Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism

Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism
Author: Jean-Louis Fabiani
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004442618

Can one speak dispassionately about Pierre Bourdieu? Jean-Louis Fabiani’s book is an attempt to apply Bourdieu’s analytical tools to his own work. Testing their limitations and their potential ambiguity allows the author to shed new light on the social genesis of his main concepts and on the complex relationship between science and politics.

The Centre of City: Urban Central Structure

The Centre of City: Urban Central Structure
Author: Beixiang Shi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9813366753

This book presents the latest research results related to urban center and urban center. It expounds the theoretical connotation, development models, hierarchical function, and spatial layout of the urban central structure through over 200 figures and tables. In addition, it analyzes the threshold characteristics, structural hierarchy, spatial characteristics, and development rules of urban central structure through field research and quantitative researches on the major urban central structures in Asia. Meanwhile, how to solve the issue of construction and layout of urban central structure in planning and design practice is also covered. The book reveals the laws and spatial characteristics of urban central structure and provides a valuable guide both for urban designers and planners as well as researchers and students working in urban design and planning fields. It sheds new light on better understanding of the urban central structure.

Sovereignty and Its Discontents

Sovereignty and Its Discontents
Author: William Rasch
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1859419844

Arguing for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political, this book puts forward the case for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'.

The Primacy of Grammar

The Primacy of Grammar
Author: Nirmalangshu Mukherji
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2010
Genre: Biolinguistics
ISBN: 026201405X

A proposal that the biolinguistic approach to human languages may have identified, beyond the study of language, a specific structure of the human mind.

The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality

The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality
Author: Melvin L. Kohn
Publisher: Union Bridge Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785270672

In The Development of a Theory of Social Structure and Personality Melvin Kohn, a pioneer in the cross-national, comparative and collaborative study of social structure and personality examines his sociological research spanning a six-decade career to articulate a theory of social structure and personality.

Central Problems in Social Theory

Central Problems in Social Theory
Author: Anthony Giddens
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total 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

Agency and Structure (RLE Social Theory)

Agency and Structure (RLE Social Theory)
Author: Piotr Sztompka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2014-08-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317652584

A striking feature of the human condition is its dual, contradictory, inherently split character; on the one hand, autonomy and freedom; on the other, constraint and dependence on social structure. This volume addresses this central problem of the linkage between human action and social structure in sociological and social science theory. Contributions cover several different approaches to the agency-structure problematic, and represent the work of a number of leading international sociologists. Their efforts point to a reorientation of social theory, both on philosophical and methodological levels.

Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations

Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations
Author: Pirkko Suihkonen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027205930

This book is a collection of articles dealing with various aspects of grammatical relations and argument structure in the languages of Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA). Topics covered with respect to individual languages are: split-intransitivity (Basque), causativization (Agul), transitives and causatives (Korean and Japanese), aspectual domain and quantification (Finnish and Udmurt), head-marking principles (Athabaskan languages), and pragmatics (Eastern Khanty and Xibe). Typology of argument-structure properties of 'give' (LENCA), typology of agreement systems, asymmetry in argument structure, typology of the Amdo Sprachbund, spatial realtors (Northeastern Turkic), core argument patterns (languages of Northern California), and typology of grammatical relations (LENCA) are the topics of articles based on cross-linguistic data. The broad empirical sweep and the fine-tuned theoretical analysis highlight the central role of argument structure and grammatical relations with respect to a plethora of linguistic phenomena.

A Philosophy for Communism

A Philosophy for Communism
Author: Panagiotis Sotiris
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2020-05-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004291369

In A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser Panagiotis Sotiris attempts a reading of the work of the French philosopher centered upon his deeply political conception of philosophy. Althusser’s endeavour is presented as a quest for a new practice of philosophy that would enable a new practice of politics for communism, in opposition to idealism and teleology. The central point is that in his trajectory from the crucial interventions of the 1960s to the texts on aleatory materialism, Althusser remained a communist in philosophy. This is based upon a reading of the tensions and dynamics running through Althusser’s work and his dialogue with other thinkers. Particular attention is paid to crucial texts by Althusser that remained unpublished until relatively recently. Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2021.

Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure

Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure
Author: Anne Maydan Nicotera
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2003-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135653054

Vol. examines problems related to task & relational orientations concerning organizational structure & function within preodominantly African-American organizations. For scholars & students in org comm, management, org psych, African studies.