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An age of limits = social theory for the 21st Century /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An age of limits/ Ralph Schroeder.
Reminder of title:	social theory for the 21st Century /
Author:	Schroeder, Ralph.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource (268 pages)
Subject:	Political ethics. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137314628
ISBN:	9781137314628 (electronic bk.)

An age of limits = social theory for the 21st Century /
Schroeder, Ralph.

An age of limitssocial theory for the 21st Century /[electronic resource] :Ralph Schroeder. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource (268 pages)

Cover; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 From the Birth of the Modern World to the Age of Limits; Ages and labels; Disciplinary approaches to politics, economics and culture; The emergence of free markets, rapid-discovery science, and democratic states; Free markets; Three cultures, one structural; Politics: democratic states and citizens; Differentiation and macro-social orders; Stratification: elites and people; Global powers?; From the Age of Extremes to the Age of Limits; 2 Convergence and Divergence; Sweden versus America; Americanization or Globalization?

An Age of Limits outlines a new social theoryfor understanding contemporary society. Providing an analysis of why political, economic and cultural powers face constraints across the global North and beyond, this bold book argues that forces which address current challenges must confront thelimits of the interplay between dominant institutions.

ISBN: 9781137314628 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

658216
Political ethics.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: H61

Dewey Class. No.: 320.1

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505 8 $a Individualism in Sweden and America3 Paths towards Pluralist Democracy: Liberal versus Radical Interpretations; Liberal and radical endpoints; The state and economic development; The state's fiscal growth and economic transfers; A radical account of the varieties of capitalism; Three types; Liberalism and the varieties of capitalism; Comparing the radical and liberal accounts; 4 Free and Unfree Markets; The emergence of disembedding; Markets and their mechanism; Financial markets; The economic order: embeddedness versus disembeddedness; Beyond disciplinary turf wars.
505 8 $a 5 The Paradoxes of Science, Technology and Social ChangeThe production of scientific knowledge and technological innovation; Technology in everyday life: the example of information and communication technologies; Globalization, science and technology, and social theory; 6 The Limits to Transforming the Environment; Disciplinary fragmentation and lack of realism; Accelerated transformations and an uncontrolled experiment; Technology, social change, and the environment; Energy infrastructures and developmental paths; Counteracting limits; 7 Three Cultures; Religion; Consumption.
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505 8 $a 9 Social Theory in the Face of the FutureThe limits of markets; The limits of culture, and of science and technology; The limits of the state and politics; From comparative-historical sociology to political philosophy; Notes; References; Index.
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