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The age of anxiety : conspiracy, theory and the human sciences
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ISBN: 0631231684 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,

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Ethnocentrism: theories of conflict, ethnic attitudes and group behavior
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ISBN: 0471531170 9780471531173 Year: 1972 Publisher: New York

Comprendre les conflits sociaux: déclenchement, déroulement, issue
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ISBN: 2708102052 9782708102057 Year: 1973 Publisher: Paris Editions d'organisation

Institutions and social conflict
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ISBN: 0521421896 0521420520 0511528175 9780521421898 9780511528170 9780521420525 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Secondly, it develops a new theory of institutional change that emphasises the distributional consequences of social institutions. The emergence of institutions is explained as a by-product of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts.


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Pouvoirs de vie, pouvoirs de mort : introduction a une anthropologie de la repression
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ISBN: 2082106527 9782082106528 Year: 1977 Publisher: Paris : Flammarion,

Social revolutions in the modern world
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ISBN: 0521400880 0521409381 1139173839 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning book States and Social Revolutions (1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some countries, but not in others that seem similar? Skocpol shows how she and other scholars have used ideas about states and societies to identify the particular types of regimes that are susceptible to the growth of revolutionary movements and vulnerable to transfers of state power to revolutionary challengers. Skocpol engages in thoughtful dialogue with critics, and she suggests how culture and ideology can properly be incorporated into historical and comparative studies. She also vigorously defends the value of an institutionalist, comparative and historical approach against recent challenges from Marxists, rational choice theorists, and culturally oriented interpreters of particular revolutions.

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