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Autopoiesis, communication, and society: the theory of autopoietic systems in the social sciences
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ISBN: 359332797X 9783593327976 Year: 1980 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Campus

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Pathologien des Sozialen: die Aufgaben der Sozialphilosophie
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ISBN: 3596122473 9783596122479 Year: 1994 Volume: 12247 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Fischer

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The Ivory Tower of Babel : Why the Social Sciences Are Failing to Live Up to Their Promises
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ISBN: 0875868819 9780875868813 9780875868790 0875868797 9780875868806 0875868800 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Algora Publishing,

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Mainstream social science has come under fierce criticism in recent decades for failing to have more impact on public policy. Critics say the social sciences are incapable of generating knowledge that can solve social problems. Others contend that partisan politics and university administrations are the problem. Politicians are more concerned about special interests than scientific research, and administrators care more about scholarly publications than solving social problems. Are the social sciences failing to live up to their promises? Have they outlived their usefulness? Have they become a


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Contemporary social philosophy
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ISBN: 063115986X 9780631159865 Year: 1988 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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The philosophy of the social sciences
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ISBN: 0333109724 0333109635 9780333109632 9780333109724 Year: 1970 Volume: 295 Publisher: London Macmillan

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Pragmatism and the Wide View of Democracy
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ISBN: 9783030185602 9783030185619 3030185605 3030185613 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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‘In times of defiant populism, a refreshing, thought-provoking invitation to reorient attention from peoples to publics comes from Frega’s lucid reconstruction of the elective affinity of democracy and pragmatism. Frega’s wide view of democracy is an authentic must-read for democrats and pragmatists alike.’ — Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, Author of The Democratic Horizon '"The cure for the ills of Democracy,” wrote Jane Addams, "is more Democracy.” Roberto Frega amends Addams to say that the cure is a “wide view of democracy”—one that encompasses our habits, social interactions, and forms of organization. Through a systematic philosophical, sociological and political analysis, Frega reveals how an inclusive group life and experimentalist institutions can revive our flagging democratic fortunes.' — Christopher Ansell, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA The aim of this book is to provide a fresh, wider, and more compelling account of democracy than the one we usually find in conventional contemporary political theory. Telling the story of democracy as a broad societal project rather than as merely a political regime, Frega delivers an account more in tune with our everyday experience and ordinary intuitions, bringing back into political theory the notion that democracy denotes first and foremost a form of society, and only secondarily a specific political regime. The theoretical shift accomplished is major. Claiming that such a view of democracy is capable of replacing the mainstream categories of justice, freedom and non-domination in their hegemonic function of all-encompassing political concepts, Frega then argues for democracy as the broader normative framework within which to rethink the meaning and forms of associated living in all spheres of personal, social, economic, and political life. Drawing on diverse traditions of American pragmatism and critical theory, as well as tackling political issues which are at the core of contemporary theoretical debates, this book invites a rethinking of political theory to one more concerned with the political circumstances of social life, rather than remaining confined in the narrowly circumscribed space of a theory of government. .


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The fragmented world of the social
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ISBN: 0585058946 9780585058948 0791422992 9780791422991 079142300X 9780791423004 079142300X 9781438407005 1438407009 Year: 1995 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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Nationalism and social theory : modernity and the recalcitrance of the nation
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ISBN: 1446217477 1281794708 9786611794705 1412931835 9781412931830 9781446217474 9781281794703 6611794700 0761954503 0761954511 9780761954507 9780761954514 Year: 2002 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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A perennial subject for sociologists, nationalism, the focus of this study, is persistent, not merely because of its specific ideological appeal, but because it expresses some of the major conflicts in Western social development.

Using conflict theory
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ISBN: 9780511613692 9780521791168 9780521794466 0521791162 0521794463 0511077831 9780511077838 0511158289 9780511158285 0511076266 9780511076268 0511613695 0511557205 9780511557200 1282389173 9781282389175 1107121485 9781107121485 9786612389177 6612389176 0511643004 9780511643002 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Human conflict - from family feuds, to labor strikes, to national warfare - is an ever-present and universal social problem and the methods to manage it, a challenge for everyone, from average citizens to policymakers and social theorists. Using Conflict Theory will educate students about how, under what conditions, and why conflict erupts, and how it can be managed. It is a unique classroom book blending theory and practical application and the first to bridge for students the science of social theory and the art of practice. The authors extract from classical sociological theory (Marx, Dahrendorf, Weber, Durkheim, and Parsons), and interpret for the student how these theoretical perspectives have contributed to understanding social conflict (its sources, the causes of escalation and de-escalation of violence, the negotiations process). The perspectives of contemporary theorists (such as Randall Collins, James Coleman, Joseph Himes, Hubert Blalock) are also brought to bear on these questions.

Sociolinguistics and social theory
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ISBN: 0582327830 0582327849 9780582327832 Year: 2001 Publisher: Harlow, England ; New York : Longman,

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