Inicio > Sociedad y ciencias sociales > Sociología y antropología > Sociología > Teoría social > The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy
The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy

The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy

Eva Etzioni-Halevy

61,56 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Teoría social
ISBN:
9781032857978
61,56 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

First published in 1985, The Knowledge Elite and the Failure of Prophecy presents a demystification of the role of the Knowledge Elite, or the role many intellectuals have purported to play in modern, Western, society.

Artículos relacionados

  • Rethinking untouchability
    Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza
    This book examines the transformation of untouchability into a political idea in India during the first half of the twentieth century. At its heart is Ambedkar’s role and the concepts he used to champion untouchability as a political problem. Ambedkar’s main objective was to comprehend the numerous avatars of untouchability in order to eradicate this practice. Ambedkar understo...
  • Islands of Order
    J. Stephen Lansing / Murray P. Cox
    Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and linguistic markers to shed light on...
  • Islands of Order
    J. Stephen Lansing / Murray P. Cox
    Two pioneering anthropologists reveal how complexity science can help us better understand how societies change over timeOver the past two decades, anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing and geneticist Murray Cox have explored dozens of villages on the islands of the Malay Archipelago, combining ethnographic research with research into genetic and linguistic markers to shed light on...
    Disponible

    37,20 €

  • The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology
    ...
  • Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment
    Aneira J. Edmunds
    How have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glossed over such abuses and been complicit in security politics which see the Muslim bod...
    Disponible

    35,86 €

  • Better?
    Brian Martin
    Over the past fifty years, have things been getting better or worse? Brian Martin sets out to address this big question by looking at a range of topics, from climate to feminism, from happiness to war, from deschooling to death. Along the way, he offers personal stories and assessments of key studies. This is an invitation to avoid excessive gloom and unwarranted optimism by th...
    Disponible

    27,71 €

Otros libros del autor

  • Social Change
    Eva Etzioni-Halevy
    First published in 1981, Social Change offers a critical review of the main classical and modern theories of social change, and a study of the processes of change in western societies since modernization. Divided into three parts, this book will be a beneficial read for students and researchers of sociology. ...
    Disponible

    60,73 €

  • Political Manipulation and Administrative Power
    Eva Etzioni-Halevy
    First published in 1979, Political Manipulation and Administrative Power examines in detail some of the means by which elites in western-style democracies have established and maintained themselves in power. It will be a beneficial read for students and researchers of politics, comparative studies, and international politics. ...
    Disponible

    61,15 €

  • Bureaucracy and Democracy (Routledge Library Editions
    Eva Etzioni-Halevy
    This book provides an overview of the complex relationship between bureaucracy and the politics of democracy and is essential reading for students of sociology, political science and public administration. It is designed to guide students through the maze of classical and modern theories on the topic, to give them basic information on the historical developments in this area an...
  • Divided People
    Eva Etzioni-Halevy
    The Divided People describes a fracturing Israel, a deeply divided state whose political system is buckling and whose society is rapidly polarizing into religious and secular camps. Written by a social scientist and drawing upon social science research, the work documents the emergence of separate social networks, residential areas, symbols, and identities-and even a split in t...
    Disponible

    69,78 €