Politics, Social Theory, Utopia and the World-System

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Chamsy el-Ojeili

   Pages 1-4

3. On Sociology

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4. Traditions and Concepts

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5. Transformations

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6. Ideologies and Utopias

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7. Masses

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8. Identities

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9. Movements

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10. Violence

    • Chamsy el-Ojeili

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11. Globalization

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12. Equality

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13. Concluding Reflections

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14. Back Matter

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It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary topics, such as violence, social movements, equality, identity and democracy. Foregrounding the imagination of possibilities (utopia), the mapping of the present (theory), and the transformation of the world-system (historical and global questions), the book surveys central issues and paradigms in contemproary political sociology, urging a recommitment to certain concepts and traditions for guidance in thinking and acting in the world.

• globalization
• Ideologie
• political sociology
• politics
• social theory
• sociology
• transformation
• utopia
• violence
• democracy

• Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

  Chamsy el-Ojeili

CHAMSY EL-OJEILI Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of From Left Communism to Post-Modernism: Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse, and with Patrick Hayden, co-author of Critical Theories of Globalization, and co-editor of Confronting Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays.

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