Ferdinand Tonnies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (first published in 1887) is a classic of social and political theory, which explores the clash between small-scale neighbourhood-based 'communities' and large-scale competitive market 'societies'. Tonnies considers all aspects of life - political, economic, legal and family; art, religion and culture; the construction of 'selfho...(展开全部)

In the past two decades, '"civil society" has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest in the topic exploded with the decline of statism in the 1980s and 1990s, and ma...(展开全部)

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is...(展开全部)

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The Internet in China examines the cultural and political ramifications of the Internet for Chinese society. The rapid growth of the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by the Chinese government, but the government has also rushed to seize control of the virtual environment. Individuals have responded with impassioned campaigns against official control of information. T...(展开全部)

亚当·弗格森(Adam Ferguson , 1723 - 1816) 是18 世纪苏格兰启蒙运动的主要思想家之一。18 世纪, 在法国启蒙运动发生的同时, 英伦北部的苏格兰有着另一场启蒙运动, 他们倡导的原则与法国思想有着很大的区别, 具体表现在: 他们几乎一致反对自然状态说和社会契约论, 对理性普遍采取低调态度或者有着不同的解释, 强调情感的力量, 并从英国传统的经验主义出发, 对社会变迁的原因和规律、对商业文明所面临的新问题进行了探索和解释。其中著名的思想家有大卫·休谟、亚当·斯密等等, 在他们当中, 亚当·弗格森对新兴的商业文明进行了颇有先见的批判, 使他与休谟和斯密对近代商业文明的乐观主义相区别开来, 也意味着弗格森的社会思想与苏格兰启蒙运动学术主流相左。

Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory, it offers a novel approach to understanding stability and instability in human society. Robert Layton provides a radical critiq...(展开全部)

Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory, it offers a novel approach to understanding stability and instability in human society. Robert Layton provides a radical critiq...(展开全部)

To preserve social order the state must administer civil society, with a threefold purpose - the fashioning of the market, the constitution of legal subjectivity and the subsumption of struggle. In Administering Civil Society Mark Neocleous offers a rethinking of the state-civil society distinction through the idea of political administration. This is achieved through an origin...(展开全部)