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The Way of Tea and Justice: Rescuing the World's Favorite Beverage from Its Violent History
by Reverend Becca StevensWhat started as an impossible dream-to build a café that employs women recovering from prostitution and addiction-is helping to fuel an astonishing movement to bring freedom and fair wages to women producers worldwide where tea and trafficking are linked by oppression and the opiate wars. Becca Stevens started the Thistle Stop Café to empower women survivors. But when she discovered a connection between café workers and tea laborers overseas, she embarked on a global mission called "Shared Trade" to increase the value of women survivors and producers across the globe. As she recounts the victories and unexpected challenges of building the café, Becca also sweeps the reader into the world of tea, where timeless rituals transport to an era of beauty and the challenging truths about tea's darker, more violent history. She offers moving reflections of the meaning of tea in our lives, plus recipes for tea blends that readers can make themselves. In this journey of triumph for impoverished tea laborers, hope for café workers, and insight into the history of tea, Becca sets out to defy the odds and prove that love is the most powerful force for transformation on earth.
Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society
by David Howes Constance ClassenWays of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.
Ways of Sensing: Understanding the Senses In Society
by David Howes Constance ClassenWays of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.
We Are What We Sell [3 volumes]: How Advertising Shapes American Life. . . and Always Has [3 volumes]
by Danielle Sarver Coombs Bob BatchelorFor the last 150 years, advertising has created a consumer culture in the United States, shaping every facet of American life—from what we eat and drink to the clothes we wear and the cars we drive.In the United States, advertising has carved out an essential place in American culture, and advertising messages undoubtedly play a significant role in determining how people interpret the world around them. This three-volume set examines the myriad ways that advertising has influenced many aspects of 20th-century American society, such as popular culture, politics, and the economy. Advertising not only played a critical role in selling goods to an eager public, but it also served to establish the now world-renowned consumer culture of our country and fuel the notion of "the American dream."The collection spotlights the most important advertising campaigns, brands, and companies in American history, from the late 1800s to modern day. Each fact-driven essay provides insight and in-depth analysis that general readers will find fascinating as well as historical details and contextual nuance students and researchers will greatly appreciate. These volumes demonstrate why advertising is absolutely necessary, not only for companies behind the messaging, but also in defining what it means to be an American.
We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism
by Alf Gunvald Nilsen Laurence CoxWe live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this - 'ya basta!' - appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India to the cities of the global North. *BR**BR*From this network of movements, new visions are emerging of a future beyond neoliberalism. We Make Our Own History responds to these visions by reclaiming Marxism as a theory born from activist experience and practice. *BR**BR*This book marks a break both with established social movement theory, and with those forms of Marxism which treat the practice of social movement organising as an unproblematic process. It shows how movements can develop from local conflicts to global struggles; how neoliberalism operates as a social movement from above, and how popular struggles can create new worlds from below.
We Should All Be Feminists (PDF)
by Chimamanda Adichie‘I would like to ask that we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently…’ What does “feminism” mean today? In this personal, eloquently argued essay – adapted from her much-admired Tedx talk of the same name – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now – an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
Wealth, Income Inequalities, and Demography: The Long-Term Policy View
by Luigi PaganettoIn this book, leading experts take a long-term view of the trends and policies of most relevance in achieving the structural readjustment required by the current crisis, which for too long has been viewed merely as an economic recession. A wide variety of issues are addressed, including the implications of the massive movement of wealth from advanced countries to emerging ones and the increasing income inequality evident within many countries. Prospects for growth toward the mid-century and beyond are discussed, with consideration of lessons from the past and the impact of various constraints, including corruption. The policies and reforms required to restore economic dynamism within the EU and more generally, to foster the “Good Economy” are discussed, recognizing the need for measures to promote innovation, entrepreneurship, well-being and high levels of environmental performance. The book comprises a selection of contributions presented at the XXV Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar. For the past quarter of a century, this seminar has brought together leading experts to engage in debates on pressing economic questions. This book, based on the most recent gathering, will be of interest to all who are concerned about the challenges to growth, well-being and social inclusion that will have to be confronted in the coming decades.
Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America
by Heather S. OrrWearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern Mesoamerica, the Gulf Coast Olmec region (Olman), and the Maya lowlands, this book demonstrates that adornment was used as a tool for communicating status, social relationships, power, gender, sexuality, behavior, and political, ritual, and religious identities. Despite considerable formal and technological variation in clothing and ornamentation, the early indigenous cultures of these regions shared numerous practices, attitudes, and aesthetic interests. Contributors address technological development, manufacturing materials and methods, nonfabric ornamentation, symbolic dimensions, representational strategies, and clothing as evidence of interregional sociopolitical exchange. Focusing on an important period of cultural and artistic development through the lens of costuming and adornment, Wearing Culture will be of interest to scholars of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.
Wege aus der Arbeitslosigkeit: MINIPRENEURE. Chancen um das Leben neu zu gestalten – Zur Bewältigung von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit (Integrative Modelle in Psychotherapie, Supervision und Beratung)
by Peter Hartz Hilarion G. PetzoldArbeitslosigkeit und Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit gehören zu den gravierenden Problemen moderner Gesellschaften in dynamischen, globalen Wirtschaftszusammenhängen. Berufliche Normalbiographien bieten oft keine verlässlichen Sicherheiten mehr. Verlieren Menschen ihre Arbeit, kann daraus leicht eine Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit werden mit gravierenden Folgen für die soziale Situation und die psychische und physische Gesundheit. Aus dieser Situation herauszukommen ist sehr schwierig. Viele sind ohne besondere Hilfen chancenlos. - Hier wird von einem Projekt berichtet, in dem arbeitslose Männer und Frauen mit der Unterstützung engagierter Experten aus Wissenschaft (Psychologie, Neurobiologie, Sozialforschung), aus Wirtschaft und Management, aus Beratung und Coaching Wege aus der Arbeitslosigkeit suchen und finden durch einen innovativen Ansatz sozialer Strategienbildung, durch wechselseitige Hilfeleistung und methodische Neuorganisation ihrer Lebenssituation. Sie machen „sich selbst zum Projekt“. Talentdiagnostik hilft ihnen, ihre Stärken zu erkennen, gemeinsam werden mit dem „Beschäftigungsradar“ Arbeitsmöglichkeiten gesucht und geschaffen. Als „Minipreneure“ mit kleinen Unternehmungen fangen sie an und werden dabei in ihren Initiativen unterstützt, in neuen Jobfamilies und Dienstleistungen Fuß zu fassen. Das Projekt entstand aus dem Engagement, arbeitslose Mitbürgerinnen und Mitbürger nicht allein zu lassen und traf auf Menschen, die ihr Leben neu gestalten wollten. Das Buch stellt Methoden, Theoriekonzepte, Praxis und Erfahrungen vor und will zu Initiativen ermutigen
Wege aus der Armut für Alleinerziehende: Eine Analyse der Partner- und Arbeitsmarktchancen
by Tanja KrausDer Arbeitsmarkt und der Partnermarkt sind potenzielle Möglichkeiten für Alleinerziehende, Armut zu beenden. Tanja Kraus untersucht, welche dieser armutsvermeidenden Handlungsalternativen erfolgversprechender ist. Mit Hilfe von diskreten Ereignisdatenanalysen analysiert sie auf der Datengrundlage des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Ressourcen und Restriktionen von Alleinerziehenden auf den beiden Teilmärkten und wägt sie gegeneinander ab. Zentrales Ergebnis ist, dass sich die beiden Wege nicht ausschließen, sondern vielmehr wechselseitig positiv beeinflussen.
Weiterbildung in Hessen: Eine mehrperspektivische Analyse (Theorie und Empirie Lebenslangen Lernens)
by Michael Schemmann Wolfgang SeitterDie Beiträge dieses Bandes fokussieren das breite Anbieterspektrum der hessischen Weiterbildung. Sie fragen nach den ministeriellen Steuerungsformen, über die die hessische Weiterbildung adressiert wird, systematisieren Formen, Räume, Akteure und Inhalte der professionellen (Selbst-)Reflexion und analysieren die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung der hessischen Bevölkerung. Die vorliegende Studie ist eine erweiterte Fassung des zweiten Hessischen Weiterbildungsberichts, den die Herausgeber 2011 vorgelegt haben.
The Welfare State and the 'Deviant Poor' in Europe, 1870-1933
by Beate Althammer Andreas Gestrich Jens GründlerThe strife for social improvement that arose in the decades around the turn of the 20th century raised the issue of social conformity in new ways: how were citizens who did not adhere to the rules to be dealt with? This edited collection opens new perspectives on the history of the emerging welfare state by focusing on its margins.
Wenn Würde zur Ware verkommt: Soziale Ungleichheit, Teilhabe und Verwirklichung eines Rechts auf Wohnraum
by Rolf Keicher Stefan GillichIn diesem Band werden die Zugangsschwierigkeiten von Menschen zum allgemeinen Wohnungsmarkt aufgezeigt. Dieser hat von sich aus kein Interesse an einer Wohnungsversorgung für alle und gehorcht anderen Gesetzen. Ohne Wohnung leben zu müssen heißt nicht nur, grundlegender Rechte beraubt zu sein, sondern sich vielfältiger Vorurteile erwehren zu müssen. Die Ausgegrenzten haben häufig andere kulturelle Hintergründe oder mit psychischen Schwierigkeiten zu kämpfen. Unterschiedliche Modelle einer begleitenden Beratung zur Stabilisierung von Wohnverhältnissen werden ebenso dargestellt wie Kooperationsformen zu benachbarten Arbeitsfeldern in der Wohnungslosenhilfe.
Werbekommunikation: Entwurf einer kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Theorie der Werbung
by Nils S. BorchersWerbekommunikation geht weit über die Verbreitung massenmedialer, bezahlter Werbeanzeigen in der Wirtschaft hinaus. Der soziale Mechanismus, der ihr zugrunde liegt, lässt sich potenziell in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft entdecken und tritt in den unterschiedlichsten Formen auf. Nils S. Borchers diskutiert diese Vielfältigkeit der Werbekommunikation und untersucht insbesondere die Funktion, die der Werbung als Kommunikationsform zukommt. In interdisziplinärer Auseinandersetzung mit bestehenden Werbekonzepten entwirft er eine Theorie appellierender Kommunikation, die Werbung von anderen Formen des Appells wie Empfehlung und Befehl unterscheidet. Der aus dieser Theorie abgeleitete Werbebegriff überwindet die vorherrschenden ontologischen Vorstellungen des Werbediskurses und erlaubt den Anschluss der Werbeforschung an aktuelle Kommunikationstheorien – mit überraschenden Konsequenzen für einen spezifisch kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Werbebegriff.
The Wessex Hillforts Project: Extensive Survey of Hillfort Interiors in Central Southern England (English Heritage)
by Andrew Payne Mark Corney Barry CunliffeThe earthwork forts that crown many hills in Southern England are among the largest and most dramatic of the prehistoric features that still survive in our modern rural landscape. The Wessex Hillforts Survey collected wide-ranging data on hillfort interiors in a three-year partnership between the former Ancient Monuments Laboratory of English Heritage and Oxford University. These defended enclosures, occupied from the end of the Bronze Age to the last few centuries before the Roman conquest, have long attracted archaeological interest and their function remains central to study of the Iron Age. The communal effort and high degree of social organistation indicated by hillforts feeds debate about whether they were strongholds of Celtic chiefs, communal centres of population or temporary gathering places occupied seasonally or in times of unrest. Yet few have been extensively examined archaeologically. Using non-invasive methods, the survey enabled more elaborate distinctions to be made between different classes of hillforts than has hitherto been possible. The new data reveals not only the complexity of the archaeological record preserved inside hillforts, but also great variation in complexity among sites. Survey of the surrounding coutnryside revealed hillforts to be far from isolated features in the later prehistoric landscape. Many have other less visible, forms of enclosed settlement in close proximity. Others occupy significant meeting points of earlier linear ditch systems and some appear to overlie, or be located adjacent to, blocks of earlier prehistoric field systems.
West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1968–1974: Between Cold War and Colonialism (Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World)
by R. LopesWest Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship 1968-1974 examines West Germany's ambiguous policy towards the Portuguese dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano. Lopes sheds new light on the social, economic, military, and diplomatic dimensions of the awkward relationship between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Caetano regime.
Western Aid at a Crossroads: The End of Paternalism
by O. Eggen K. RolandThe new growth patterns and shifting wealth in the world economy fundamentally alter the basis for Western aid. This book demonstrates how Western development aid has been transformed over time, in particular in the 1990s, when the West enjoyed world hegemony. Western aid, once a helping hand to other countries' development strategies, has increasingly been seen as a tool for large-scale attempts to transform states, societies and minds according to Western models. The authors claim that this has made aid more complex and less useful to poor countries in their fight against poverty. Emerging economies, such as China, have demonstrated that other paths to growth and poverty alleviation are available. They are attractive partners in development, offering collaboration without paternalism. Most poor countries experience growth, and are able to finance development with homegrown resources or in collaboration with non-Western partners. Having other options, they may increasingly challenge and reject Western aid if it is accompanied with goals of transforming the recipients based on Western blueprints. The authors claim that aid has a role in the fight against poverty in the future, but only if Western donors are willing to adapt to the new world order, leave paternalism behind and rethink their role in development. Donors must change the way they relate to poor sovereign states, redefine the meaning of 'development', and reinvent aid to make it simpler and more manageable.
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases
by Howard S. BeckerIn 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases. Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases
by Howard S. BeckerIn 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases. Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases
by Howard S. BeckerIn 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases. Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases
by Howard S. BeckerIn 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases. Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases
by Howard S. BeckerIn 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases. Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.
What About Mozart? What About Murder?: Reasoning From Cases
by Howard S. BeckerIn 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases. Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.
What Holism Can Do for Social Theory (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought #91)
by Barbara HansonThis book reconsiders the nature of positivist philosophy in social science theory based on classical and medieval thought in what later became "Europe." It argues that social theory is being held back by antagonistic debates over science, positivism, objectivity, and universal law - debates which appear unnecessary, narrow, and acontextual when their origins are examined. Positing that solutions to these impasses can be found by moving to alternative holistic epistemology, and looking at issues in terms of interrelations rather than parts, the book shows the promise of a social theory that provides a unit of analysis that mediates between local and global relations.
What Holism Can Do for Social Theory (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
by Barbara HansonThis book reconsiders the nature of positivist philosophy in social science theory based on classical and medieval thought in what later became "Europe." It argues that social theory is being held back by antagonistic debates over science, positivism, objectivity, and universal law - debates which appear unnecessary, narrow, and acontextual when their origins are examined. Positing that solutions to these impasses can be found by moving to alternative holistic epistemology, and looking at issues in terms of interrelations rather than parts, the book shows the promise of a social theory that provides a unit of analysis that mediates between local and global relations.