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The last half-century : = societal change and politics in America /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The last half-century :/ Morris Janowitz.
Reminder of title:	societal change and politics in America /
Author:	Janowitz, Morris.
Published:	Chicago :University of Chicago Press, : c1978.,
Description:	xiii, 582 p. ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	I: Frame of Reference -- II: Master Trends, 1920-1976 -- III: The System of Social Organization -- IV: Rationality, Institution Building, and Social Control.
Subject:	Social change. -
Subject:	United States - Social conditions - 20th century. -
ISBN:	9780226393070

The last half-century : = societal change and politics in America /
Janowitz, Morris.

The last half-century :societal change and politics in America /Morris Janowitz. - Chicago :University of Chicago Press,c1978. - xiii, 582 p. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I: Frame of Reference -- II: Master Trends, 1920-1976 -- III: The System of Social Organization -- IV: Rationality, Institution Building, and Social Control.

The Last Half-Century represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship by Morris Janowitz. In this comprehensive and systematic analysis of the major trends in American society during the past fifty years, he probes the weakening of popular party affiliations and the increased inability of elected representatives to rule. Centering his work on the crucial concept of social control, Janowitz orders and assesses a vast amount of empirical research to clarify the failure of basic social institutions to resolve our chronic conflicts. For Janowitz, social control denotes a society's capacity to regulate itself within a moral framework that transcends simple self-interest. He poses urgent questions: Why has social control been so drastically weakened in our advanced industrial society? And what strategies can we use to strengthen it again? The explanation rests in part on the changes in social structure which make it more and more complicated for citizens to calculate their political self-interest. At the same time, complex economic and defense problems also strain an already overburdened legislative system, making effective, responsive political rule increasingly difficult. Janowitz concludes by assessing the response of the social sciences to the pressing problem of social control and asserts that new forms of citizen participation in the government must be found.--Publisher description.

ISBN: 9780226393070US30.00

LCCN: 78017715Subjects--Topical Terms:

526824
Social change.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

589746
United States
--Social conditions--20th century.Subjects--Index Terms:

Geschichte

LC Class. No.: HN57 / .J2479 1978

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