Revolution and Counter-revolutionOpen University Press, 1990 - 90 síður Revolution remains a key concept in the social sciences. After the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, a debate still rages over its causes and meaning. At the same time as, in Eastern Europe, much of what the Russian Revolution was believed to have stood for is being rejected, the Chinese leadership has reaffirmed its right to maintain revolutionary political orthodoxy by force. In this book Professor Calvert aims to show how revolution must by its nature be disputed. When people observe revolutions, their interpretations of what they are seeing are conditioned by changing intellectual fashion and by wishful thinking and so too are the theories derived from them. This book re-examines the place of revolution in modern social theory and at the same time reasserts the need for systematic study in the social sciences. |
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... nature and meaning of class remains a staple of sociology , but modern views of class have now moved far away from the simple positivist model of Marx and his immediate followers . Class , too , is an essentially - contested concept ...
... nature and meaning of class remains a staple of sociology , but modern views of class have now moved far away from the simple positivist model of Marx and his immediate followers . Class , too , is an essentially - contested concept ...
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... nature of society and the nature of the state . Institutional factors Revolution is not just a social process , but a political act ( or series of acts ) concerned with the seizure , consolidation and future use of power . Central to ...
... nature of society and the nature of the state . Institutional factors Revolution is not just a social process , but a political act ( or series of acts ) concerned with the seizure , consolidation and future use of power . Central to ...
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... nature of that connection ? On this at any rate Arendt is both ready and forthright : When we were told that by ... natural abundance under ' mild government , ' and neither political freedom nor the unchained , unbridled ' private ...
... nature of that connection ? On this at any rate Arendt is both ready and forthright : When we were told that by ... natural abundance under ' mild government , ' and neither political freedom nor the unchained , unbridled ' private ...
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