Summary
Contents
Subject index
Introduction to Politics and Society draws on examples from popular political culture in order to convey how politics operates in the contemporary world. Examples illustrate the meaning of theories and show the relevance of central theoretical debates. Planned and developed with an eye to the needs of students, the book is an extraordinary resource for undergraduate teaching and study needs. It will be required reading for undergraduate students in sociology, politics and social policy.
War
Area Goals
By the end of this area you should have:
- An understanding of the nature of war: limited war, total war, and postmodern war
- Knowledge of the contribution of Clausewitz on war
- Some awareness of the causes of war
- A critical understanding of the contribution that social scientists have made to our understanding of war: Chomsky, Giddens, Wallerstein, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Gunder-Frank
- Some understandings of ‘the new world order’
- Some understanding of recent conflicts, particularly the Gulf War
Wars are deadly conflicts in which one society strives to attempt to impose its will on others through the use of armed force. However, as Ian Roxborough (1994) has pointed out, sociology has had very little success in generating a ‘integrated corpus of theory about the nature of ...
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