Emerald Group Publishing is pleased to announce the
publication of Current Perspectives in Social Theory, volume 27, ‘Theorizing the Dynamics of Social
Processes’. For full information please see below:
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, volume 27, ‘Theorizing the Dynamics of Social
Processes’. Edited by
Harry F. Dahms and
ISBN: 9780857242235
ISSN: 0278-1204
Pub. Date: 18 August 2010
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Synopsis:
The chapters in this volume represent steps in the direction
of demonstrating the importance of efforts to theorize the dynamics of specific
social, cultural, political, and/or economic processes to the social sciences
in general. They aim to clarify how those efforts are central to the core
mission of each of the social sciences, and how social theory is both
especially well positioned to tackle this challenge and to accept
responsibility for illuminating related possibilities. Papers address the
nature and importance of “process” in studying modern (industrialized,
post-industrial, capitalist, postmodern, globalizing, etc.) societies –
at macro, meso, or micro-scale. The volume’s overall purpose is to
assemble a set of essays that invent,
develop, and/or demonstrate strategies for theorizing one or several dynamic processes,
so as to identify, illustrate by example, and analyze specific problems as well
as connect theorizations of process across different disciplines of inquiry.
Table of Contents
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Introduction |
Harry F. Dahms and |
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PART I: THE DYNAMICS OF PROCESS BETWEEN SOCIAL
SCIENCE AND SOCIAL THEORY |
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On Theorizing the Dynamics of Process: A
Propaedeutic Introduction |
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Affinities between the Project of Dynamic Theory and
the Tradition of Critical Theory: A Sketch |
Harry F. Dahms |
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PART II: THEORIZING PROCESS: CLASS, SOCIAL
INEQUALITY, AND A NEW |
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History and the ‘Processing’ of Class in
Social Theory |
Joseph Maslen |
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Domination, Contention, and the Negotiation of
Inequality: A Theoretical Proposal |
Viviane Brachet-Márquez |
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The Labor-Value Relation and Its Transformations:
Revisiting Marx’s Value Theory |
Paul Paolucci |
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PART III: THEORIZING “GLOBALIZATION” |
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Globalization In and Out; or ‘How Can There be
a Constructivist Theory of Globalization?’ |
Jean-Sébastien Guy |
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Conceptualizing Globalization in Terms of Flows |
P.J. Rey and George Ritzer |
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PART IV: THEORIZING TWO SPECIFIC SOCIAL PROCESSES: ANTI-SEMITISM
AND ARCHITECTURE |
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Why Nazified Germans Killed Jewish People: Insights
from Agent-Based Modeling of Genocidal Actions |
Robert B. Smith |
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Economy and Field in the Rise of Postmodern
Architecture |
David Gartman |
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