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Schroeder, Ralph.

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  • An age of limits = social theory for the 21st Century /
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    Title/Author: An age of limits/ Ralph Schroeder.
    Reminder of title: social theory for the 21st Century /
    Author: Schroeder, Ralph.
    Published: New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
    Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)
    [NT 15003449]: Cover; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 From the Birth of the Modern World to the Age of Limits; Ages and labels; Disciplinary approaches to politics, economics and culture; The emergence of free markets, rapid-discovery science, and democratic states; Free markets; Three cultures, one structural; Politics: democratic states and citizens; Differentiation and macro-social orders; Stratification: elites and people; Global powers?; From the Age of Extremes to the Age of Limits; 2 Convergence and Divergence; Sweden versus America; Americanization or Globalization?
    [NT 15003449]: Individualism in Sweden and America3 Paths towards Pluralist Democracy: Liberal versus Radical Interpretations; Liberal and radical endpoints; The state and economic development; The state's fiscal growth and economic transfers; A radical account of the varieties of capitalism; Three types; Liberalism and the varieties of capitalism; Comparing the radical and liberal accounts; 4 Free and Unfree Markets; The emergence of disembedding; Markets and their mechanism; Financial markets; The economic order: embeddedness versus disembeddedness; Beyond disciplinary turf wars.
    [NT 15003449]: 5 The Paradoxes of Science, Technology and Social ChangeThe production of scientific knowledge and technological innovation; Technology in everyday life: the example of information and communication technologies; Globalization, science and technology, and social theory; 6 The Limits to Transforming the Environment; Disciplinary fragmentation and lack of realism; Accelerated transformations and an uncontrolled experiment; Technology, social change, and the environment; Energy infrastructures and developmental paths; Counteracting limits; 7 Three Cultures; Religion; Consumption.
    [NT 15003449]: Science and technologyPatterns of culture; The limits of culture in everyday life; 8 Modernization and the Politics of Development; The puzzle of China; Openness to external influence; The pattern of the Chinese economy; Take-off and leap ahead; How capitalist?; Political domination and legitimacy; Nascent democracy?; Spectacle and predicament; India's fragmented populist democracy; Colonialism to independence; From successful to populist democracy; Economic development and social divides; Cultural conflict and diversity; A fragmented state?; India, China, and modernization.
    [NT 15003449]: 9 Social Theory in the Face of the FutureThe limits of markets; The limits of culture, and of science and technology; The limits of the state and politics; From comparative-historical sociology to political philosophy; Notes; References; Index.
    Subject: Political ethics. -
    Online resource: http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9781137314628
    ISBN: 9781137314628 (electronic bk.)
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