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Max Weber and Islam

Max Weber and Islam

Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates. Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber's conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam Islamic fundamentalism Islamic reform Islamic law and capitalism secularization in Islam as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber's concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber's factual knowledge of Islam they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised. Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus Nehemia Levtzion Richard M. Eaton Peter Hardy Rudolph Peters Barbara Metcalf Francis Robinson Patricia Crone Michael Cook and S. N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff's introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber's sociological thought on Islam this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists.

GBP 51.99
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Sociological Analysis

Sociological Analysis

Originally published in 1972 this book is an important introduction to the analytical aspects of sociology. It analyses the various strands in 20th Century sociological thought illustrating the richness as much as the poverty of any particular approach. It explores and compares the work of Weber and Pareto on sociological analysis stressing the vital significance of their contributions to sociological knowledge. It looks at the stimulating implications of Karl Mannheim’s thought on the sociology of knowledge and finds in Mannheim the beginnings of most of the contemporary trends in sociology. It covers the fundamental assumptions of Parsonian thought and analyses the derivative character of the ideas of Robert Merton and Reinhard Bendix along with Dahrendorf’s notions on a re-orientation of sociology.

GBP 80.00
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Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

Social Theory is more than a reader. Feminists race theorists decolonizing leaders and others are thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert’s substantial commentaries. Social Theory has always sought to keep up with the new while respecting the old—from Durkheim and Weber to Latinx and LGBTQ pioneers. When the book first appeared it was as it remains a collection of selections from those who have changed how we think about social things. Today as the world is threatened by a global wave of anti-democratic movements Social Theory adds a new early section to remind us of the origins of democratic values in the 1700s. A new concluding section focuses the theoretical mind on how in the 2020s social theorists are rethinking the world in order to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democratic movements. | Social Theory The Multicultural Global and Classic Readings

GBP 66.99
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Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

Public Relations and Social Theory: Key Figures Concepts and Developments broadens the theoretical scope of public relations studies by applying the work of a group of prominent social theorists to make sense of the practice. The volume focuses on the work of key social theorists including Max Weber Karl Marx John Dewey Jürgen Habermas Niklas Luhmann Michel Foucault Ulrich Beck Pierre Bourdieu Anthony Giddens Robert Putnam Erving Goffman Peter L. Berger Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Bruno Latour Dorothy Smith Zygmunt Bauman Harrison White John W. Meyer Luc Boltanski and Chantal Mouffe. Each chapter is devoted to an individual theorist providing an overview of that theorist’s key concepts and contributions and exploring how these can be applied to public relations as a practice. Each chapter also includes a box giving a short and concise presentation of the theorist along with recommendation of key works and secondary literature. | Public Relations and Social Theory Key Figures Concepts and Developments

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Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

Inspired by Bourdieu’s thought this book explores the notion of cultural capital offering insights into its various definitions its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's theory of capital and power considering the relationship between cultural social and human capital the distinctions between capital and capitalism and the conflicts that exist among theories that have emerged in response to – or can be brought to bear on – Bourdieu’s work. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber Fernand Braudel Daniel Bell Herbert Marcuse Jean Baudrillard Theodore Adorno Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lipovetsky Cultural Capital and Creative Communication represents the first book to develop a field of research and study that is devoted to cultural capital. Richly illustrated with empirical examples and offering assessment exercises it will appeal not only to scholars and students of sociology philosophy and social theory but also to corporate communities who seek to develop training modules on the increase of their cultural capital. | Cultural Capital and Creative Communication (Anti-)Modern and (Non-)Eurocentric Perspectives

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How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

Theories of explanation in the social sciences vacillate between holism and individualism. Wettersten contends that this has been a consequence of theories of rationality which assume that rationality requires coherent theories to be shown to be true. Rejecting these traditional assumptions about rationality Wettersten claims that the traditional explanations of rationality have placed unrealistic demands on both individuals and institutions. Analysing the theories of Weber and Popper Wettersten shows that Popper made considerable progress in the theory of rationality but ultimately stayed too close to the ideas of Hayek he explains how this dilemma leads to difficulties in economics anthropology sociology ethics and political theory and constructs an alternative theory that rationality is critical problem-solving in institutional contexts. Wettersten contends that 'the critical consideration of theories followed by their improvement' dispenses with the need for justification and sees rationality as a social phenomena with an institutional basis. The main social advantages this view offers is that the degree of rationality individuals achieve may be increased by institutional reform without moralizing and that we can explain how institutions steer events insofar as we understand how they determine the problems which individuals seek to solve. It is argued that the central moral advantage of this view is that rationality is shown to be Spinozistic in the sense that it is natural and furthers morality and peace of mind. | How Do Institutions Steer Events? An Inquiry into the Limits and Possibilities of Rational Thought and Action

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Robert Michels Political Sociology and the Future of Democracy

Robert Michels Political Sociology and the Future of Democracy

These essays by the brilliant historian of political science Juan Linz comprise a remarkable intellectual review of the life and work of Robert Michels his major book Political Parties and the dimensions of democracy as a functioning system. Linz elucidates the importance of Michels in a way that offers more than a mechanical view of political parties as some sort of precisely ordered system of authority and influence. Instead Michels offers a view of politics that is bottom up and untidy what he calls a reciprocal deference structure. Michels is not simply the father of the iron law of oligarchy but the idea of politics as a less than orderly network of responsiveness responsibility and accountability. Linz demonstrates with magisterial power why Michels must be ranked as a foremost thinker in classical political sociology. The remaining three segments of the volume cover areas with which Linz has also long been identified. Each in its own way illumines aspects of Michels as well. Time and Regime Change articulates differences between change within a regime and change of a regime-sometimes hard to identify because of the elongated time frames involved. The next essay explains why Spain is neither a traditional society nor a successful modern nation. The reliance upon central authority displaced the hoped for evolution of a society based on representative democratic institutions. The final section. Freedom and Autonomy of Intellectuals and Artists is a topic that gripped Michels and Linz alike. Freedom as a goal of the intelligentsia has been frustrated by those who provide ideological justification for repression of ideas and actions in the name of higher values. This segment provides a bridge between Michels and Weber-not to mention both of these major figures with Linz himself. The role of state power in mediating intellectual freedom is the leitmotif that blankets the twentieth century. The work is graced by a full-length bibliography of the writings of Juan J. Linz prepared by his student and colleague H. E. Chehabi. | Robert Michels Political Sociology and the Future of Democracy

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