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Discourses of Power

From Hobbes to Foucault

By: Barry Hindess

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Discourses of Power

From Hobbes to Foucault

By: Barry Hindess

In this accessible yet provocative text Barry Hindess provides a new interpretation of concepts of power within Western social thought, from Hobbes' notion of "sovereign power" to Foucault's account of "government". This book will be welcomed as an important contemporary contribution to one of the key debates in social and political theory.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631190937

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Freedom, Equality, and the Market

Arguments on Social Policy

By: Barry Hindess

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Freedom, Equality, and the Market

Arguments on Social Policy

By: Barry Hindess

This new textbook for students of social theory considers the role of public intervention in social and economic processes. It is a clear, critical discussion of different theoretical and political perspectives on social policy. Freedom, Equality, and the Market, with its careful assessment of the key texts, will be important reading for undergraduate students of sociology and social policy.

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Psychology Press

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0422794805

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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)

By: Barry Hindess

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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)

By: Barry Hindess

Choice, Rationality and Social Theory is a powerful rebuttal of the remarkably influential theories underlying 'rational choice analysis'. Rational choice analysis maintains that social life is principally to be explained as the outcome of rational choices on the part of individual actors. Adherents of this view include not only philosophers, political scientists and sociologists, but also prominent politicians in Western governments – notably of the United Kingdom and the United States. Rational choice analysis is said to be rigorous, capable of great technical sophistication, and able to generate powerful explanations on the basis of a few, relatively simple theoretical assumptions. Barry Hindess argues that the theory is seriously deficient, first, because there are important actors in the modern world other than human individuals, and second, because it says nothing about those processes of deliberation that play an important part in actors' decisions. The use of highly questionable assumptions about actors and their rationality has the effect of closing off important areas of intellectual inquiry and ignoring the reality of certain forms of thought and the social conditions on which they depend. These points are established through detailed examination of the concepts of the actor and of rationality – providing an overall argument that constitutes a serious challenge to any adherent of rational choice analysis.

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Routledge

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1317652142

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Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today

By: Tony Cutler,Barry Hindess,Athar Hussain,Paul Q. Hirst

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Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today

By: Tony Cutler,Barry Hindess,Athar Hussain,Paul Q. Hirst

This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx’s theory of value and considers the types of questions and modes of analysis to which this theory leads. In the second part the nature and implications of necessary economic ‘laws of tendency’ in the capitalist mode of production are covered. Finally there is an analysis of the role of class structure and economic agents in Marxist theory.

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Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 52

By: Tony Cutler,Barry Hindess,Athar Hussain,Paul Q.Hirst

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Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 52

By: Tony Cutler,Barry Hindess,Athar Hussain,Paul Q.Hirst

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Foucault, Marxism and Critique

By: Barry Smart

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Foucault, Marxism and Critique

By: Barry Smart

In this work, originally released in 1983, Barry Smart examines the relevance of Foucault's work for developing an understanding of those issues which lie beyond the limits of Marxist theory and analysis - issues such as 'individualising' forms of power, power-knowledge relations, the rise of 'the social', and the associated socialisation of politics. He argues that there exist clear and substantial differences between Foucault's genealogical analysis and that of Marxist theory. Smart thus presents Foucault's work as a new form of critical theory, whose object is a critical analysis of rationalities, and of how relations of power are rationalised.

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1135174598

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Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis

A Critical Discussion of the Theory and Practice of a Science of Society

By: Barry Smart

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Sociology, Phenomenology and Marxian Analysis

A Critical Discussion of the Theory and Practice of a Science of Society

By: Barry Smart

Sociology is an established academic discipline but there has been continuing debate over its status as a science and the nature of its subject matter. This led to the emergence of a phenomenological sociology and to critiques of positivist sociology. This critical reappraisal of the relevance of Marxian analysis for a science of society shows how these developments within sociology have had their counterpart in Marxism. The author analyses the status of Marx’s work and the Marxist ‘tradition’ in sociology. He focuses upon those concerns which are common to both Marxian analysis and sociology – the question of subjectivity; the nature of social reality; and the dialectical relationship of the ‘doing’ or practice of a science of society to the social world within which such social analyses are situated. Originally published in 1976.

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1134479808

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Insurance as Governance

By: Richard V. Ericson,Aaron Doyle,Dean Barry,Diana Ericson

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Insurance as Governance

By: Richard V. Ericson,Aaron Doyle,Dean Barry,Diana Ericson

Analyzes how the tactics and strategies of insurers help govern our "risk society". [back cover].

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University of Toronto Press

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0802085741

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The Political Economy of Classical Athens

A Naval Perspective

By: Barry O’Halloran

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The Political Economy of Classical Athens

A Naval Perspective

By: Barry O’Halloran

Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece. In the face of increasingly compelling arguments for the existence of a market economy in classical Athens, the Finleyan orthodoxy is finally relinquishing its long dominion. In this book, Barry O’Halloran seeks to contribute to this renewed debate by re-interrogating the ancient evidence using more recent economic interpretative frameworks. The aim is to re-evaluate accepted orthodoxies and present the economic history of this emblematic city-state in a new light. More specifically, it analyses the economic foundations of Athens through the prism of its navy. Its macroeconomic approach utilises an employment-demand model through which enormous naval defence expenditures created an exceptional period of demand-led economic growth.

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BRILL

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9004386157

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The Elements of Social Theory

By: Barry Barnes

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The Elements of Social Theory

By: Barry Barnes

Over the past quarter century, social theory has moved in diverse and often seemingly incompatible directions, exaggerating differences of approach that existed even in earlier periods. In a strikingly original book, Barry Barnes uses this intellectual diversity not only to identify but also to unify the central ways of looking at the field. Barnes frames his task by addressing the most important problem confronting all students of society today: the apparent conflict between cultural and functional methods of describing the social order, on one hand, and choice-theoretic accounts, on the other. But rather than reviewing in detail the origins and development of these contending views of reality, Barnes conducts a dialogue between the two perspectives, thereby revealing their respective strengths and shortcomings. In the process, he develops a case for a theoretical "third way," an interactionist understanding of the workings of the social order and the emergence of behavioral norms. Barnes successfully applies interactionist analysis, formerly used mostly for micro-social settings, to macro-phenomena like the formation of status groups, the origin of social movements, the politics of class formation, and the dynamics of bureaucratic action. He shows how these phenomena are inexplicable in terms of exclusively cultural- functional or choice-theoretic methods: they can be understood only by showing how norms emerge through interaction. Barnes has constructed a coherent and learned vision of the fundamentals of social theory that will excite not only sociologists but all social scientists and their students. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400864356

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Protests, Land Rights, and Riots

Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

By: Barry Morris

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Protests, Land Rights, and Riots

Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s

By: Barry Morris

Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." - Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." - Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." - Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system. In Protests, Land Rights, and Riots, Barry Morris shows how neoliberal policies in Australia targeted those who were least integrated socially and culturally, and who enjoyed fewer legitimate economic opportunities. Amidst intense political debate, struggle, and conflict, new forces were unleashed as a post-settler colonial state grappled with its past. Morris provides a social analysis of the ensuing effects of neoliberal policy and the way indigenous rights were subsequently undermined by this emerging new political orthodoxy in the 1990s. Barry Morris is the author of Domesticating Resistance, Race Matters and Expert Knowledge. He is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Newcastle.

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Berghahn Books

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1782385371

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Choice, Rationality and Social Theory (RLE Social Theory)

By: Barry Hindess

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Routledge Revivals: Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production (1975)

By: Paul Q. Hirst,Barry Hindess

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Routledge Revivals: Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production (1975)

By: Paul Q. Hirst,Barry Hindess

First published in 1975, this book investigates the various pre-capitalist modes of production briefly indicated in the works of Marx and Engels, and gives an examination of the conditions of the transition from one mode of production to another. The fundamental concepts used in these investigations, including those of mode of production, of necessary labour and surpass labour, of politics and state, are derived from Capital and from other works of Marxist theory. The primary aim of the analysis is to raise the conceptualisation of pre-capitalist modes of production and of transition to a more rigorous level. This book will appear controversial to both Marxists and non-Marxists alike.

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1351358588

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Routledge Revivals: Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production (1975)

By: Paul Q. Hirst,Barry Hindess

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By: Paul Q. Hirst,Barry Hindess

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Freedom, Equality, and the Market

Arguments on Social Policy

By: Barry Hindess

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Arguments on Social Policy

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Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 52

By: Tony Cutler,Barry Hindess,Athar Hussain,Paul Q.Hirst

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Us and Them

Anti-elitism in Australia

By: Barry Hindess

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Us and Them

Anti-elitism in Australia

By: Barry Hindess

This title responds to the emergence of new public discourse on anti- elitism. It brings together contributions from a range of perspectives and methodological approaches - historical enquiry, survey and public opinion research and discourse analysis - in order to investigate this new form of populism and its consequences.

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API Network Australia Research Institute Curtin University O

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