Freedom Power & Democ Plan V 4,9780415150828

Freedom Power & Democ Plan V 4

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ISBN13: 9780415150828
ISBN10: 0415150825
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-08-13
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Table of Contents

Foreword v
Adolph Lowe
A Note on the Work of Karl Mannheim vii
Ernest K. Bramstedt
Hans Gerth
Preface xvii
PART I. DIAGNOSIS OF THE SITUATION
Main Symptoms of the Crisis
3(19)
New Social Techniques Making for Minority Rule
6(2)
The New Techniques and the Power Complex
8(2)
From Communal Economy through Free Competition to Monopolies
10(1)
Displacement of Self-Regulating Small Groups
11(2)
Disintegration of Traditional Group Controls
13(1)
Failure of Large-Scale Co-ordination
14(2)
Disintegration of Co-operative Controls
16(1)
Disruptive Effects of Class Antagonism
17(1)
Disintegration of Personalities
18(1)
Disintegration of Consensus and of Religious Bonds
19(3)
Alternative Responses to the Situation
22(19)
Totalitarian Responses
23(2)
The Pessimistic View of Fascism
25(1)
The Utopian Hope of Marxism
26(3)
Toward Democratic Planning
29(5)
The Emerging New Pattern
34(7)
PART II. DEMOCRATIC PLANNING AND CHANGING INSTITUTIONS
On Power--A Chapter in Political Sociology
41(36)
Freedom and the Social Order
41(4)
Toward a Democratic Theory of Power
45(3)
The Three Basic Forms of Power
48(1)
Power in Personal Relationships
49(2)
Power Concentration in Functions
51(3)
Significant Lessons
54(2)
Power Concentration in Groups
56(3)
The Nature and Power of Communal Sentiment
59(6)
Functional and Communal Power at Variance
65(4)
Basic Power Patterns of Today
69(1)
Basic Power Patterns in International Relations
70(1)
Abuses of Power and Their Prevention
71(6)
The Ruling Class in Capitalist and Communist Society
77(31)
The Russian Experiment Appraised
77(2)
The Pattern of Capitalist Society
79(1)
The Pattern of Communist Society
80(2)
The Value of Graded Rewards
82(1)
Desirable and Undesirable Equality
83(3)
Overlapping of Status Distinctions
86(1)
Power Differentiation
87(4)
Lessons of the Russian Experiment
91(2)
Methods of Selecting Leaders
93(2)
Scientific Selection and Its Limitations
95(2)
Co-ordinated Methods of Selection
97(2)
Broadening the Basis of Selection (The British Situation)
99(3)
Social Value of Functions Performed by the Ruling Class
102(2)
Humanities or Social Studies?
104(1)
The Danger of Overassimilation
105(1)
Functions of a Reconstructed Ruling Class
106(2)
The Reformation of Politics
108(37)
Politics and Institutional Controls
108(4)
Maxims on the Policy of Preventive Planning
112(4)
Control of the Social Structure
116(3)
Control of the Economy
119(8)
Control of the Armed Forces
127(4)
The Civil Service
131(3)
Democratic Control of Press and Radio
134(11)
Democratic Control of Government in a Planned Society
145(28)
Historical Limitations of the Modern Democratic Idea
145(3)
Two Obsolete Safeguards of Democracy
148(1)
Nine Virtues of Representative Government
149(6)
The Democratic Process
155(18)
PART III. NEW MAN--NEW VALUES
From Custom to Social Science
173(26)
The Idea of Social Education
173(3)
The New Science of Human Behavior
176(5)
Personal Relationships, Primary Groups, and Their Educational Significance
181(3)
Organized Groups and Their Educational Impact
184(3)
Some Social Institutions and Their Educational Impact
187(4)
Some Social Mechanisms and Their Educational Impact: Competition and Co-operation
191(8)
The Pattern of Democratic Behavior
199(29)
The Concept of Integrative Behavior
199(8)
Subjective Aspects of Responsibility
207(8)
Objective Aspects of Responsibility
215(6)
Collapse of Older Institutions
221(7)
The Pattern of Democratic Personality
228(18)
Historical Patterns of Character Development
228(2)
The Ideal of Democratic Personality and Behavior
230(5)
Democratic Personality Reflected in Democratic Philosophy
235(8)
The Threat of Reversion to Barbarism
243(1)
The Dual Aspect of Democratic Personalism
244(2)
Education as Groundwork
246(20)
A Wider Concept of the School and Its Tasks
246(2)
Education for Change
248(2)
The Democratic Interpretation of Life
250(1)
Continuity in the Educational Scheme
251(2)
The New Tasks of Adult Education
253(3)
The Tasks of a People's University
256(2)
The Need for Universal Reform
258(1)
Some Redistributive Aspects of Democratic Education
259(7)
Work and Leisure
266(9)
Work Incentives and Gratifications
266(3)
The Pursuit of Leisure
269(3)
The Redistributive Aspects of Leisure
272(3)
The Discipline of Freedom
275(10)
Freedom and Discipline in Group Organization
275(1)
Contemporary Concepts of Freedom
276(3)
Freedom and Discipline under Democratic Planning
279(2)
Freedom of Choice in an Age of Planning
281(4)
Thought, Philosophy, Religion, and the Integration of the Social Order
285(30)
Religious Integration in a Dynamic Society
285(5)
The Predicament of Thought in Modern Society
290(11)
The Predicament of Human Existence in Modern Society
301(14)
Notes 315(60)
Index 375

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