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This volume discusses, and manifests, three interrelated perspectives in social theory. First, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is theoretical: there are alternative perspectives, or theories, about any phenomenon. Second, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge is political: these alternative perspectives are contested, as they are related to different groups with different interests. Third, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is social: alternative perspectives have alternative social causes and alternative social effects.

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Author:   Jennifer M. Lehmann
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   JAI Press Inc.
Volume:   23
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780762312368

ISBN 10:   076231236
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   01 October 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Before and Beneath other Conflicts: Fourth World Social Theory. About that Bering Strait Land Bridge Bridge ...A Study in the Falsity of ""Scientific Truth"". Part II: A Contemporary Argument ""For Social Theory"". For Social Theory: Alvin Gouldner's Last Project and Beyond. Part III: Contemporary Conflicts Over Social Policy Argued in Social Theory. The Mayberry Machiavellians in Power: A Critical Analysis of the Bush Administration through a Synthesis of Machiavelli, Goffman, and Foucault. Globalization or Hyper-Alienation? Critiques of Traditional Marxism as Arguments for Basic Income. Part IV: Religion, Morality, Ethics? In Modernity, Postmodernity? The Conceptual Common Denominator Between Bellah, Giddens and Habermas and its Significance. Reconstructing Zygmunt Bauman's Postmodern Sociology of Morality. Beyond Negative Rights: Living without Certainty, Social Change and the Possibility of Postmodern Ethics.

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