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  title info:
    title: Power, Ideology, and Control
  name:
    name part: Oliga, John C.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 322 p. online resource.
  abstract: One of the great challenges we face today is coming to grips with "forces of power/' in both theoretical and methodological terms, in a way that prepares us for action—action that is not totally subject to existing forces. The literature has some excellent theoretical accounts of power, but these say little about what we should do. Most often they are abstract and out of reach of all but a select few. In this book, however, we have a clear-cut account of power, ideology, and control that paves the way for practic- minded people to make a genuine attempt at tackling issues of power on both organizational and societal levels. John C. Oliga suggests a division between what he calls "objectivist," "subjectivist," and "relational" perspectives. With objectivism, he refers to theories that focus on power as capacities located in social structures. These tend to be either synergistic (e.g., Parsonian collective) or conflictual (e.g., Marxian conflictual view) theoretical orientations. With subjectivism he discusses theories that focus on power possessed by agents. With rela­ tional approaches he places theories that conceive power as a property of interaction among social forces.
  table of contents: Critical Systems Thinking and Critical Social Theory -- Metatheoretical Concerns -- Forms of Social Order and Their Sustaining Worldviews -- Individualism and Social Order -- Unitarism and Social Order -- Pluralism and Social Order -- Enlightenment and Empowerment -- Power and Interests -- Ideology -- Transformation: Toward Individual Freedom and Happiness and Collective Autonomy and Responsibility -- Control and Social Order -- Control and Human Interests -- Control, Constancy, and Change -- Control and Strategic Ideologies -- Critical Social Theory -- Concluding Reflections -- Enlightenment, Empowerment, and Transformation of Societal Systems -- Conclusion.
  note: by John C. Oliga.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  classification: HF4999.2-6182
  classification: HD28-70
  classification: 650
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
  identifier: 9780585351308
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b102385
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204173549.0
    record identifier: 978-0-585-35130-8