Author: Publisher: EduGorilla Community Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN: 9369023860
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Authority
Author: Frank FurediPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107469899
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for authority – democratic consent, public opinion, science – yet Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority. It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question as one of the principal challenges facing society.
Author: Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Bulletin of the U.S. Antarctic Projects Officer
Author: United States. Antarctic Projects OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Market for Force
Author: Deborah D. AvantPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139446549
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers – including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.
The Social System
Author: Talcott ParsonsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134927746
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This book brings together, in systematic and generalized form, the main outlines of a conceptual scheme for the analysis of the structure and processes of social systems. It carries out Pareto's intention by using the "structural-functional" level of analysis.
The Fourth Ordeal
Author: Victor J. WilliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108830641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
A history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt based on first-person interviews with Brotherhood rank-and-file members.
The Socialist Industrial State
Author: David LanePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000881989
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union – where the goals and values of Marxism-Leninism and the particular institutions, the form of economy and polity, were first adopted and developed. It then considers the historical developments, differences in culture, the level of economic development and the political processes of different state-socialist countries around the globe.
Vaclav Havel
Author: John KeanePublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465011748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This authorized biography of Havel, based on unrestricted access to him, his circle, and even his enemies, is not only the first definitive account of one of the modern world's great moral and political leaders but also a vivid panorama of the tumultuous events of his times. Havel's life, like that of his African counterpart Nelson Mandela, has been shaped and determined by the large political shifts of the twentieth century. Readers will taste the moments of joy, irony, farce, and misfortune through which he has lived, and realize that he has taught the world more about the powerful and the powerless, power-grabbing and power-sharing, than virtually anyone else on the world stage.
In Search of God the Mother
Author: Lynn E. RollerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520210247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.
Gaveṣaṇam, Or, On the Track of the Cow ; And, In Search of the Mysterious Word ; And, In Search of the Hidden Light
Author: Sebastian J. CarriPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447042741
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Gavesanam deals with the Vedic discourse on many levels. It is mostly with the Rgvedic and the Yajurvedic texts, that is, with the hymns and the ritual texts, that it does so. The work shows a search for an insight into the highly cultivated poetic mind of the Rsis, which displays mystery and myth, knowledge and secrecy in their creations. The first two chapters illustrate with some clarity the method which is adopted in order to come to grips with a few of the symbolic and metaphorical, mythic and ritualistic texts and lays the foundation for the rest of the essay. The approach is interpretive and, therefore, necessarily speculative. In the main, the procedure is neither classificatory nor descriptive of the texts, since many scholars have done excellent work in this manner. The present exercise highlights the importance of the Vedic Ida, the Vedic World, the Vedic gods and goddesses like the Mitravaruna, Agni, Vak, Visnu, Sarasvat, Soma, and so on, from an interpretive point of view. A few figures make comprehension easier and more concrete. The work as a whole may be considered to be a long essay of progressive approximations, which means that the thoughts that are presented have to be corrected and complemented by further approximations in a truly academic and scientific spirit. Such an effort opens a new way for a better understanding and appreciation of the Vedic and the post-Vedic literature and culture.
