Suchergebnisse

1. The logic of human rights -- 2. The human rights framework -- 3. In defense of society -- 4. Recognition : culture and ethics -- 5. Economic myths, realities, and possibilities -- 6. The equality project -- 7. Humanitarian crimes and human rights violations -- 8. Solidarities -- 9. Democracy -- 10. Sustainable development, global climate change, and human rights.

The Blackwell Companion to Sociologyis a milestone collection of new essays by renowned sociologists, covering both the traditions and strengths of the field as well as newer developments and directions. Authors from the US, the UK, Europe and elsewhere have contributed to this all-in-one reference work, highlighting the relevance of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, while at the same time representing the scope and quality of sociology in its current form.

In pursuit of freedom -- Private goods, collective goods -- The world's table : freedoms and solidarities -- Ejidosian societies -- Universalisms and particularisms -- The undoing of capital -- Fair economies -- "Of the people, by the people, for the people" -- A better world is necessary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors

Social theory provides two opposing views about the role played by mass communications in modernizing America. Mass society theorists, including José Ortega y Gasset (1932), George Seldes (1938), and Joseph Bensman and Bernard Rosenberg (1963), and also critical theorists, especially Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (1991 [1944]) and Jürgen Habermas (1989), maintained that the mass press weakens authentic forms of community, whereas, in contrast, Chicago School sociologists, especially Robert Park(1971 [1922]), contended that the newspaper, notably the ethnic press, buffers the individual against the brutalizing effects of the city's impersonality and disorganization.Instead of encouraging reflective and rational thought, the commercial press, according to Habermas (1989: 195), is both emblem and harbinger of the decay of civil society as it reinforces the totalizing processes of modernity and offers the public crass and stultifying banalities.