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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. What is Promoting Human Extinction? -- Chapter 3. Responses to Social Problems -- Chapter 4. How These Conditions Came to Be -- Chapter 5. Solution Requirements -- Chapter 6. Order - the Social Embryo -- Chapter 7. How Order Comes to Life – the Living System -- Chapter 8. Who Says Societies Are Living? -- Chapter 9. That Special Social Organism – the State -- Chapter 10. The Social Brain -- Chapter 11. Towards a Solution - the Framework -- Chapter 12. Towards a Solution - the Issues -- Chapter 13. Summary and Conclusions.

Intro -- Preface -- A Note on Style and Criteria -- A Note on Sources and Their Uses -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Audience -- 1.2 The Turmoil We Are in -- 1.3 The Yellow Brick Road -- 1.4 Uniqueness of This Book -- 1.5 Presentation Method -- 1.6 The United States as a Paradigm -- References (all accessed 15-29 November 2022) -- Chapter 2: What Is Promoting Human Extinction? -- 2.1 About This Chapter -- 2.1.1 Scope -- 2.1.2 Rationale for Method -- 2.1.3 Rationale for Categories -- 2.1.4 Sourcing -- 2.2 The Categories -- 2.2.1 Individual -- 2.2.1.1 Alienation and Identity -- 2.2.1.2 The Liberal Democratic Response: Identity Politics -- 2.2.1.3 Health -- Health Care Overall -- Mental Health -- Substance Abuse -- Nutritional Compromise -- 2.2.1.4 Education and Lack of Basic Knowledge -- 2.2.1.5 Work -- Losing Oneself at Work -- Types and Conditions of Work Environments -- 2.2.2 Society -- 2.2.2.1 Social Institutional Decay -- Income Stratification: The Consequences -- And the Proletarians, the Bulk of Society? -- General Flaws in the Governing Document, the Constitution -- A Constitutional Action Plan of the Dark Variety -- 2.2.2.2 Infrastructure -- 2.2.3 Environment: Natural -- 2.2.3.1 Climate Change/Global Warming -- 2.2.3.2 Resource Depletion -- 2.2.3.3 Environmental Degradation and Major Reasons for It -- 2.2.4 Environment: Artificial -- 2.2.4.1 Ethos, Ethics, and Morals -- 2.2.4.2 Philosophy and Ideology -- 2.2.4.3 Telecommunications Vulnerabilities -- 2.2.4.4 Artificial Intelligences -- 2.2.4.5 Knowledge Quality -- Documentation -- Pseudoscience and on the Borderlands of Science -- Information Quality, Peer Review, and ``Fake News´´ -- 2.2.4.6 Socioeconomics: Mergers and Acquisitions -- 2.2.4.7 Technological Complexity -- 2.2.4.8 Overpopulation -- 2.3 Other Problems -- 2.4 The Prison Planet.

This article examines the Chinese state's interactions and influences on the development of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) through a corporatist framework. It suggests that not only is the central state actively involved in the development of NGOs, but increasingly the successes of NGOs are determined by their interactions with the local state. We profile NGOs in Shanghai, of varying sizes, budgets and issue-areas, as a case study to understand the interplay between NGOs and the local state. The article further discusses reasons behind the growing shift from central to local state influences, and the potential future implications for state-NGO relations in China. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate institutions have learned from their bad performances, modified their structures and style of operation, and assumed responsibility for welfare state reform. Consensual bargaining is back on the agenda of both policy makers and of social science. This topical volume with its internationally respected panel of contributors will appeal to all those interested in the welfare state and labour relations. It includes chapters focusing on the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland as well as a section looking at the role of corporatist concertation in the European Union.

While I recognise that there are many problems involved in defining what I choose to call the salaried middle class (SMC), I will take its constituent elements to be those non-manual career hierarchies which we tend to associate with private and public bureaucracies. Galbraith's definition of a large corporation's technostructure comes nearest to what I mean.
'It extends from the most senior officials to where it meets … the blue and white collar workers whose function is to perform more or less mechanically to instruction or routine. It embraces all who bring specialised knowledge, talent or experience to group decisionmaking'.

My renewed interest in this class has arisen because recent Marxist studies of social policy and the welfare state have left me dissatisfied with the constant emphasis upon capital and labour. It may be, as Parkin has pointed out, that non-Marxist sociology made too much of the manual/non-manual distinction in the past and relegated private property 'to a theoretical limbo' .But the reverse is now equally true.
Although Marxists often refer to the new middle class and the 'new petit bourgeoisie' their analysis of capitalist society is based upon a dual model of class conflict.

Suggests that the state should be viewed as grappling with problems of managing society within the context of underdevelopment. Politics of corporatist organization thus become an attractive option for the state to express its authority and attempt to legitimize its existence. (Abstract amended)