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Secret and power constitute two fundamental instances of the social world. Secret takes care of the concealment of things and of social processes. Secret is also a power device. Power is the social capacity to do, create, not doing and stop from doing. Secret and power get mutual feedback. Power uses the secret to protect his potential, be it what may, to increment its operative strength. Secret uses the power to achieve its aims and proposals. Social sciences seem to ignore the huge explanatory capacity of these two interrelated concepts, and even more, their powerful intervention in societies.

Secret and power constitute two fundamental instances of the social world. Secret takes care of the concealment of things and of social processes. Secret is also a power device. Power is the social capacity to do, create, not doing and stop from doing. Secret and power get mutual feedback. Power uses the secret to protect his potential, be it what may, to increment its operative strength. Secret uses the power to achieve its aims and proposals. Social sciences seem to ignore the huge explanatory capacity of these two interrelated concepts, and even more, their powerful intervention in societies.

Secret and power constitute two fundamental instances of the social world. Secret takes care of the concealment of things and of social processes. Secret is also a power device. Power is the social capacity to do, create, not doing and stop from doing. Secret and power get mutual feedback. Power uses the secret to protect his potential, be it what may, to increment its operative strength. Secret uses the power to achieve its aims and proposals. Social sciences seem to ignore the huge explanatory capacity of these two interrelated concepts, and even more, their powerful intervention in societies.

Secret and power constitute two fundamental instances of the social world. Secret takes care of the concealment of things and of social processes. Secret is also a power device. Power is the social capacity to do, create, not doing and stop from doing. Secret and power get mutual feedback. Power uses the secret to protect his potential, be it what may, to increment its operative strength. Secret uses the power to achieve its aims and proposals. Social sciences seem to ignore the huge explanatory capacity of these two interrelated concepts, and even more, their powerful intervention in societies.

This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies. The basic premise, developed throughout the volume, is that nanotechnologies have an undertheorized and often invisible social life that begins with their constructed origins and propels them around the globe, across multiple localities, institutions and collaborations, through diverse industries, research labs, and government agencies and

1. Economy of life : charismatic dynamics and the spirit of gift / Adrian Pabst -- 2. The role of charisma, ethics and Machiavellianism in economic and civil life / Tamas Kovacs -- 3. The charismatic principle in an American and democratic context / David J. O'Brien -- 4. Dr. Martin Luther King and the American civil rights movement : charismatic and institutional perspectives / Ian Weinstein -- 5. Charism and institution : an organizational theory case study of the economy of communion / Jeanne Buckeye and John Gallagher -- 6. Benedictine tradition and good governance / Emil Inauen. [et al.] -- 7. Opus Dei : prayer or labor? : the spirituality of work in Saints Benedict and Escriva / James B. Murphy -- 8. Values-based enterprises : the good practices of Italian SMEs, passionately committed to people, environment and community / Mara Del Baldo -- 9. The role of the charismatic economist E.F. Schumacher in economic and civil life : CSR and beyond / Hendrik Opdebeeck.

KEY FEATURES: The text is driven by an interest in unequal relations of power and how gender informs and is reinforced in institutions and other large-scale historical processes. Global perspectives are woven throughout book for today's increasingly globalized students. The book focuses on understanding not just gender but the social world through a gendered lens. The practical application of theoretical themes shows specific arenas of life not necessarily considered "gendered" on the surface.

Intro -- Sarukkai's Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. The Nature of Democracy -- 2. The Concept of Democracy -- The Indian Model of Democracy -- The Chinese Model of Democracy -- The Myth of 'the People' -- 3. Domains of Democracy -- A Democratic Self -- Labour -- Science, Technology and Democracy -- Religion and Democracy -- 4. The Ethical Processes of Democracy -- The Ethical Act of Voting -- Trusteeship -- Creating an Experience of the 'Public' -- 5. Democracy and Truth -- Truth, Politics and Democracy -- 6. Democracy and Freedom -- Freedom of Speech -- Freedom to Dissent -- The Problem with Freedom -- References.