanding. | Jews and Gentiles A Historical Sociology of Their Relations

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Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage. This change of emphasis is having an impact on the world of opera production with new productions of works not heard since the nineteenth century taking their place in the modern repertory. This awakening of enthusiasm has come at something of a price. Selling French opera as little more than an important precursor to Verdi or Wagner has entailed a focus on works produced exclusively for the Paris Opéra at the expense of the vast range of other types of stage music produced in the capital: opéra comique opérette comédie-vaudeville and mélodrame for example. The first part of this book therefore seeks to reintroduce a number of norms to the study of stage music in Paris: to re-establish contexts and conventions that still remain obscure. The second and third parts acknowledge Paris as an importer and exporter of opera and its focus moves towards the music of its closest neighbours the Italian-speaking states and of its most problematic partners the German-speaking states especially the music of Weber and Wagner. Prefaced by an introduction that develops the volume’s overriding intellectual drivers of cultural exchange genre and institution this collection brings together twelve of the author’s previously published articles and essays fully updated for this volume and translated into English for the first time. | Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

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Sociology Saves the Planet An Introduction to Socioecological Thinking and Practice

Sociology Saves the Planet An Introduction to Socioecological Thinking and Practice

Highlighting how the environment and society are intrinsically linked this book argues that environmental concerns need to be treated as a core concept in the study of sociology. Given its focus on inequality and the constituent elements of the social world sociology has often been accused of negligence regarding the urgency of the world’s environmental crisis. Sociology Saves the Planet corrects this mis-perception by integrating the theme of environment and society to highlight the intrinsic value a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the current ecological crisis. The author first draws out the origins of sociology in the social and ecological transformations of the industrial revolution. In accounting for the social upheavals of the 19th century Emile Durkheim Karl Marx and Max Weber all provided key insights into the changing nature of human organization and exploitation of the natural world. Second readers will explore sociological perspectives developed since that time grounded in evidence-based research which highlight the inextricable connection between environment and society. Special attention is devoted to the dual role of people as producers and consumers in the modern context. Lastly this book examines the significance of major categories of social difference regarding the current environmental crisis. In that regard the question of environmental justice is paramount illuminating both the disproportionate benefit of natural resource exploitation to those countries and individuals with higher socioeconomic status and the greater exposure to environmental hazard among those with less. Averting global calamity requires we recognize the unequal social impacts of the environmental crisis while valorizing inclusivity and the diversity of human experience in our search for solutions. Designed for introductory courses this book is essential reading for sociology students and will be of interest to students and academics studying environment and sustainability more broadly. | Sociology Saves the Planet An Introduction to Socioecological Thinking and Practice

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