Power, Ideology, and Control

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Oliga, John C. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1996.
• Σειρά: Contemporary Systems Thinking,
• Θέματα: Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.

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, bu...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.