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Paradoxes of Individualization

Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity

By: Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Willem de Koster

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Paradoxes of Individualization

Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity

By: Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Willem de Koster

Paradoxes of Individualization addresses one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary sociology: whether a process of individualization is liberating selves from society so as to make them the authors of their personal biographies. The book adopts a cultural-sociological approach that firmly rejects such a notion of individualization as naïve. The process is instead conceptualized as an increasing social significance of moral notions of individual liberty, personal authenticity and cultural tolerance, which informs two paradoxes. Firstly, chapters about consumer behavior, computer gaming, new age spirituality and right-wing extremism demonstrate that this individualism entails a new, yet often unacknowledged, form of social control. The second paradox, addressed in chapters about religious, cultural and political conflict, is concerned with the fact that it is precisely individualism's increased social significance that has made it morally and politically contested. Paradoxes of Individualization, will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of cultural sociology, cultural anthropology, political science, and cultural, religious and media studies, and particularly to those with interests in social theory, culture, politics and religion.

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Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

By: Dick Houtman

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Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

By: Dick Houtman

Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are untenable at a more general theoretical level. Despite differences among advocates of class explanations, their theories are based on largely identical research findings--in particular a strong negative relationship between education and authoritarianism. Unobstructed by the conclusions these authors felt called upon to draw from the findings themselves, Houtman configures them in a new way. The hypotheses derived from this new theory allow for a systematic, strict, and competitive testing of original theses without ignoring the value of and earlier research. After demonstrating that authoritarianism and libertarianism cannot be explained by class or economic background, Houtman examines the implications of this argument for today's death of class debate in political sociology. He holds it to be unfortunate that the relevance of class to politics is typically addressed by studying the relation between class and voting. This conceals a complex cross-pressure mechanism that causes this relationship to capture the net balance of class voting and its opposite, cultural voting, instead of class voting. He argues that references to a decline in class voting may be basically correct, but dogmatic reliance on the relation between class and voting to prove the point systematically underestimates levels of class voting and produces an exaggerated picture of the decline.

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1351528211

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Farewell to the Leftist Working Class

By: Dick Houtman,Peter Achterberg,Anton Derks

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Farewell to the Leftist Working Class

By: Dick Houtman,Peter Achterberg,Anton Derks

Social conflicts and voting patterns in Western nations indicate a gradual erosion of working-class support for the left, a process that class theory itself cannot adequately explain. Farewell to the Leftist Working Class aims to fill this gap by developing, testing, and confirming an alternative explanation of rightist tendencies among the underprivileged. The authors argue that cultural issues revolving around individual liberty and maintenance of social order have become much more significant since World War II. The obligation to work and strict notions of deservingness have become central to the debate about the welfare state. Indeed, although economic egalitarianism is more typically found among the working class, it is only firmly connected to a universalistic and inclusionary progressive political ideology among the middle class. Farewell to the Leftist Working Class reports cutting-edge research into the withering away of working-class support for the left and the welfare state, drawing mostly on survey data collected in Western Europe, the United States, and other Western countries.

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141280910X

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The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming

Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia

By: Howard Dick,Michael Sullivan,John Butcher

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The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming

Business Elites and the Emergence of the Modern State in Southeast Asia

By: Howard Dick,Michael Sullivan,John Butcher

Until the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies. Yet by about 1920 all of the major farms had been abolished and the collection of revenue brought under direct bureaucratic control. This book explains the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming, traces the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms, and uses the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia.

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Springer

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134922877X

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Wood Modification Technologies

Principles, Sustainability, and the Need for Innovation

By: Dick Sandberg,Andreja Kutnar,Olov Karlsson,Dennis Jones

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Wood Modification Technologies

Principles, Sustainability, and the Need for Innovation

By: Dick Sandberg,Andreja Kutnar,Olov Karlsson,Dennis Jones

The market for durable products using modified wood has increased substantially during the last few years. This is partly because of the restriction on the use of toxic preservatives due to environmental concerns, and to lower maintenance cost and time. Furthermore, as sustainability becomes a greater concern, the environmental impact of construction and interior materials is factored in planning by considering the whole life cycle and embodied energy of the materials used. Wood is modified to improve its intrinsic properties, enhance the range of applications of timber, and to acquire the form and functionality desired by engineers without calling the environmental friendliness into question. Wood modification processes are at various stages of development, and the challenges faced in scaling up to industrial applications differ. The aim of this book is to put together the key elements of the changes of wood constituents and the related changes in wood properties of modified wood. Further, a selection of the principal technologies implemented in wood modification are presented. This work is intended for researchers, professionals of timber construction, as well as students studying the science of materials, civil engineering and architecture. This work is not exhaustive, but intends to deliver an outline of the scientific disciplines necessary to apprehend the technologies of wood modification and its behavior during treatment, as well as during its use.

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CRC Press

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1351028200

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The Ashes of Waco

An Investigation

By: Dick J. Reavis

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The Ashes of Waco

An Investigation

By: Dick J. Reavis

This is the story the daily press didn't give us. It may be the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, examined from both sides—the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and David Koresh and his followers on the other. Dick J. Reavis contends that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh and even less to raid the compound at Mt. Carmel. The government lied to the public about most of what happened—about who fired the first shots, about drug allegations, about child abuse. The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Carmel-and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people. Drawing on interviews with survivors of Koresh's movement (which dates back to 1935), as well as from esoteric religious tracts and audiotapes, and previously undisclosed government documents, Reavis uncovers the real story of the burning at Waco, including the trial that followed. The author quotes from Koresh himself to create an extraordinary portrait of a movement, an assault, and an avoidable tragedy.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815605021

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Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

By: Dick Houtman

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Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Marxism Lite and Its Blind Spot for Culture

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Farewell to the Leftist Working Class

By: Dick Houtman,Peter Achterberg,Anton Derks

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Paradoxes of Individualization

Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity

By: Dick Houtman,Stef Aupers,Willem de Koster

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Social Control and Social Conflict in Contemporary Modernity

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Paradoxes of Individualization

Paradoxes of Individualization

Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Farewell to the Leftist Working Class

Farewell to the Leftist Working Class

The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming

The Rise and Fall of Revenue Farming

Wood Modification Technologies

Wood Modification Technologies

The Ashes of Waco

The Ashes of Waco

Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Class and Politics in Contemporary Social Science

Farewell to the Leftist Working Class

Farewell to the Leftist Working Class

Paradoxes of Individualization

Paradoxes of Individualization

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