Birnbaum Norman 1926 (4 results)

Birnbaum, Norman, 1926-. The crisis of industrial society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969, xi, 185pp., dust-jacket worn around edges and with long closed tear on rear panel roughly reglued, cover price $4.75, very good black cloth but top foredge is soiled, LAID IN: typed slip from Neil Smelser, Institute of International Studies sending the book to the Research Scholars Group. Dust-jacket design by Ronald Clyne. New power elites and social classes, student revolts, cultural fragmentation - evidences of current inequity and unrest in the United States, France, Germany and Britain - are set in historical and sociological perspective in Mr. Birnbaum's investigation of the postwar crisis of the Western industrial nations. In three trenchant essays the author calls for a re-evaluation of some of the most commonly accepted ideas of modern social and political thinkers. He points to contradictions within modern society, and in particular to the inadequacies of traditional concepts of class, power, and culture where these problems are at issue. Thoroughly contemporary in its emphasis and cosmopolitan in its approach, the book draws concrete examples from the American experience as well as that of many of the nations of Europe, where the author lived and taught for more than a decade. Mr. Birnbaum distinguishes between the schematic treatment of class systems and their actual development in history and society. He sketches the history of the modern class system to show that inequality remains intensive. He argues also that the mass of the people are no nearer political control than a century ago, and he weighs potentialities for the rise of a new and humanistic industrial culture. Mr. Birnbaum applies to extant situations such sociological concepts as alienation, bureaucratization, and generational conflict. He explores the position of women in industrial society, the role of the unions and the intelligentsia, technology's effects upon political attitudes, and the possibilities of radicalizing the new middle class. He sees the student revolt, and particularly that of May 1968 in Paris, as highly significant. "The May Revolution," he writes, "was a temporary union of those who refused the 'consumer society' (a phrase much used in those days) and those who did not consume enough. The absurdity and inhumanity of a society organized precisely about this difference obsessed the participants. . The barricades erected by the Parisian students had, apparently, symbolic value for an entire generation." Norman Birnbaum is Professor of Sociology at Amherst College, and the author of Sociology and Religion (with Gertrude Lenzer), and The Sociological Analysis of Ideology, 1940-1960. From 1952 to 1966 he lived in Europe, where he studied in Germany, taught at Oxford University, the University of Strasbourg and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and helped to launch The New Left Review. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University, where he has also taught. Mr. Birnbaum has written articles for Commentary, Partisan Review, and The Nation as well as for scholarly journals.

, Birnbaum, Norman, 1926-. Toward a critical sociology. New York, Oxford University Press, 1971, xiv, 451pp., good red cloth, minor stain at bottom of spine, spine a bit faded, a few minor pencil notations by Coser, previous owner's name: Coser [sociologist Lewis Coser].

Broschiert. Condition: New. 1a.ed. en esta colección. 225x150 mm. Colección Kriterios, 13. 417 p., Rústica con solapas y sobrecubierta. Sprache: Spanisch, NUEVO / NEU / NEW. Hay muchos libros sobre el socialismo europeo, y también muchos sobre el reformismo social estadounidense, pero DESPUÉS DEL PROGRESO no sólo combina ambas perspectivas, sino que las enmarca en un amplio panorama histórico, lo que permite a NORMAN BIRNBAUM analizar el papel político de la religión, el devastador impacto del estalinismo y la influencia de las tradiciones nacionales y de los conflictos socioeconómicos. Siguiendo la brillante tradición de Joseph Schumpeter y Hannah Arendt, BIRNBAUM, impulsor de importantes proyectos políticos progresistas a ambos lados del Atlántico, era el estudioso idóneo para emprender esta tarea. [Extracto de texto de contracubierta] ** 10% DESCUENTO/RABATT/DISCOUNT PRIMAVERA * 15,30 (reduced from 17,00) **.

Il saggio del grande sociologo amricano BIRNBAUM occupa 20 pagine sui limiti del liberalismo delle società liberali occidentali quando sia alleato all'IMPERIALISMO e del Socialismo dei Paesi socialisti con una dinastia monocolore e un apparatostatale burocratico. Il fasc. in-8° (cm. 23,9x16,7), cartoncino leggero edit., è completo delle sue 108 pagine e contiene inoltre: 1) Giovanni SARTORI, "LIBERALISMO e DEMOCRAZIA", 22 pagine su eguaglianza e libertà in un momemto in cui liberalismo e democrazia tendono a divergere. 2) 10 brevi saggi allora d'attualità.