| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 233 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed 26 Jan., 2010). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Volume 17 of "Political Power and Social Theory" showcases scholarship by historical, political, and economic sociologists grouped around three broad subjects with both contemporary and historical relevance. The first is the relationship between race, class, and urban politics, and specifically, how racial and class identities interact with each other to produce social and political power dynamics in 20th century American cities. The second subject, the interaction of citizens, states, and social movements in both colonial and transnational context, turns away from the sub-national level of the city and examines social and political dynamics at the level of nations and even empires, although racial identities, social movements, and citizenship concerns remain relevant in several of these papers as well. Both U.S. and European cases are examined. The final topic of inquiry is the social origins of corporate irresponsibility, a problem that is explored through the lens of organizational theory, state-society relations, and the history of labor-corporate relations. Overall, the volume aims to open new historical, methodological, and theoretical lines of inquiry for sociologists, organization theorists, political scientists, historians, and others who seek to understand some of the most pressing inequalities and injustices of our times. |
| Contents |
Cover -- front cover -- table of contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- Editorial Statement -- List of Reviewers -- Editor's Introduction -- Part I: Historical Studies of Race, Class, and Urban Politics -- Class, Race, and Urban Politics: The 1920s Ku Klux Klan Movement in the United States -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s: The Traditional Interpretation -- The New Historiography of the Second Klan -- Social Movement Theory: Resources, Opportunities, and Identity -- Group Formation and Political Power: An Analytic Framework -- A Comparative Analysis of Klan Mobilization -- The Consequences of Klan Insurgency -- Chapter 1 Conclusion: The Local Politics of Class and Race -- Chapter 1 Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Notes -- Chapter 1 References -- A Tale of two Bourgeoisies: Race, Class, and Citizenship in San Francisco and Cincinnati, 1870-1911 -- Chapter 2 Introduction -- Anti-Unionism in San Francisco and Cincinnati: Practices and Principles -- Accounting for the Differences -- Chapter 2 Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Acknowledgments -- Chapter 2 Notes -- Chapter 2 References -- Part II: Citizens, States, and Social Movements in Colonial and Transnational Context -- Her Majesty's Sable Subjects: Subaltern Masculinities in Post-Emancipation Jamaica -- Chapter 3 Introduction -- Family and Gender in Liberal/Colonial Ideology -- Becoming Christian Subjects -- Heathens and Savages -- Hegemonic Gender, Racial, and Moral Orders -- Chapter 3 Conclusion: Citizenship from Below -- Chapter 3 Notes -- Chapter 3 References -- Europe's Atlantic Empires: Early Modern State Formation Reconsidered -- Chapter 4 Introduction: State Formation from an Atlantic Perspective -- Patronage and Rebellion in Europe -- The Beginnings of Empire and the Formation of Centralist Institutions -- Distance and Transcontinental Rule -- Foundations and Trajectories of Atlantic Colonialism -- The Conflicts of Empire -- How Colonial and Domestic Trajectories Diverged -- Chapter 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 References -- Thinking Locally, Acting Globally? What the Seattle WTO Protests tell us about the Global Justice Movement -- Chapter 5 Introduction -- Social Movements and Globalization -- The Principal Actors in the Organization and Mobilization of the Seattle Campaign -- The Structure of the Seattle WTO Protest Campaign: Evaluating Event Data -- Chapter 5 Discussion -- Chapter 5 Acknowledgments -- Chapter 5 Notes -- Chapter 5 References -- Part III: Scholarly Controversy: A Debate on the Social Origins of Corporate Irresponsibility -- Corporate Malfeasance and the Myth of Shareholder Value -- The Myth of Shareholder Value -- From Growth-By-Acquisition to Beat-The-Analysts -- Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Myth of Reform -- Chapter 6 Notes -- Chapter 6 References -- On the Importance of Analyzing Economic Scandals and Contemporary Economic Institutions: A Comment on Dobbin and Zorn -- Economic Scandals -- CEO Pay -- The Social Construction of Interest -- Chapter 7 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Power (Social sciences)
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Political sociology.
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Political sociology. |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Diane E., 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Political power and social theory. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2005 0762311908 (OCoLC)58828167 |
| ISBN |
9780080459622 (electronic book) |
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0080459625 (electronic book) |
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9781849503358 (electronic book) |
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1849503354 (electronic book) |
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0762311908 (hardback) |
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9780762311903 (hardback) |
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