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Property and Power in Social Theory: A Study in Intellectual Rivalry

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Property and power perform a key role in social and political theories of class inequality and social stratification, however, theorists have yet clearly to define these concepts, their mutual boundaries and scopes of application. This book answers the property/power puzzle by undertaking a broad historical inquiry into its intellectual origins and present-day effects through a series of case studies,
Marxism vs. anarchism
* the fascist assertion of the primacy of the political
* social science as power theory
* the managerial revolution
* the knowledge society and the new intellectual classes

328 pages, Hardcover

First published March 9, 1998

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Dick Pels

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Dick Pels was tot voor kort hoogleraar sociologie aan Brunel University in Londen en is nu werkzaam als freelance publicist. Zijn huidige onderzoek richt zich vooral op de opkomst van de celebrity-cultuur in politiek, bedrijfsleven en wetenschap. Hij schreef onder andere Macht of eigendom? Een kwestie van intellectuele rivaliteit (1987) en Het democratisch verschil. Jacques de Kadt en de nieuwe elite (1993).'

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