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  • MAKING DEMOCRATIC THEORY DEMOCRATIC
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    MAKING DEMOCRATIC THEORY DEMOCRATIC
    STEPHEN TURNER / GEORGE MAZUR
    This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses for democratic theory. Topics include the political value of accountability, the antinomic character of political values, the ...

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  • MAX WEBER
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    MAX WEBER
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    This book is the first account of the way in which Weber appropriated and modified sources in the legal tradition, in which he was trained, to construct his sociology. It leads directly to a new understanding of Weber's intent and his relations to the tradition of social and political theory. the book takes the reader into the heart of Weber's conceptualizations of action and s...

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  • COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL
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    COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE SOCIAL
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years. Findings pour forth, and major initiatives for brain research continue. The social sciences have responded to this development slowly--for good reasons. The implications of particular controversial findings, such as the discovery of mirror neurons, have bee...

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  • THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY THESIS (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY THESIS (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    BRYAN S. TURNER / NICHOLAS ABERCROMBIE / STEPHEN HILL
    As a radical critique of theoretical sociological orthodoxy, The Dominant Ideology Thesis has generated controversy since first publication. It has also been widely accepted, however, as a major critical appraisal of one central theoretical concern within modern Marxism and an important contribution to the current debate about the functions of ideology in social life. ...

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  • DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    BRYAN S. TURNER / NICHOLAS ABERCROMBIE / STEPHEN HILL
    In this volume leading international scholars elaborate upon the central issues of the analysis of ideology: the nature of dominant ideologies. The ways in which ideologies are transmitted; their effects on dominant and subordinate social classes in different societies; the contrast between individualistic and collectivist belief systems; and the diversity of cultural forms tha...

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  • SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUALS OF CAPITALISM (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
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    SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUALS OF CAPITALISM (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    BRYAN S. TURNER / NICHOLAS ABERCROMBIE / STEPHEN HILL
    In this sequel to their acclaimed The Dominant Ideology Thesis, the authors develop their analysis of the social and cultural underpinnings of modern capitalism. They confront a central assumption of western culture: namely, that the individual is sovereign, and that capitalism above all other economic forms depends on individualism. These ideas have an unbroken history from Al...

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  • MAX WEBER AND THE DISPUTE OVER REASON AND VALUE
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    MAX WEBER AND THE DISPUTE OVER REASON AND VALUE
    STEPHEN P. TURNER / REGIS A. FACTOR
    The problem of the nature of values and the relation between values and rationality is one of the defining issues of twentieth-century thought and Max Weber was one of the defining figures in the debate. In this book, Turner and Factor consider the development of the dispute over Max Weber's contribution to this discourse, by showing how Weber's views have been used, revised an...

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  • UNDERSTANDING THE TACIT
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    UNDERSTANDING THE TACIT
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott’s account of tradition, Que...

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  • THE POLITICS OF EXPERTISE
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    THE POLITICS OF EXPERTISE
    STEPHEN P. TURNER
    This book collects case studies and theoretical papers on expertise, focusing on four major themes: legitimation, the aggregation of knowledge, the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power. It focuses on the institutional means by which the distribution of knowledge and the distribution of power are connected, and how the problems of aggregating knowledge and leg...

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  • A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHT
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    A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHT
    STEPHEN TURNER
    The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right that would create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and...

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  • EMILE DURKHEIM
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    EMILE DURKHEIM
    STEPHEN TURNER
    International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole: a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. This volume presents an overview of Durkheim's thought and is representative of the best of contemporary Durkheim scholarship. ...

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  • LIBERAL DEMOCRACY 3.0
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    LIBERAL DEMOCRACY 3.0
    STEPHEN TURNER
    `This is a very fine text, a powerful piece of work that deserves to be read widely. The analysis is truly panoramic. It ranges across central concerns in the fields of social theory, political theory, and science studies and engages with and/or draws upon the ideas of key classical and contemporary thinkers, including Tocqueville, Weber, Schumpeter, Polyani, Habermas, Foucault...

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