Radical ambition [[electronic resource] ] : C. Wright Mills, the left, and American social thought / / Daniel Geary |
Autore | Geary Daniel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 301.092 |
Soggetto topico | Sociology - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1950s
20th century america american culture american politics american socialism american sociology american studies biography c wright mills intellectual thinkers international politics labor movement left wing thought liberal intellectuals new left nonfiction old left political left political outsiders politics radical politics radical socialism radicalism and revolution rebellion retrospective social critics social thought sociologists united states |
ISBN |
1-282-77256-2
9786612772566 0-520-94344-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Maverick on a Motorcycle? The Thought and Times of C. Wright Mills -- 1. Student Ambitions: The Education of a Social Scientist -- 2. What Is Happening in the World Today: Weberian Sociology and Radical Political Analysis -- 3. The Union of the Power and the Intellect: The Labor Movement and Bureau-Driven Social Research -- 4. The New Little Men: 'White Collar' -- 5. The Politics of Truth: 'The Power Elite' and 'The Sociological Imagination' -- 6. Worldly Ambitions: The Emergence of a Global New Left -- Epilogue: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789000903321 |
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Radical ambition : C. Wright Mills, the left, and American social thought / / Daniel Geary |
Autore | Geary Daniel |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 301.092 |
Soggetto topico | Sociology - United States - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1950s
20th century america american culture american politics american socialism american sociology american studies biography c wright mills intellectual thinkers international politics labor movement left wing thought liberal intellectuals new left nonfiction old left political left political outsiders politics radical politics radical socialism radicalism and revolution rebellion retrospective social critics social thought sociologists united states |
ISBN |
1-282-77256-2
9786612772566 0-520-94344-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Maverick on a Motorcycle? The Thought and Times of C. Wright Mills -- 1. Student Ambitions: The Education of a Social Scientist -- 2. What Is Happening in the World Today: Weberian Sociology and Radical Political Analysis -- 3. The Union of the Power and the Intellect: The Labor Movement and Bureau-Driven Social Research -- 4. The New Little Men: 'White Collar' -- 5. The Politics of Truth: 'The Power Elite' and 'The Sociological Imagination' -- 6. Worldly Ambitions: The Emergence of a Global New Left -- Epilogue: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827181903321 |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
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War in social thought [[electronic resource] ] : Hobbes to the present / / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl ; translated by Alex Skinner |
Autore | Joas Hans <1948-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/6 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KnöblWolfgang <1963->
SkinnerAlex |
Soggetto topico |
War and society
Sociology - History - 19th century Sociology - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American sociology
Auguste Comte Carl Schmitt Carl von Clausewitz First World War Germany Hans Speier Herbert Spencer Immanuel Kant James Mill Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Marxism Michael Doyle Michel Foucault Montesquieu Napoleonic Wars Otto Hintze Roger Caillois Thomas Hobbes United States Werner Sombart capitalism democracy democratic peace democratization empire building failed states free trade historical sociology intellectuals international relations liberalism marketization militarism military sociology modernity modernization theory new wars peace political migrs progressive optimism social change social progress social theory social thought sociology state decline total war violence virtue war |
ISBN |
1-283-68354-7
1-4008-4474-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. War and Peace before Sociology: Social Theorizing on Violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic Wars -- 3. The Long Peace of the nineteenth Century and the birth of Sociology -- 4. The Classical Figures of Sociology and the Great Seminal Catastrophe of the Twentieth Century -- 5. Sociology and Social Theory from the end of the First World War to the 1970's -- 6. After Modernization Theory: Historical Sociology and the bellicose Constitution of Western Modernity -- 7. After the east-West Conflict: Democratization, State Collapse, and empire building -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786368203321 |
Joas Hans <1948->
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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War in social thought : Hobbes to the present / / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knobl ; translated by Alex Skinner |
Autore | Joas Hans <1948-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/6 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
KnöblWolfgang <1963->
SkinnerAlex |
Soggetto topico |
War and society
Sociology - History - 19th century Sociology - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
American sociology
Auguste Comte Carl Schmitt Carl von Clausewitz First World War Germany Hans Speier Herbert Spencer Immanuel Kant James Mill Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Marxism Michael Doyle Michel Foucault Montesquieu Napoleonic Wars Otto Hintze Roger Caillois Thomas Hobbes United States Werner Sombart capitalism democracy democratic peace democratization empire building failed states free trade historical sociology intellectuals international relations liberalism marketization militarism military sociology modernity modernization theory new wars peace political migrs progressive optimism social change social progress social theory social thought sociology state decline total war violence virtue war |
ISBN |
1-283-68354-7
1-4008-4474-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. War and Peace before Sociology: Social Theorizing on Violence from Thomas Hobbes to the Napoleonic Wars -- 3. The Long Peace of the nineteenth Century and the birth of Sociology -- 4. The Classical Figures of Sociology and the Great Seminal Catastrophe of the Twentieth Century -- 5. Sociology and Social Theory from the end of the First World War to the 1970's -- 6. After Modernization Theory: Historical Sociology and the bellicose Constitution of Western Modernity -- 7. After the east-West Conflict: Democratization, State Collapse, and empire building -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807489103321 |
Joas Hans <1948->
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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