Charles Derber
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 114459 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charles Derber |
| NOMBRES | Charles |
| APELLIDO | Derber |
| FIRMA | DERBER C |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Frightened Society
While security stories often point to real threats, the narratives of leaders are as much about legitimating the power of rulers and the political and economic system that brought them to power. Derber and Magrass offer a penetrating examination of this phenomenon across history and types of societies. Their analysis reveals the great irony about security stories: they historically increase insecurity, imperiling citizens and nation. In the US to…
Welcome to the Revolution
When the Women’s March gathered millions just one day after Trump’s inauguration, a new era of progressive action was born. Organizing on the far Right led to Trump’s election, bringing authoritarianism and the specter of neo-fascism, and intensifying corporate capitalism’s growing crises of inequality and injustices. Yet now we see a new universalizing resistance among progressive and left movements for truth, dignity, and a world based on democ…
Greed to Green
This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing, Derber shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unless we rapidly transform our economy and create a new green American Dr…
Public Sociologies
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Des hiérarchies à l'intérieur de hiérarchie
Cet article explore la position de classe de professionnels dans l'entreprise capitaliste. Ayant procédé à un examen historique de la situation des artisans du 19e siècle, de même que de celle des professionnels du 2O' siècle, nous arguons que des relations de production "logocratiques" sont en train d'émerger parallèlement aux relations de production capitalistes tout en étant mêlées à celles-ci. Nous entendons par "logocratique" un deuxième axe…
Naming the Enemy
Introduction * 1. Structure and Anti-Structure in the Face of Globalization * 2. Contestation and Reform * 3. Globalization from Below * 4. Delinking, Relocalization and Sovereignty * 5. PopCulture versus AgriCulture & Other Reflections on the Anti-Corporate Movement * A Partial List of Organizations * Sources * Index
If not socialism, what
The sun has set on the prospects for socialism after the Cold War. As Paul Starr proclaimed in a funeral oratory, “it is evidently harder to enter the kingdom of socialism than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.” But the “death of socialism,” a tragedy for many on the left, may be a blessing in disguise, opening the door to more promising economic alternatives. The most important of these, which has been emerging quietly in the shad…
What's Left? Radical Politics in the Postcommunist Era
The collapse of Soviet-style communism has provoked an identity crisis among socialists and leftists giving rise to separate identity politics among feminists, gays and other social movements. This study explores this crisis and offers suggestions for a new vision and direction for the left
Rights and the Common Good
Beyond wilding
On April 19, 1989, in New York City, a group of teenagers ages fourteen to seventeen went into Central Park. It was a clear night and not too cold, at least not too cold to discourage hardy joggers from getting their exercise. The teenagers dispersed into small bands and began targeting victims for some mischief. One group of six youths came upon a young woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. They cornered her in a gully and began to…
Power In The Highest Degree
Abstract One of the most sweeping works of social criticism to appear in years, this work offers a bold theory of modern classes and a comprehensive portrait of the modern professional. Drawing on one of the largest studies ever undertaken, including interviews with over 1,000 professionals, the authors show how experts, claiming a monopoly on many types of knowledge, are radically transforming the economic and social order. This book demonstrate…
Nuevos mandarines o nuevo proletariado? Poder profesional en el trabajo
Este artículo sostiene que están emergiendo en los Estados Unidos nuevas relaciones de producción, basadas en el poder de la clase profesional, así como en el poder de la clase capitalista. Basándose en un amplio estudio de corporaciones americanas, administraciones públicas, universidades y practicas profesionales, los autores sostienen que los profesionales han creado jerarquías "logocráticas" (o basadas en el conocimiento), que se entremezclan…
Knowledge, Class, Status, and Profession
Power in the Highest Degree
"The authors show how, by dispensing self-interested and morally colored judgments as scientific truth, modern professionals are trying to monopolize what passes for objective knowledge."--Jacket
The Nuclear Seduction
This study challenges current assumptions of the post-Cold War period that previous dangers concerning the arms race and nuclear war will fade into obscurity. It contends that today's nuclear problems are based upon interventions by the USA and its allies in such areas as the Lebanon and Angola
The hardware is not the problem
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes
The Mind of the Moralist
Division of Labor
Professionals as Workers
Toward a Theory of Worker Participation
This paper proposes that the emergence of shop-floor worker participation projects in many of the largest corporations in the United States has major theoretical interest because it points to a shift in the structure of American management from Taylorist forms of organization toward 'post-Taylorist' systems based on 'relative worker autonomy' and limited democratic organization on the shop floor. The postulated shift toward 'relative worker auton…
Managing professionals
Sponsorship and the control of physicians
The Pursuit of Attention
Students, Values, and Politics
Public Sociologies
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Phenomenology and Sociology
Managing professionals
Toward a Theory of Worker Participation
This paper proposes that the emergence of shop-floor worker participation projects in many of the largest corporations in the United States has major theoretical interest because it points to a shift in the structure of American management from Taylorist forms of organization toward 'post-Taylorist' systems based on 'relative worker autonomy' and limited democratic organization on the shop floor. The postulated shift toward 'relative worker auton…
Unemployment and the Entitled Worker
This paper explores a tentative theory of an emerging culture of entitlement among young workers. Using a sample of predominantly college-educated, young, unemployed workers, I explore the new sources of entitlement-belief and examine the proposition that believing oneself to be entitled to a good job heightens dispositions toward radicalism among the unemployed. The findings show strong jobentitlement beliefs among these workers and support the …
Des hiérarchies à l'intérieur de hiérarchie
Cet article explore la position de classe de professionnels dans l'entreprise capitaliste. Ayant procédé à un examen historique de la situation des artisans du 19e siècle, de même que de celle des professionnels du 2O' siècle, nous arguons que des relations de production "logocratiques" sont en train d'émerger parallèlement aux relations de production capitalistes tout en étant mêlées à celles-ci. Nous entendons par "logocratique" un deuxième axe…
If not socialism, what
The sun has set on the prospects for socialism after the Cold War. As Paul Starr proclaimed in a funeral oratory, “it is evidently harder to enter the kingdom of socialism than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.” But the “death of socialism,” a tragedy for many on the left, may be a blessing in disguise, opening the door to more promising economic alternatives. The most important of these, which has been emerging quietly in the shad…
The Nuclear Seduction
This study challenges current assumptions of the post-Cold War period that previous dangers concerning the arms race and nuclear war will fade into obscurity. It contends that today's nuclear problems are based upon interventions by the USA and its allies in such areas as the Lebanon and Angola
Sponsorship and the control of physicians
Beyond wilding
On April 19, 1989, in New York City, a group of teenagers ages fourteen to seventeen went into Central Park. It was a clear night and not too cold, at least not too cold to discourage hardy joggers from getting their exercise. The teenagers dispersed into small bands and began targeting victims for some mischief. One group of six youths came upon a young woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. They cornered her in a gully and began to…
Prophecy and Progress
Underemployment and the American Dream-'Underemployment-Consciousness' and Radicalism Among Young Workers
This paper explores propositions concerning the work attitudes and political views of educated young workers who are not able to find jobs commensurate with their education and skills. Underemployment theorists have proposed that growing numbers of college graduates are over-educated for the jobs available to them and may develop (1) 'underemployment-consciousness' and (2) a new political radicalism growing out of their work-deprivation. In a sam…
Terrorism and the Movement
We do not as a rule devote space in Monthly Review to questions of tactics, not of course because they are unimportant but because we think an independent journal can normally make a more useful contribution in the areas of history, theory, and analysis. The question of individual acts of violence, however, has become much more than one of tactics. Bombings and similar incidents have increased to such an extent in the last year or so that they ar…
The Clouded Vision
Unemployment and the Entitled Worker
This paper explores a tentative theory of an emerging culture of entitlement among young workers. Using a sample of predominantly college-educated, young, unemployed workers, I explore the new sources of entitlement-belief and examine the proposition that believing oneself to be entitled to a good job heightens dispositions toward radicalism among the unemployed. The findings show strong jobentitlement beliefs among these workers and support the …
The Sociological Theory of C. Wright Mills. Joseph A. Scimecca
Prophecy and Progress
Phenomenology and Sociology
Underemployment and the American Dream-'Underemployment-Consciousness' and Radicalism Among Young Workers
This paper explores propositions concerning the work attitudes and political views of educated young workers who are not able to find jobs commensurate with their education and skills. Underemployment theorists have proposed that growing numbers of college graduates are over-educated for the jobs available to them and may develop (1) 'underemployment-consciousness' and (2) a new political radicalism growing out of their work-deprivation. In a sam…
Students, Values, and Politics
The Pursuit of Attention
The Pursuit of Attention
Division of Labor
Professionals as Workers
Toward a Theory of Worker Participation
This paper proposes that the emergence of shop-floor worker participation projects in many of the largest corporations in the United States has major theoretical interest because it points to a shift in the structure of American management from Taylorist forms of organization toward 'post-Taylorist' systems based on 'relative worker autonomy' and limited democratic organization on the shop floor. The postulated shift toward 'relative worker auton…
Managing professionals
Sponsorship and the control of physicians
The Mind of the Moralist
Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes
The hardware is not the problem
Power in the Highest Degree
"The authors show how, by dispensing self-interested and morally colored judgments as scientific truth, modern professionals are trying to monopolize what passes for objective knowledge."--Jacket
The Nuclear Seduction
This study challenges current assumptions of the post-Cold War period that previous dangers concerning the arms race and nuclear war will fade into obscurity. It contends that today's nuclear problems are based upon interventions by the USA and its allies in such areas as the Lebanon and Angola
Knowledge, Class, Status, and Profession
Power In The Highest Degree
Abstract One of the most sweeping works of social criticism to appear in years, this work offers a bold theory of modern classes and a comprehensive portrait of the modern professional. Drawing on one of the largest studies ever undertaken, including interviews with over 1,000 professionals, the authors show how experts, claiming a monopoly on many types of knowledge, are radically transforming the economic and social order. This book demonstrate…
Nuevos mandarines o nuevo proletariado? Poder profesional en el trabajo
Este artículo sostiene que están emergiendo en los Estados Unidos nuevas relaciones de producción, basadas en el poder de la clase profesional, así como en el poder de la clase capitalista. Basándose en un amplio estudio de corporaciones americanas, administraciones públicas, universidades y practicas profesionales, los autores sostienen que los profesionales han creado jerarquías "logocráticas" (o basadas en el conocimiento), que se entremezclan…
Beyond wilding
On April 19, 1989, in New York City, a group of teenagers ages fourteen to seventeen went into Central Park. It was a clear night and not too cold, at least not too cold to discourage hardy joggers from getting their exercise. The teenagers dispersed into small bands and began targeting victims for some mischief. One group of six youths came upon a young woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. They cornered her in a gully and began to…
What's Left? Radical Politics in the Postcommunist Era
The collapse of Soviet-style communism has provoked an identity crisis among socialists and leftists giving rise to separate identity politics among feminists, gays and other social movements. This study explores this crisis and offers suggestions for a new vision and direction for the left
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