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Power, ideology, and control / John C. Oliga
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Contemporary systems thinking | EBSCOhost eBook CollectionPublisher: New York : Plenum Press, c1996Description: xxi, 321 pages : Illustrationen ; 24 cmISBN:- 0585351309
- 9780585351308
- 303.3
- HM24
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Summary: What are critical systems thinking and critical social theory all about? What are social order, human freedom, and happiness? Can we shape our own destiny? Are the ideas of collective autonomy and responsibility utopian? In Power, Ideology, and Control, author John C. Oliga sheds light on these and other vital questions, offering innovative approaches to understanding society's increasing hypercomplexity. The book explores novel ideas for long-term societal transformation in chapters that discuss forms of social order and their sustaining world views; control and strategic ideologies; and critical social theoryPPN: PPN: 086542826Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-4-NLEBK | ZDB-1-NEL
pt. 1. Introduction : what are critical systems thinking and critical social theory all about? -- pt. 2. Metatheoretical concerns : what are social order and human freedom and happiness? -- pt. 3. Enlightenment and empowerment : toward self-clarity and self-will : must we remain helpless and ignorant of ourselves? -- pt. 4. Tranformation : toward individual freedom and happiness and collective autonomy and responsibility : can we not shape our own destinies? -- pt. 5. Concluding reflections : are the ideas of human freedom and happiness and collective autonomy and responsibility utopian?.
pt. 1. Introduction : what are critical systems thinking and critical social theory all about?pt. 2. Metatheoretical concerns : what are social order and human freedom and happiness? -- pt. 3. Enlightenment and empowerment : toward self-clarity and self-will : must we remain helpless and ignorant of ourselves? -- pt. 4. Tranformation : toward individual freedom and happiness and collective autonomy and responsibility : can we not shape our own destinies? -- pt. 5. Concluding reflections : are the ideas of human freedom and happiness and collective autonomy and responsibility utopian?
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