System, Structure, and Contradiction
Title | System, Structure, and Contradiction PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Friedman |
Publisher | Rowman Altamira |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0585246599 |
The first edition of System, Structure, and Contradiction was an important step in merging the materialist determinism of the structuralist Marxists with the cultural, ideological approach favored by anthropologists. By reconciling these two traditionally warring schools of thought, the author provided a more nuanced understanding of the various factors that drive social change and social complexity. Though viewed through the lens of an ethnographic and historical case study of the Kachin of Burman, Friedman's theory has had a major impact on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists, world-systems scholars, and Marxist theorists alike. This new edition of Friedman's much-cited work contains the full text of the original volume (never published in North America) along with two related articles by the author, and a comprehensive new introduction that brings his theoretical notions, and the debate over this book, to the present. A classic work of anthropological and social theory, it will be of interest to scholars and their advanced students in anthropology and related disciplines.
Central Problems in Social Theory
Title | Central Problems in Social Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Giddens |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1979-11-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780520039759 |
"One of the most creative among the younger generation of critical social theorists, Giddens stands alone in his concern for the classical tradition on sociology; but he also makes brilliant use of the latest philosophical and theoretical work of several contemporary schools and disciplines. A very important book for all of social science."—Jeffrey C. Alexander
System, Structure, and Contradiction in the Evolution of "Asiatic" Social Formations
Title | System, Structure, and Contradiction in the Evolution of "Asiatic" Social Formations PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Friedman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 1975 |
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System, Structure and Contradiction in the Evolution of Asiaviv Social Formations
Title | System, Structure and Contradiction in the Evolution of Asiaviv Social Formations PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Ames Friedman |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1972 |
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Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency
Title | Contradictions, from Consistency to Inconsistency PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Carnielli |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2018-10-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3319987976 |
This volume investigates what is beyond the Principle of Non-Contradiction. It features 14 papers on the foundations of reasoning, including logical systems and philosophical considerations. Coverage brings together a cluster of issues centered upon the variety of meanings of consistency, contradiction, and related notions. Most of the papers, but not all, are developed around the subtle distinctions between consistency and non-contradiction, as well as among contradiction, inconsistency, and triviality, and concern one of the above mentioned threads of the broadly understood non-contradiction principle and the related principle of explosion. Some others take a perspective that is not too far away from such themes, but with the freedom to tread new paths. Readers should understand the title of this book in a broad way,because it is not so obvious to deal with notions like contradictions, consistency, inconsistency, and triviality. The papers collected here present groundbreaking ideas related to consistency and inconsistency.
The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
Title | The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317808673 |
This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. While most recent interpreters of Marx have placed alienation and subjectivity at the centre of his work, Professor Alexander suggests that it was the later Marx’s very emphasis on alienation that allowed him to avoid conceptualizing subjectivity altogether. In Durkheim’s case, by contrast, the author argues that such objectivist theorizing informed the early work alone, and he demonstrates that in his later writings Durkheim elaborated an idealist theory that used religious life as an analytical model for studying the institutions of secular society.
Sociology of Law as the Science of Norms
Title | Sociology of Law as the Science of Norms PDF eBook |
Author | Håkan Hydén |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2021-12-28 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1000533107 |
This book proposes the study of norms as a method of explaining human choice and behaviour by introducing a new scientific perspective. The science of norms may here be broadly understood as a social science which includes elements from both the behavioural and legal sciences. It is given that a science of norms is not normative in the sense of prescribing what is right or wrong in various situations. Compared with legal science, sociology of law has an interest in the operational side of legal rules and regulation. This book develops a synthesizing social science approach to better understand societal development in the wake of the increasingly significant digital technology. The underlying idea is that norms as expectations today are not primarily related to social expectations emanating from human interactions but come from systems that mankind has created for fulfilling its needs. Today the economy, via the market, and technology via digitization, generate stronger and more frequent expectations than the social system. By expanding the sociological understanding of norms, the book makes comparisons between different parts of society possible and creates a more holistic understanding of contemporary society. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers in the areas of sociology of law, legal theory, philosophy of law, sociology and social psychology.