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To Break Our Chains
Social Cohesiveness and Modern Democracy
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Jerome Braun
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2011
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About this book
Jerome Braun, known for his writings in interdisciplinary social science, in this book provides a concrete reference for such abstract issues of social theory as democracy from a cross-cultural perspective, alienation in modern society, and the relation between social cohesiveness and political democracy. This book also includes a great deal of writing on practical issues ranging from nihilism to figurehead politicians to working-class life. In the summary section it deals with the kinds of things critical theorists like to comment on, but rarely with so much practical insight.
Author / Editor information
Jerome Braun, M.A. (1976), Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana writes and lectures in interdisciplinary social science, with emphasis on culture and personality and democracy from a cross-cultural perspective. He also writes on pragmatic critical theory.
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eBook published on:
December 7, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9789004190306
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Main content:
398
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1
eBook ISBN:
9789004190306
Keywords for this book
community; postmodernity; Max Weber; pragmatic critical theory; political democracy; social democracy; modernization; mass society; social cohesion; alienation in modern society
Audience(s) for this book
This book will be of interest to students of political and cultural sociology, sociology of alienation, sociology of culture, political science, political anthropology, political psychology, cultural studies and social theory.
