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An Invitation to Critical Sociology; What Is Critical Sociology Today?; On Conceptual Oppositions and Tensions; Artistic Versus Scientific; Idiographic Versus Nomothetic; Normative Versus Analytical; Hermeneutical Versus Structuralist; Outlining Foundational Principles; Critical Sociology's Three Themes; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Rethinking Society; Political Friendship and the Social Bond; Introduction; Political Friendship and the Stranger; Friendship, Strangership, and the Social; Strangers and Inequality; Conclusion; Bibliography
Interaction, Indifference, Injustice: Elements of a Normative Theory of Urban Solidarity Introduction; Differentiation and Indifference; Conceptual Contributions; Rethinking Recognition: Sociology at the Limits of Political Philosophy; Micro-Foundations: Anonymity, Mutual Indifference, and the Urban Interaction Order; Asymmetrical Recognition: From Mutual to Non-mutual Indifference; Soft Solidarity and Minimal Mutual Recognition; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Towards a Sociological Account of Political Agon: (Re)considering the Social Dimensions of Agonal Democracy
Introduction: Antagonistic and Agonal Accounts of Democracy Contingent Ontologies; A 'Purely Political' Account of Agonal Democracy; Rethinking the Social: The Value of Classical Perspectives; Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; On Conflict, Strangers, and Strangership; Sociation and Political Agon-An Alternative View; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Configuring Power; The Business Cycle and Capitalist Social Regulation: The Origins of Economic Government; Introduction; Performativity and Critique; Representing Economic Fluctuations
The Life of the Working Population in the Age of Depressions Business Cycles and Liberal Morality; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Civil Society Reconfigured: Manag(erializ)ing AIDS in Uganda; Introduction; AIDS in Uganda: An Overview; Managing AIDS: The Rise of 'Good Governance' and New Governance Strategies; Global AIDS Governance: Strategies, Implications, and Challenges; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; A Critical Sociology of International Expertise: The Case of International Democracy Assistance; Introduction; What Is Democracy Assistance?
Democracy Assistance in a Global Field of Power Expert Knowledge, Building Democratic Institutions, and "Capacity"; Process and Outcome in Democracy Evaluations; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part III: Practicing Culture; The Fun and Games of Creative Citizenship: Urban Cultural Policy and Participatory Public Art; Introduction: The City-as-Playground; Urban Avant-Gardes, Sociology, and Aesthetics at Play; Surrealism and the Sociology of Play; Play Aesthetics and Ethics: SI and Huizinga; The Creative City, Social Cohesion, and Urban Community Building
Interaction, Indifference, Injustice: Elements of a Normative Theory of Urban Solidarity Introduction; Differentiation and Indifference; Conceptual Contributions; Rethinking Recognition: Sociology at the Limits of Political Philosophy; Micro-Foundations: Anonymity, Mutual Indifference, and the Urban Interaction Order; Asymmetrical Recognition: From Mutual to Non-mutual Indifference; Soft Solidarity and Minimal Mutual Recognition; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Towards a Sociological Account of Political Agon: (Re)considering the Social Dimensions of Agonal Democracy
Introduction: Antagonistic and Agonal Accounts of Democracy Contingent Ontologies; A 'Purely Political' Account of Agonal Democracy; Rethinking the Social: The Value of Classical Perspectives; Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; On Conflict, Strangers, and Strangership; Sociation and Political Agon-An Alternative View; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Configuring Power; The Business Cycle and Capitalist Social Regulation: The Origins of Economic Government; Introduction; Performativity and Critique; Representing Economic Fluctuations
The Life of the Working Population in the Age of Depressions Business Cycles and Liberal Morality; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Civil Society Reconfigured: Manag(erializ)ing AIDS in Uganda; Introduction; AIDS in Uganda: An Overview; Managing AIDS: The Rise of 'Good Governance' and New Governance Strategies; Global AIDS Governance: Strategies, Implications, and Challenges; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; A Critical Sociology of International Expertise: The Case of International Democracy Assistance; Introduction; What Is Democracy Assistance?
Democracy Assistance in a Global Field of Power Expert Knowledge, Building Democratic Institutions, and "Capacity"; Process and Outcome in Democracy Evaluations; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part III: Practicing Culture; The Fun and Games of Creative Citizenship: Urban Cultural Policy and Participatory Public Art; Introduction: The City-as-Playground; Urban Avant-Gardes, Sociology, and Aesthetics at Play; Surrealism and the Sociology of Play; Play Aesthetics and Ethics: SI and Huizinga; The Creative City, Social Cohesion, and Urban Community Building