Social Cohesion and Legal Coercion: A Critique of Weber, Durkheim, and MarxRodopi, 1997 - 402 pages The book is a critical analysis of the work of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx. It focuses on their separate analyses of the role of law in society, pointing out their faults and errors, and the resultant impact on modern social science. The author takes issue with Weber's work on rationality, with Durkheim's work on repressive and restitutive law, and with Marx's work on social justice and law as part of the super-structure. In each section of the book he shows the implications that flow from a re-assessment and re-interpretation of their work for an understanding of society. The book is multi-disciplinary, making ample reference to law, sociology, anthropology, history, religion, ecology, criminology, philosophy and economics. Its various chapters discuss a wide range of themes, including rationality, tradition, science, political authority, conflict resolution, community, justice and altruism. |
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Page ix
... their sociological presentations . I shall , in each case , focus on their key concepts in the case of Weber , his stance on the unique rationality of the modern , western world , a rationality expressed also in PREFACE.
... their sociological presentations . I shall , in each case , focus on their key concepts in the case of Weber , his stance on the unique rationality of the modern , western world , a rationality expressed also in PREFACE.
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... concepts , sustained by a deep - seated belief in progress and the inherent advantages of modern society . Social reality and historical evidence indicated that the total picture was far more complex than the almost axiomatic , but ...
... concepts , sustained by a deep - seated belief in progress and the inherent advantages of modern society . Social reality and historical evidence indicated that the total picture was far more complex than the almost axiomatic , but ...
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... concepts because they deal with the nature of social cohesion and legal coercion . In fact , the key question to answer is how much legal coercion is reasonably ( rationally ) required to achieve social cohesion , in what areas , of ...
... concepts because they deal with the nature of social cohesion and legal coercion . In fact , the key question to answer is how much legal coercion is reasonably ( rationally ) required to achieve social cohesion , in what areas , of ...
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... concept of an ideal - type , ' that is of a social situation in its purest hypothetical form , even if there is no actual example of what is described . While an excellent methodological tool for theoretical analysis , carefully ...
... concept of an ideal - type , ' that is of a social situation in its purest hypothetical form , even if there is no actual example of what is described . While an excellent methodological tool for theoretical analysis , carefully ...
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... concepts such as bureaucracy , charisma , the protestant ethic , disenchantment , all have a point of reference , in a ... concept of rationality , and in both there is a similar categorization of modern Western society in terms of what ...
... concepts such as bureaucracy , charisma , the protestant ethic , disenchantment , all have a point of reference , in a ... concept of rationality , and in both there is a similar categorization of modern Western society in terms of what ...
Contents
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Chapter Five | 83 |
Chapter | 109 |
Chapter Seven | 129 |
Chapter Eight | 153 |
ON RADICALISM AND IDEOLOGY | 227 |
ON LIBERTY AND EQUALITY | 251 |
ON WEALTH AND ALTRUISM | 279 |
Chapter Fourteen | 309 |
AFTERWORD by Virginia Black | 319 |
NOTES | 335 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 377 |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 393 |
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