Visions of the Sociological Tradition

Visions of the Sociological Tradition
Author: Donald N. Levine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 1995-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226475476

This book is a masterful account of the social science enterprise by one of its most accomplished practitioners. Moving from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day, Donald Levine offers a richly detailed, ingeniously organized introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought.

Visions of the Social

Visions of the Social
Author: Jean Terrier
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2011-06-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 900420153X

Taking the example of France between the Enlightenment and the Second World War and focusing especially on the connection between social theories and political projects, this book provides an original analysis of French scholarly debates on the nature of society.

A Conflict of Visions

A Conflict of Visions
Author: Thomas Sowell
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007-06-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0465004660

Thomas Sowell’s “extraordinary” explication of the competing visions of human nature lie at the heart of our political conflicts (New York Times) Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.

Visions of the People

Visions of the People
Author: Patrick Joyce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521447973

In examining how the laboring people of nineteenth-century England saw their social order, this text looks beyond class to reveal the significance of other sources of social identity and social imagery, including the notions of "the people" themselves.

Visions of Social Control

Visions of Social Control
Author: Stanley Cohen
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1991-01-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780745600215

Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. In Great Britain, North America and Western Europe, the 1960's saw new theories and styles of social control which seemed to undermine the whole basis of the established system. Such slogans as 'decarceration' and 'division' radically changed the dominance of the prison, the power of professionals and the crime-control system itself. Stanley Cohen traces the historical roots of these apparent changes and reforms, demonstrates in detail their often paradoxical results and speculates on the whole future of social control in Western societies. He has produced an entirely original synthesis of the original literature as well as an introductory guide to the major theoreticians of social control, such as David Rothman and Michael Foucault. This is not just a book for the specialist in criminology, social problems and the sociology of deviance but raises a whole range of issues of much wider interest to the social sciences. A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners. This is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to make sense of the bewildering recent shifts in ideology and policy towards crime - and to understand the broader sociological implications of the study of social control.

The Science of Social Vision: The Science of Social Vision

The Science of Social Vision: The Science of Social Vision
Author: Reginald B. Adams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2011
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0195333179

The human visual system is particularly attuned to and remarkably efficient at processing social cues. This text examines the functional and neuroanatomical mechanisms which underpin social vision.

Feminist Visions for Social Work

Feminist Visions for Social Work
Author: Nan Van Den Bergh
Publisher: N A S W Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1986
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Demonstrates how feminist visions can help social workers provide more holistic, ecological, and prevention-oriented services. An essential text for practitioners, educators and students.

Visions of Development

Visions of Development
Author: Peter Sutoris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Community development
ISBN: 9781849045711

Visions of Development examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analysing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on 'progress', his book highlights continuities with and departures from colonial notions of development in modern India. It is the first scholarly volume to be published on the history of Indian documentary film. Of the approximately 250 documentaries analysed by Peter Sutoris, many of which have never been discussed in the existing literature, most are concerned with economic planning and industrialisation, large dams, family planning, schemes aimed at the integration of tribal peoples (Adivasis) into society, and civic education. Almost all films analysed in this volume are available for free online viewing through the website of the Films Division. Links are provided on the companion website www.visionsofdevelopment.com.

Radical Visions and American Dreams

Radical Visions and American Dreams
Author: Richard H. Pells
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1973
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252067433

The Great Depression of the 1930s was more than an economic catastrophe to many American writers and artists. Attracted to Marxist ideals, they interpreted the crisis as a symptom of a deeper spiritual malaise that reflected the dehumanizing effects of capitalism, and they advocated more sweeping social changes than those enacted under the New Deal. In Radical Visions and American Dreams, Richard Pells discusses the work of Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edmund Wilson, and Orson Welles, among others. He analyzes developments in liberal reform, radical social criticism, literature, the theater, and mass culture, and especially the impact of Hollywood on depression-era America. By placing cultural developments against the background of the New Deal, the influence of the American Communist Party, and the coming of World War II, Pells explains how these artists and intellectuals wanted to transform American society, yet why they wound up defending the American Dream. A new preface enhances this classic work of American cultural history.

The Vision of Catholic Social Thought

The Vision of Catholic Social Thought
Author: Meghan J. Clark
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451484402

The Vision of Catholic Social Thought traces the emergence of solidarity and human rights as critical theological and philosophical pillars of the anthropology and ethics foundational to the development of Catholic social teaching. Meghan J. Clark argues that the integration of human rights and the virtue of solidarity at the root of the Catholic social tradition are the unique contributions Catholic thought makes to contemporary debates in ethics, political and philosophical theory. Building upon the historical framework of the development of Catholic social thought, drawing deeply from the papal encyclical tradition and the theological and ethical developments of Vatican II, Clark forwards a constructive vision of virtue and social practice, applying this critical question of human rights on the international stage.