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The Anthem companion to Philip Selznick / edited by Paul van Seters.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthem companions to sociology.
- Anthem companions to sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Selznick, Philip, 1919-2010.
- Selznick, Philip.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Sociology--United States--History--20th century.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The Anthem Companion to Philip Selznick is a collection of essays by renowned authors on the preeminent sociologist.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half-title
- Series page
- Praise page
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1-10
- Chapter 1 The Intellectual Enterprise We Call Sociology
- Introduction
- Growing Up in Newark
- Discovering a New World at City College of New York
- Academics
- Politics
- The New York Intellectuals
- A bookworm in politics
- Moving from Politics to Sociology at Columbia University
- A political journey
- Becoming a sociologist, at long last
- An Ecumenical View of the Discipline of Sociology
- On Public Philosophy and Public Sociology
- Public philosophy
- Public sociology
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 2 Philosophy for the Twice- Born: Selznick and Dewey in Dialogue
- The Central Question of the Age
- Deepening Dewey
- Searching for Natural Foundations
- Political Distancing from Dewey
- Democracy and faith in law
- Democracy and expertise
- Dancing with Dewey: Conventional and Critical Morality
- Dewey in China: The Communitarian Challenge
- Chapter 3 Power Relations across Organizations and Fields: Building on Selznick's Concepts of Co- Optation and Institutionalization
- Tracing Selznick's Early Approach to Organizations
- Exploring TVA, Leadership, and the Concepts of Co-Optation and Institutionalization
- Conceptualizing Institutionalized Co-Optation
- Illustrating Institutionalized Co-Optation
- Chapter 4 Organizations, Institutions, and Law: The Sociological Significance of Philip Selznick's Law, Society, and Industrial Justice
- Central Themes in Law, Society, and Industrial Justice
- Law, Society, and Industrial Justice and Sociological Conventions
- The New and Old Institutionalisms in Organizational Analysis.
- The Legacy of Selznick and the New Institutional Analysis of Law and Organizations
- Reintegrating Selznick into the New Institutionalism
- Chapter 5 Post- Industrial Justice? Normativity and Empiricism in a Changing World of Work
- Law, Society, and Industrial Justice
- Bringing Capitalism Back In
- Industrial Disorganization and the Law
- Postindustrial Justice
- Chapter 6 The Promise of the Rule of Law Ideal
- Selznick's Socio-Legal Normative Theory of the Rule of Law
- Two Moralities: Comparing Selznick to Fuller
- The Dual Nature of the Rule of Law: Tensions between Negative Restrictions and Positive Expansion
- Rule of Law Problems: Applying Selznick's Rule of Law Theory
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter 7 Philip Selznick on Law and Society: Democratic Ideals, Communitarianism, and Natural Law
- Introduction: Democratic Ideals and Institutional Failure
- TVA, the Grass Roots, and Unintended Consequences
- Sociology of Law
- Communitarian Debates
- Conclusion: Objectivity and Commitment
- Note
- Chapter 8 Selznick's Concepts of Culture and Community
- An Ecumenical Sociology
- Culture
- Attenuation of culture
- A normative theory
- Cultural universals
- Cultural plurality
- Community
- Community as entity and quality
- Civility and piety
- Community and sociology
- Chapter 9 A Symposium on The Moral Commonwealth
- Philip Selznick's Classic Humanism
- Sociology and Moral Theory
- The Limits of Communitarianism
- Philip Selznick Responds
- Chapter 10 An Ecumenical Sensibility
- Sensibility
- Sociology
- Ecumenism
- The Discipline: Core and Range
- Values and Ideals in the World.
- Sociological Contributions to the Humanities
- A High Tolerance for Ambiguity
- End Matter
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785278273
- 1785278274
- 9781785278266
- 1785278266
- OCLC:
- 1491311996
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