A Treatise On Social Theory: Volume 3 - Brossura

Walter Garrison Runciman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521588014 ISBN 13: 9780521588010

Casa editrice: New Publisher, 1997

Riassunto

In this concluding volume of his trilogy on social theory, W. G. Runciman applies to the case of twentieth-century English society the methodology (distinguishing reportage, explanation, description, and evaluation) and theory of the preceding two volumes. Volume III shows how England's capitalist mode of production, liberal mode of persuasion, and democratic mode of coercion evolved in the aftermath of the First World War from what they had been since the 1880s, but then did not, in turn, evolve significantly following the Second World War. The explanation rests on an analysis of the selective pressures favouring some economic, ideological, and political practices over others in an increasingly complex environment, neither predictable nor controllable by policy-makers. This is supported by a graphic account of the changes themselves and how they were experienced by different segments of English society.

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Recensione:

'No serious scholar of twentieth-century Britain can be without it.' The Financial Times

Descrizione del libro:

The concluding volume to W. G. Runciman's magisterial treatise applies his methodological distinction between reportage, explanation, description, and evaluation expounded in Volume I and the theory of social selection expounded in volume II to the particular case of twentieth-century English society.

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• Editore: New Publisher
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521588014
• ISBN 13: 9780521588010
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 348