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This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is 'international by nature', this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences

As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obamas campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues. Chapters in this volume discuss the meaning of revolution, the origins of neoliberalism in India, identity formation in a Chicago social movement, the Palestinian National Question, and the Black middle-class in the US. Additionally, in the Scholarly Controversy section, Fred Block questions whether the concept of "capitalism" should be problematized entirely.

Covers of the use of power in the social sciences and the complex ways in which power has been used. Provides a reference for debates central to the issues of power in different contexts and for related topics, showing how these disparate topics are related to power.

This book presents the latest research on status generalization in a variety of settings. Throughout, the book illustrates how improved status process interventions can reduce unwanted inequalities between advantaged and disadvantaged students, genders, organizational positions, races, and other dynamics that may be impacted by social status and expectation.

This book explores the idea of social class in the liberal tradition. It collects classical and contemporary texts illustrating and examining the liberal origins of class analysis--often associated with Marxism but actually rooted in the work of liberal theorists. Liberal class analysis emphasizes the constitutive connection between state power and class position

Chapter 20: The Body Language Game -- Sign ReadingChapter 21: The Switching Game -- Reconstruction; Chapter 22: The Status Master Game -- Sign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction; Chapter 23: The Scene Study Game -- Deconstruction; Chapter 24: The Character Study Game -- Reconstruction; References; Index; About the Author; A Note about the Publisher; A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading.

This book draws attention to certain significant changes in the way in which power has been defined and it also examines some of the critical responses which those changes have evoked. The objective is not to try and evolve a universally acceptable and comprehensive definition of power, and of realted terms like authority and influence. The argument of the book is that, that would be an impossible project since social and political theories themselves constitute an intervention into political discourse of a society and they may implicitly or explicitly embody a political perspective

The will to power and the politics of ressentiment -- Power/knowledge -- The critique of ideology -- The practice of criticism -- Hermeneutical ethical theory

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. THE NATURE OF POWER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Elements -- 3. Additional Considerations -- 4. The Variety of Operating Units -- 5. Power Domains and Levels -- PART TWO. ENERGETIC AND MENTALISTIC STRUCTURES -- 6. A Note on Structure, Mind and Matter, and Culture -- 7. The Energetic -- 8. The Mentalistic -- PART THREE. A MODEL OF THE EVOLUTION OF POWER -- 9. The Framework -- 10. Levels of Integration -- 11. Replicative Processes -- 12. Social Power and the Future -- Works Cited -- Index