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Refounding Political Governance

The Metaphysics of Public Administration

By: Bruce Cutting,Alexander Kouzmin

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Refounding Political Governance

The Metaphysics of Public Administration

By: Bruce Cutting,Alexander Kouzmin

Re-founding Political Governance: The Metaphysics of Public Administration points to a possible paradigm shift in the way Anglo-American Public Administration should be understood and analyzed. The book presents a unique approach to the analysis of power, leadership and management in Public Administration. The central theme is that humans make organizations in their own image and these organizations, in turn, are a product of the way humans think and act. The book extrapolates from historical philosophy and personality typologies to explain the dynamics and evolution of Public Administration.

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Bentham Science Publishers

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160805246X

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9781608052462

Explanation and Social Theory

By: John Holmwood,Alexander Stewart,Kitty Chisholm

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Explanation and Social Theory

By: John Holmwood,Alexander Stewart,Kitty Chisholm

The book ranges widely over modern social theory, giving detailed treatments of major sources to identify common themes and deficiencies in apparently disparate schools of thought. The object is to lay bare negative assumptions forming methodologies in modern social theory in order to redirect the social sciences towards real problems and the progressive consequences of their solution. Examples are given and, throughout, the continuity of particular and general concerns is demonstrated.

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254

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Springer

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1349216275

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9781349216277

Cultural Theory

An Introduction

By: Philip Smith,Alexander Riley

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Cultural Theory

An Introduction

By: Philip Smith,Alexander Riley

This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework. Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of study Updates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the field Includes additional coverage of theorists from the classical period to include Nietzsche and DuBois Introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body Considers themes that have become more important in theoretical activity in recent years such as computers and virtual reality, cosmopolitanism, and performance theory Draws on theories and theorists from continental Europe as well as the English-speaking world

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444358901

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9781444358902

Theoretical Logic in Sociology

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Theoretical Logic in Sociology

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought need not choose between voluntary action and social constraint. The four volumes can be read independently of one another as each presents a distinctive theoretical argument in its own right. The first volume is directed at contemporary problems and controversies, not only in ‘theory’ but in the philosophy and sociology of science. The last three volumes make interpretations, confronting the individual theorists, and the secondary literature, on their own terms.

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Routledge

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1317807057

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9781317807056

Model-based Interpretation of the Performance and Degradation of Reformate Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

By: Alexander Kromp

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Model-based Interpretation of the Performance and Degradation of Reformate Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

By: Alexander Kromp

Solid oxide fuel cells offer great prospects for the sustainable, clean and safe conversion of various fuels into electrical energy. In this thesis, the performance-determining loss processes for the cell operation on reformate fuels are elucidated via electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Model-based analyses reveal the electrochemical fuel oxidation mechanism, the coupling of fuel gas transport and reforming chemistry and the impact of fuel impurities on the degradation of each loss process.

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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373150006X

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9783731500063

The Dark Side of Modernity

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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The Dark Side of Modernity

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment’s noble hopes for progress and rationality, but its reality brings great suffering and exposes the destructive impulses that continue to motivate humankind. Alexander examines how twentieth-century theorists struggled to comprehend the Janus-faced character of modernity, which looks backward and forward at the same time. Weber linked the triumph of worldly asceticism to liberating autonomy but also ruthless domination, describing flights from rationalization as systemic and dangerous. Simmel pointed to the otherness haunting modernity, even as he normalized the stranger. Eisenstadt celebrated Axial Age transcendence, but acknowledged its increasing capacity for barbarity. Parsons heralded American community, but ignored modernity’s fragmentations. Rather than seeking to resolve modernity’s contradictions, Alexander argues that social theory should accept its Janus-faced character. It is a dangerous delusion to think that modernity can eliminate evil. Civil inclusion and anti-civil exclusion are intertwined. Alexander enumerates dangerous frictions endemic to modernity, but he also suggests new lines of social amelioration and emotional repair.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745665063

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9780745665061

The Meanings of Social Life

A Cultural Sociology

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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The Meanings of Social Life

A Cultural Sociology

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions. Only when these deep patterns of meaning are revealed, Alexander argues, can we understand the stubborn staying power of violence and degradation, but also the steady persistence of hope. By understanding the darker structures that restrict our imagination, we can seek to transform them. By recognizing the culture structures that sustain hope, we can allow our idealistic imaginations to gain more traction in the world. A work that will transform the way that sociologists think about culture and the social world, this book confirms Jeffrey Alexander's reputation as one of the major social theorists of our day.

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Oxford University Press

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0198036469

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Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought

Talcott Parsons

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought

Talcott Parsons

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a true peer of the classical founders, and examines his own profoundly ambivalent attempt to carry out this analytic transformation.

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598

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Routledge

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1317808606

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9781317808602

Action and Its Environments

Toward a New Synthesis

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Action and Its Environments

Toward a New Synthesis

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Jeffrey Alexander, known for his work in sociological theory, breaks new ground in Action and Its Environments. The book aims to bring action theory and structure theory back together by focussing on three central questions. First, how can the normative and material properties of social structures be interlinked? Second, can the conventional, creative and strategic dimensions of individual action be related to social structures? Third, what are conditions and limits of modern social and cultural differentiation?In answering these questions Alexander portrays the complex relationship between social movements, public opinion formation, social solidarity, and social change. A new model of the structure and dynamics of cultural systems is presented as well.

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Columbia University Press

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0231062087

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9780231062084

Meaning and Method

The Cultural Approach to Sociology

By: Isaac Reed,Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Meaning and Method

The Cultural Approach to Sociology

By: Isaac Reed,Jeffrey C. Alexander

Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the interpretation of culture and the explanation of social action to a new level of sophistication.

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1317256220

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9781317256229

Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Culture and Society in Transition

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander,Kenneth Thompson,Laura Desfor Edles

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Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Culture and Society in Transition

By: Jeffrey C. Alexander,Kenneth Thompson,Laura Desfor Edles

The first edition of A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology was the first truly new introductory sociology textbook in decades. Written by two leading sociologists at the cutting edge of theory and research, the text reflected the idioms and interests of contemporary American life and global social issues. The second edition continues to invite students to reflect upon their lives within the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the risks and potentialities of a postmodern era in which the futures of both the physical and social environment seem uncertain. As culture rapidly changes in the 21st century, the authors have broadened their analysis to cover developments in social media and new data on gender and transgender issues.

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1317264983

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9781317264989

Refounding Corporate Governance

The Metaphysics of Corporate Leadership

By: Bruce Cutting,Alexander Kouzmin

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Refounding Corporate Governance

The Metaphysics of Corporate Leadership

By: Bruce Cutting,Alexander Kouzmin

Re-founding Corporate Governance: The Metaphysics of Corporate Leadership is a deconstructive tour-de-force and leads the reader to an understanding of the further evolution of corporate governance in considered ways and brings them together in a coherent and understandable way. This book looks at the role of the individual in the organization and allows readers to reflect on their own role and interaction within their organization. It focuses particularly on leaders, managers and corporate board members and on how power and leadership in the corporation are operating now. The volume also look.

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Bentham Science Publishers

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1608052478

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9781608052479

Individualism

An Essay on the Authority of the European Union

By: Alexander Somek

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Individualism

An Essay on the Authority of the European Union

By: Alexander Somek

This innovative study examines the authority constituting the European Union. It claims that the type of power constituting a transnational regime transcends traditional forms of constitutional legality. It argues that the European constitutional project is out of step with the normative make-up of such a regime. It is to be feared, indeed, that the adoption of a Constitution for Europe would create a smokescreen obscuring a new and disturbing reality. Drawing on the ancient tradition of linking different types of political power with the composition of the citizen's soul, the book explains that a transnational regime is based on an understanding of citizenship that is different from that underlying a constitutional democracy. Citizens are deemed to be essentially separate from one another. They abandon the larger society to itself and pursue their good in the private sphere. In place of trust and reliance in their own power to bring about change through common action, they hope to benefit from entrusting "problem-solving" to international networks of expertise. Essentially, citizens of this kind exhibit a strong commitment to individualism. The book shows how individualism is reflected in the regulatory authority that the Union claims for itself, in particular as regards the regulation of the internal market.

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OUP Oxford

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0191562157

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9780191562150

Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry

By: Melanie K. Alexander

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Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry

By: Melanie K. Alexander

The Mississippi River town of Muscatine produced billions of pearl buttons. By 1905, Muscatine made 37 percent of the world's buttons and earned the title of "Pearl Button Capital of the World." The rise and fall of the pearl button occurred over a period of 75 years. John Frederick Boepple, a German immigrant button maker, launched the industry in 1891. The button and clamming industries started small but quickly overwhelmed the town. Clamming became the Mississippi River's gold rush while large automated factories and shell-cutting shops employed nearly half the local workforce. Entire families--men, women, and children--contributed to the industry, giving weight to the popular local saying "No Muscatine resident can enter Heaven without evidence of previous servitude in the button industry." Although the industry peaked in 1916, several decades passed before the American-made pearl button buckled under the pressure of foreign competition, changing fashion, limited availability of shell, and the development and refinement of plastic buttons.

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0738550930

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Book's by Alexander Weber

Refounding Political Governance

Refounding Political Governance

Explanation and Social Theory

Explanation and Social Theory

Cultural Theory

Cultural Theory

Theoretical Logic in Sociology

Theoretical Logic in Sociology

Model-based Interpretation of the Performance and Degradation of Reformate Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Model-based Interpretation of the Performance and Degradation of Reformate Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

The Dark Side of Modernity

The Dark Side of Modernity

The Meanings of Social Life

The Meanings of Social Life

Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought

Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought

Action and Its Environments

Action and Its Environments

Meaning and Method

Meaning and Method

Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Refounding Corporate Governance

Refounding Corporate Governance

Individualism

Individualism

Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry

Muscatine's Pearl Button Industry

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