Alain Touraine

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Action, Movement, and Intervention: Reflections on the Sociology of Alain Touraine, in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
by Alan Scott. 17 pgs.

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What is Democracy?
by Alain Touraine, David Macey. 211 pgs.

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"This is certainly one of the most important political essays to be published since Rawls's Theory of Justice. But in direct opposition to Rawls, Touraine proposes a properly democratic conception of political society rather than a liberal one." Jerome Binde for Le Nouvel Observateur

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What is Democracy?

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: The Three Dimensions of Democracy

1: A New Idea

2: Human Rights, Representation, and Citizenship

3: Limitations on Power

4: Representative Political Actors

5: Citizenship

Part 2: A History of the Modern Democratic Spirit

6: Republicans and Liberals

7: Opening Up a Public Space

Part 3: Democratic Culture

8: The Politics of the Subject

9: Recomposing the World

Part 4: Democracy and Development

10: Modernization or Development?

11: Transforming Old into New

12: Democratization in the East and the South?

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Book and Author

Index
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Equality and/or Difference: Real Problems, False Dilemmas, in Canadian Journal of Sociology
by Alain Touraine. 9 pgs.

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Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought (Chap. Twelve "Post-industrial Classes" by Alain Touraine)
by James D. Faubion. 228 pgs.

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Contents

Foreword

A Note on the Editing

Credits

Introduction

Notes

Part One: Cultured Bodies

Chapter One: Structures, Habitus, Practices

CHAPTER ONE: Structures, Habitus, Practices

Chapter Two: Gender and Identity in the New Guinea Highlands

CHAPTER TWO Gender and Identity in the New Guinea Highlands

Chapter Three: Discipline

CHAPTER THREE Discipline

Part Two: Matters and Ideas

Chapter Four: Politics Unbound

CHAPTER FOUR Politics Unbound

Chapter Five: Progress Exposed as Fate?

Blumenberg

Chapter Six: Modernity and the Planes of Historicity

CHAPTER SIX Modernity and the Planes of Historicity

Chapter Seven: The Totalitarian Disease

CHAPTER SEVEN The Totalitarian Disease

Chapter Eight: Individualism and the Ideology of Romantic Love

CHAPTER EIGHT Individualism and the Ideology of Romantic Love

Chapter Nine: The Contemporary Codification of Intimacy

CHAPTER NINE The Contemporary Codification of Intimacy

Part Three: Acts and Reasons

Chapter Ten: Communicative Versus Subject-Centered Reason

CHAPTER TEN Communicative Versus Subject- Centered Reason

Chapter Eleven: The Contemporary Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge

CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Contemporary Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge

Part Four: Economies and Societies

Chapter Twelve: Post-Industrial Classes

CHAPTER TWELVE Post-Industrial Classes

Chapter Thirteen: On Consumer Society

CHAPTER THIRTEEN On Consumer Society

About the Book and Editor

Index
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Research on Social Movements: The State of the Art in Western Europe and the USA ("Sociological Theory as a Theory of Social Movements? A Critique of Alain Touraine" begins on p. 355)
by Dieter Rucht. 464 pgs.

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List of Contributors

Preface

Part I: Basic Approaches

New Social Movements and Resource Mobilization: the European and the American Approach Revisited

Bibliography

Part II: The State of the Art in Selected Countries

Social Movement Research and Social Movement Practice: the U.S. Pattern

Annotated Bibliography

Social Movements and the Social Sciences in Britain

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The Growth of an Autonomous Research Field: Social Movement Studies in Italy

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The Study of Social Movements in West Germany: Between Activism and Social Science

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Switzerland: a Marginal Field of Research in an Underdeveloped Social Science Community

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The Study of Social Movements in Austria

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Research on Social Movements in Sweden

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Research on Social Movements in Denmark

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The Netherlands: Action and Protest in a Depillarized Society

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Part III: Debates and Perspectives

Resource Mobilization Theory: a Critique

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The Continuing Vitality of Resource Mobilization Theory: Response to Herbert Kitschelt's Critique

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Sociological Theory as a Theory of Social Movements? a Critique of Alain Touraine

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Commentary on Dieter Rucht's Critique

Comparing Social Movement Participation in Western Europe and the United States: Problems, Uses, and a Proposal for Synthesis

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The Analysis of Social Movements: the State of the Art and Some Perspectives for Further Research

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Socialism of a Different Kind: Reshaping the Left in France ("Autogestion as Autonomy: Touraine" begins on p. 58)
by Bernard E. Brown. 201 pgs.

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Preface

Abbreviations

1: "The Only New Idea in Europe"

2: Shattered Models

3: The Heritage of May 1968

4: Beyond Reformism: Socialist Autogestion

5: Beyond Stalinism: Communist Autogestion

6: Testing Grounds

7: Mortal Allies

8: The Union That Never Was

Notes

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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Higher Faculties: A Cross-National Study of University Culture ("A Semispectacular Scholar: Alain Touraine" begins on p. 117)
by Adam Podgorecki. 192 pgs.

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A veteran of universities in Eastern and Western Europe, the United States, and Canada offers a cross-national sociological analysis of the cultural and political aspects of university life.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Ideal Scholar

2: Scholarly Creativity R

3: A Typology of Scholars

4: Models of Scholars in Different Societies

5: Scholars on Scholars: Interviews

6 Silhouettes

7: Ideal and Real: A Synthesis of Findings

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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The Nostalgia for the Subject: French Intellectual Thought of the 1980s, in The Romanic Review
by Lawrence D. Kritzman. 13 pgs.

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Technology and Resistance: Digital Communications and New Coalitions around the World ("Touraine on Subjectivity" begins on p. 33)
by Ann De Vaney, Stephen Gance, Yan Ma. 182 pgs.

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Dedication

Acknowledgment

Table of Contents

Introduction

References

Chapter One Technology in Old Democratic Discourses and Current Resistance Narratives: What is Borrowed? What is Abandoned? What is New?

Notes

References

Chapter Two Breaking the Silence: Fax Transmissions and the Movement for Democracy in Malawi

Notes

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Chapter Three Resistance and Cybercommunities: the Internet and the Free Burma Movement

Notes

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Chapter Four: Old Technology in New Contexts: Print Media and Russian Education

Notes

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Chapter Five Women, Telephones, and Subtle Solidarity: a Counternarrative

Notes

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Chapter Six Chinese Online Presence: Tiananmen Square and Beyond

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Chapter Seven Computer Links to the West: Experiences from Turkey

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Contributors

Index
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Protest in Paris: Anatomy of a Revolt ("Revolt as Wave of the Future" begins on p. 45)
by Bernard E. Brown. 240 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

A B B R E V I A T I O N S

1: The Events Of May

Notes

2: The Meanings of May

Notes

3: Red Flags, Black Flags

Notes

4: Toward The Seizure Of Power

Notes

5: The Revolt Vanishes

Notes

6: Modernization And Revolt

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Handbook of Contemporary Developments in World Sociology ("Humanistic vs. Ahistorical Sociology in France" begins on p. 12)
by Raj P. Mohan, Don Martindale. 496 pgs.

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CONTRIBUTIONS IN SOCIOLOGY

Contents

Preface

Biographical Notes on the Contributors

Part I Sociology in Western and Northern Europe

1: Ideologies and Trends in Contemporary French Sociology1

2: Sociology in Contemporary Britain

3: Contemporary Sociology in Belgium

4: Contemporary Sociological Theory in the Netherlands

APPENDIX: ARTICLES AND PAPERS ON DUTCH SOCIOLOGY IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN

5: Contemporary Sociology in Switzerland

NOTES

NOTES

6: The Development of West German Sociology Since 1945

7: Contemporary Sociology in Austria

8: Sociology in Sweden 1965-1973: A Description Based on a Sociometric Method

9: Contemporary Sociology in Finland

Part II Sociology in the Western Hemisphere

10: Contemporary Sociology in the United States

SUMMARY

NOTES

11: Sociology in Canada: A Developmental Overview

NOTES

12: Sociology in Latin America1

Part III Sociology in Eastern Europe

13: Contemporary Sociology in Czechoslovakia

15: Contemporary Sociology in Bulgaria

16: Contemporary Sociology in Hungary

17: Contemporary Sociology in Romania

18: Yugoslav Sociology

19: Contemporary Sociology in the Soviet Union

Part IV Sociology in Southern Europe

INTRODUCTION

21: Contemporary Sociology in Italy

22: Sociology in Contemporary Spain

Part V Sociology in Africa

23: Contemporary Sociology in Egypt1

24: Contemporary Sociology in Nigeria

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Part VI Sociology in the East

25: Contemporary Sociology in Pakistan and Bangladesh

NOTES

26: Contemporary Sociology in India

27: Contemporary Sociology in Japan

28: Contemporary Sociology in Australia and New Zealand

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The Focus Group Method and Contemporary French Sociology, in Journal of Sociology
by Jacques Hamel. 14 pgs.

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For Sociology: Renewal and Critique in Sociology Today (1973) ("Five Basic Issues in the Coming Crisis" begins on p. 83)
by Alvin W. Gouldner. 442 pgs.

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For Sociology: Renewal and Critique in Sociology Today

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Part One: Critiques of Sociology

1: Anti-Minotaur: The Myth of a Value-Free Sociology

2: The Sociologist as Partisan: Sociology and the Welfare State

3: Remembrance and Renewal in Sociology

4: The Politics of the Mind

5: For Sociology

Part Two: Backgrounds to Sociology

6: Some Observations on Systematic Theory, 1945 -55

7: Reciprocity and Autonomy in Functional Theory

8: The Norm of Reciprocity: a Preliminary Statement

9: The Importance of Something for Nothing

10: Personal Reality, Social Theory and the Tragic Dimension in Science

11: Romanticism and Classicism: Deep Structures in Social Science

Part Three: Marxisms and Sociology

12: ÉMile Durkheim and the Critique of Socialism

13: Sociology and Marxism

14: The Red Guard

15: Comments on History and Class Consciousness

16: The Two Marxisms

Bibliographical Note
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Jack the Ripper, the Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Search for Spiritual Deliverance in White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, in Critical Survey
by Alex Murray. 15 pgs.

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