Sociology at the crossroads and other essays
In: Heinemann books on sociology
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In: Heinemann books on sociology
In: Social and economic administration, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 73-81
ISSN: 1467-9515
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 88, Heft 4, S. 744-746
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 326-327
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 87, Heft 1, S. 92-94
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 407-410
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 141-155
ISSN: 1469-8684
The author explains how his interest in rights, as they were established in the 18th and 19th centuries, led to an interest in the forms of power that emerged in the 20th. Theories about the innate vulnerability of mass democracy to assaults by autocratic power are discussed and the capacities of different kinds of rights to resist them are assessed. The conclusion reached is that civil rights are the strongest in this respect, so much so that they may be regarded as being themselves a form of power. There follows a discussion of Max Weber's concepts of yacht and Herrschaft. The ideas developed in the preceding argument are then applied to the balance of power in the American political system, and to `Black Power' and its rejection of the civil rights movement among and on behalf of Negro Americans. It is suggested that the aim of `Black Power' is to win directly for an alienated minority the position of strength which civil rights can give to the citizens in a democracy.
In: The political quarterly, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 1-10
ISSN: 1467-923X
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 82, Heft 3, S. 498-499
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 90-93
ISSN: 1469-8684
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 80, Heft 4, S. 675-677
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 215-221
ISSN: 1755-618X
In: International affairs, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 61-62
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: International affairs, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 85-87
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 66, Heft 4, S. 411-412
ISSN: 1537-5390