Research Catalog

Title

Power, ideology, and control / John C. Oliga.

Author

Oliga, John C.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1996.

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Details

Description

xxi, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary systems thinking

Uniform Title

Contemporary systems thinking

Subject

• Critical theory
• Ideology
• Power (Social sciences)
• Social control
• Liberty
• Happiness
• Social change
• critical theories (dialectical critiques)
• ideology
• freedom
• critical theory (sociological concept)
• Critical theory
• Happiness
• Ideology
• Liberty
• Social change
• Social control
• Freiheit
• Soziale Kontrolle
• Soziologische Theorie
• Macht
• Ideologie
• Kritische theorie
• Ideologie
• Macht
• Sociale controle
• Vrijheid
• Geluk
• Sociale verandering

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and indexes.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Critical Systems Thinking and Critical Social Theory -- 3. Forms of Social Order and Their Sustaining Worldviews -- 4. Individualism and Social Order -- 5. Unitarism and Social Order -- 6. Pluralism and Social Order -- 7. Power and Interests: From Domination to the Power of Knowing You Are Not Powerless -- 8. Ideology: From Mystification to the Power of Knowing That You Can Critically Reflect upon Yourself -- 9. Control and Social Order -- 10. Control and Human Interests: Methodological Foundations of Systems Methodologies -- 11. Control, Constancy, and Change: The Architecture of Power and Ideology -- 12. Control and Strategic Ideologies -- 13. Critical Social Theory: From Epistemology to Communicative Paradigm -- 14. Enlightenment, Empowerment, and Transformation of Societal Systems: What Is to Be Done? The Case of Developing Countries -- 15. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0306451603
• 9780306451607

LCCN

95046988

OCLC

• ocm33664905
• 33664905
• SCSB-8789768

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library