Power, ideology, and control
- 作者: Oliga, John C.
- 出版: New York : Plenum Press ©1996.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxi, 321 pages) :illustrations.
- 叢書名: Contemporary systems thinking
- 標題: SOCIAL SCIENCE General. , Happiness. , SOCIAL SCIENCE , Critical theory. , Social change. , Ideology. , Social control. , Electronic books. , Liberty. , General. , Power (Social sciences)
- ISBN: 0585351309 , 9780585351308
- ISBN: 0306451603 , 9780306451607
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-311) and indexes. pt. 1. Introduction : what are critical systems thinking and critical social theory all about? -- pt. 2. Metatheoretical concerns : what are social order and human freedom and happiness? -- pt. 3. Enlightenment and empowerment : toward self-clarity and self-will : must we remain helpless and ignorant of ourselves? -- pt. 4. Tranformation : toward individual freedom and happiness and collective autonomy and responsibility : can we not shape our own destinies? -- pt. 5. Concluding reflections : are the ideas of human freedom and happiness and collective autonomy and responsibility utopian?
- 摘要: What are critical systems thinking and critical social theory all about? What are social order, human freedom, and happiness? Can we shape our own destiny? Are the ideas of collective autonomy and responsibility utopian? In Power, Ideology, and Control, author John C. Oliga sheds light on these and other vital questions, offering innovative approaches to understanding society's increasing hypercomplexity. The book explores novel ideas for long-term societal transformation in chapters that discuss forms of social order and their sustaining world views; control and strategic ideologies; and critical social theory.
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One of the great challenges we face today is coming to grips with "forces of power/' in both theoretical and methodological terms, in a way that prepares us for action—action that is not totally subject to existing forces. The literature has some excellent theoretical accounts of power, but these say little about what we should do. Most often they are abstract and out of reach of all but a select few. In this book, however, we have a clear-cut account of power, ideology, and control that paves the way for practic- minded people to make a genuine attempt at tackling issues of power on both organizational and societal levels. John C. Oliga suggests a division between what he calls "objectivist," "subjectivist," and "relational" perspectives. With objectivism, he refers to theories that focus on power as capacities located in social structures. These tend to be either synergistic (e.g., Parsonian collective) or conflictual (e.g., Marxian conflictual view) theoretical orientations. With subjectivism he discusses theories that focus on power possessed by agents. With rela tional approaches he places theories that conceive power as a property of interaction among social forces.
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