This compilation addresses issues of globalization, democracy, human rights, and how universities can act to promote steps towards greater social justice.
Harry Dahms
The Diversity of Social Theories
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Since the time when Talcott Parsons pursued the project of one overarching general theory of society, the landscape of social theory has vastly changed, and the pluralism and multidimensionality increased tremendously. This volume presents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informe
The Vitality of Critical Theory
Author: Harry F. Dahms
The common theme of this volume is that the critical theory of the Frankfurt School is as important today, if not more so, as it was at its inception during the 1930s. The book looks at the distinguishing features of this tradition and how it is critical, yet also complementary, of other approaches in the social sciences, esp
Theorizing the Dynamics of Social Processes
Co-Editor: Harry Dahms
The chapters in this volume represent steps in the direction of demonstrating the importance of efforts to theorize the dynamics of specific social, cultural, political, and/or economic processes to the social sciences in general. They aim to clarify how those efforts are central to the core mission of each of the social scie
Nature, Knowledge and Negation: Current Perspectives in Social Theory
Editor: Harry F. Dahms
This volume deals with developments in the social theory of environmental issues and the increasingly questionable possibility of shared knowledge at a time of increasing fragmentation of common frameworks, distraction from key issues, and dilution of the idea of objectivity.