Axel Van Den Berg
Biographic Data
| ID | 259112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Axel Van Den Berg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Axel Van Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Berg |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DEN BERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7911-2368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
"Cutting Off the Branch on Which We Are Sitting? On Postpositivism, Value Neutrality, and the "Bias Paradox
Global diffusion of three road safety policies, 1964–2015
Global convergence of public policies has been regarded as a defining feature of the late twentieth century. This study explores the generalizability of this thesis for three road safety measures: (i) road safety agencies; (ii) child restraint laws; and (iii) mandatory use of daytime running lights. This study analyzes cross-national longitudinal data using survival analysis for the years 1964–2015 in 181 countries. The first main finding is that…
Of Babies and Bath Water
Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism
Combating Poverty: Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State
Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes over the past several decades
Public Sociology, Professional Sociology, and Democracy
From Primates to Parliaments
Marion Fourcade, Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Flexicurity: What Can We Learn from the Scandinavian Experience
This article criticises the multiplicity of meanings that have been attached to the term ‘flexicurity’ and the largely rhetorical, depoliticising uses to which it has been put by EU-level policy makers and analysts. It then proceeds to examine the two cases in which the underlying idea of flexicurity – that social protection and economic performance can be mutually reinforcing – has been most unambiguously pursued: the Swedish ‘Rehn-Meidner’ plan…
What Do Public Sociologists Do? A Critique of Burawoy
Michael Burawoy certainly seems to have the requisite organizational and marketing savvy to be a successful 'public sociologist.' Preaching from a few well-chosen pulpits, the ASA Presidency first among them, he has almost singlehandedly created a multinational cottage industry busily debating his ideas about the future of our discipline. The responses have been as varied as they have been numerous. While many have been quite critical, the critic…
The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century (review)
Reviewed by: The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century Axel van den Berg Immanuel Wallerstein , The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, 278 pp. For those who haven't followed Immanuel Wallerstein's recent work very closely, this collection of speeches and major addresses delivered during the 1990s to academic audien…
The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
Axel van den Berg, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issue on Social Policy: Canadian and International Perspectives (Spring, 2004), pp. 324-328
Conflict Theories in Political Sociology
Once upon a time, Parsons's structural functionalism, depicting society as a community founded on a value consensus, was thought, at least in the United States, to be the dominant theoretical paradigm in the discipline. To be sure, there was always a fair amount of resistance to this view (e.g., C. Wright Mills, Ralf Dahrendorf, Dennis Wrong, and others). But it was not until some time during the 1960s, in part no doubt encouraged by the turmoil …
Présentation
L a sociologie s'est traditionnellement dfinie comme tant l'antithse ou tout le moins le complment du modle utilitariste, modle dominant en science conomique et influent en science politique. Ceci vaut certainement pour la tradition sociologique qui va de Comte Parsons en passant par Durkheim. Mais, la suite du dclin de la grande thorie sociologique, l'hritire de l'cole utilitariste, la thorie du choix rationnel (tcr), a merg comme l'une des rare…
Aesthetic Modernism, the first among equals? A look at aesthetic value systems in cross-cultural, age and visual arts educated and non-visual arts educated judging cohorts
In this paper, we seek to understand the formation of cultural values and the hierarchies of aesthetic judgment among adults and children from Brazil and Canada. Are aesthetic judgments consistent within cultures? Across age groups? Across cultures? This paper looks at some initial work on these questions. In 1982 Gardner and Winner proposed that the artwork of young children and artist-adults shared important aesthetic properties. Davis's resear…
The Oversocialized Conception of Man
The Social Sciences According to Bunge
Presentation de l'ouvrage de M. Bunge intitule «La science sociale en debat: une perspective philosophique» (1998) qui defend le projet ambitieux de rendre compte des principaux debats methodologiques, conceptuels et philosophiques au sein de chacune des disciplines sociologiques, telles que la biosociologie, la psychologie et l'anthropologie
Teaching art versus teaching taste: What Art Teachers Can Learn From Looking at a Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Children's Art
The Vertical Mosaic Revisited
Manufacturing Change: A Two-Country, Three- Industry Comparison
There are three broad explanations for why workers adapt, or fail to adapt, to technological change in the workplace. The adversarial perspective holds that employment security produces resistant workers, and conversely that insecurity assures efficiency in adapting a workforce to technological and organizational changes. Institutionalists argue the opposite, emphasizing that secure workers have little to fear from change. Finally, a neo-corporat…
Manufacturing Change: A Two-Country, Three-Industry Comparison
Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Labor Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization
To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes Toward Wage Flexibility
This article provides an empirical assessment of the social psychological underpinnings of arguments that link labor market security to wage flexibility. We employ data from two surveys of blue-collar manufacturing workers, one from Canada and the other from Sweden, that were conducted by the respective national statistics agencies. The dependent variable is a dichotomy tapping respondents' willingness to take a wage cut to save their jobs. Indep…
External Flexibility in Sweden and Canada: A Three Industry Comparison
There is a substantial body of writing that identifies efficiency advantages from the provision of employment security, both within individual plants and at the level of the national economy. However, the business cycle persists in capitalist economies, so the question arises: how do managements deal with the fluctuations in the demand for labour which are associated with it? That is to say, what are management policies with respect to external f…
What Do Public Sociologists Do? A Critique of Burawoy
Michael Burawoy certainly seems to have the requisite organizational and marketing savvy to be a successful 'public sociologist.' Preaching from a few well-chosen pulpits, the ASA Presidency first among them, he has almost singlehandedly created a multinational cottage industry busily debating his ideas about the future of our discipline. The responses have been as varied as they have been numerous. While many have been quite critical, the critic…
The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
Axel van den Berg, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 29, No. 2, Special Issue on Social Policy: Canadian and International Perspectives (Spring, 2004), pp. 324-328
Critical Theory: Is There Still Hope
The first critical theorists were unable to give their notion of "substantive reason," as opposed to merely instrumental rationality, any real meaning. They ran aground on the old dilemma inherent in attempting to combine the ideals of freedom and reason, what might be called the "dilemma of democratic radicalism." A second generation, led by Habermas, claims to have resolved the dilemma with (1) a "systems analysis" demonstrating the persistent …
Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes Toward Wage Flexibility
This article provides an empirical assessment of the social psychological underpinnings of arguments that link labor market security to wage flexibility. We employ data from two surveys of blue-collar manufacturing workers, one from Canada and the other from Sweden, that were conducted by the respective national statistics agencies. The dependent variable is a dichotomy tapping respondents' willingness to take a wage cut to save their jobs. Indep…
Commentaries/Commentaires: On ‘class exploitation’ in Canada
The Oversocialized Conception of Man
The Social Sciences According to Bunge
Presentation de l'ouvrage de M. Bunge intitule «La science sociale en debat: une perspective philosophique» (1998) qui defend le projet ambitieux de rendre compte des principaux debats methodologiques, conceptuels et philosophiques au sein de chacune des disciplines sociologiques, telles que la biosociologie, la psychologie et l'anthropologie
Liberalism without Reason
"Cutting Off the Branch on Which We Are Sitting? On Postpositivism, Value Neutrality, and the "Bias Paradox
Of Babies and Bath Water
Manufacturing Change: A Two-Country, Three- Industry Comparison
There are three broad explanations for why workers adapt, or fail to adapt, to technological change in the workplace. The adversarial perspective holds that employment security produces resistant workers, and conversely that insecurity assures efficiency in adapting a workforce to technological and organizational changes. Institutionalists argue the opposite, emphasizing that secure workers have little to fear from change. Finally, a neo-corporat…
Insecurity, Labour Relations, and Flexibility in Two Process Industries: A Canada/Sweden Comparison
Michael R. Smith, Anthony C. Masi, Axel van den Berg, Joseph Smucker, Insecurity, Labour Relations, and Flexibility in Two Process Industries: A Canada/Sweden Comparison, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter, 1997), pp. 31-63
Some Evidence of the Effects of Labour Market Policies on Workers' Attitudes toward Change in Canada and Sweden
Joseph Smucker, Axel van den Berg, Some Evidence of the Effects of Labour Market Policies on Workers' Attitudes toward Change in Canada and Sweden, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 51-74
Social Theory, Metatheory, and Lofty Ideals: A Reply to Wexler and Parker and to Ashley
The Marxist Theory of the State in Practice
Critical Theory: Is There Still Hope
The first critical theorists were unable to give their notion of "substantive reason," as opposed to merely instrumental rationality, any real meaning. They ran aground on the old dilemma inherent in attempting to combine the ideals of freedom and reason, what might be called the "dilemma of democratic radicalism." A second generation, led by Habermas, claims to have resolved the dilemma with (1) a "systems analysis" demonstrating the persistent …
The Marxist Theory of the State in Practice
Commentaries/Commentaires: On ‘class exploitation’ in Canada
On Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say: A Response to Craven
Axel van den Berg, Michael R. Smith, On Saying What You Mean and Meaning What You Say: A Response to Craven, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 333-337
Social Theory, Metatheory, and Lofty Ideals: A Reply to Wexler and Parker and to Ashley
Theory and Politics: Studies in the Development of Critical Theory
This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research yields fascinating insights into the actual workings of the Institute and the relationships among its members. The book has already had a major impact in Germany, where it has opened up the subject for argument and analysis by a new generation of scholars.Theory and Politics first explor…
The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism
The spectacular growth of Marxist literature on politics and the state in capitalist society has been widely hailed as cumulative proof of Marxism's success in producing an effective theory of the political superstructure. More generally, it has been seen as confirmation of the health and vigor of Marxist theory. Axel van den Berg raises serious questions about both claims. Through comprehensive analysis of Marxist thought on politics and the sta…
The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism
Some Evidence of the Effects of Labour Market Policies on Workers' Attitudes toward Change in Canada and Sweden
Joseph Smucker, Axel van den Berg, Some Evidence of the Effects of Labour Market Policies on Workers' Attitudes toward Change in Canada and Sweden, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 51-74
Critical Issues in Social Theory
Writers in Prison
Whatever Happened to the Legitimation Crisis? Some Reflections on the Evolution of the Québec Welfare State
Selon les theories marxisantes de l'etat, si populaires il n'y a pas si longtemps, la fonction primordiale de consistait de la legitimation du systeme capitaliste par des depenses incessement croissantes allouees aux programmes compensateurs de providence, servant a voiler la vraie nature exploitatrice du systeme d'accumulation capitaliste. L'auteur developpe les principales implications empiriques de cette affirmation et les examine avec des don…
Rational Choice Theory: Advocacy and Critique
Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives
Long a dominant figure in the French human sciences, Pierre Bourdieu has become internationally influential in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. A major figure in the development of practice as an organizing concept in social research, Bourdieu has emerged as the foremost advocate of reflexive social science; his work combines an astonishing range of empirical work with highly sophisticated theory. American reception of…
External Flexibility in Sweden and Canada: A Three Industry Comparison
There is a substantial body of writing that identifies efficiency advantages from the provision of employment security, both within individual plants and at the level of the national economy. However, the business cycle persists in capitalist economies, so the question arises: how do managements deal with the fluctuations in the demand for labour which are associated with it? That is to say, what are management policies with respect to external f…
Liberalism without Reason
Insecurity, Labour Relations, and Flexibility in Two Process Industries: A Canada/Sweden Comparison
Michael R. Smith, Anthony C. Masi, Axel van den Berg, Joseph Smucker, Insecurity, Labour Relations, and Flexibility in Two Process Industries: A Canada/Sweden Comparison, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter, 1997), pp. 31-63
Sociology and Its Publics: The Forms and Fates of Disciplinary Organization
To Cut or Not to Cut: A Cross-National Comparison of Attitudes Toward Wage Flexibility
This article provides an empirical assessment of the social psychological underpinnings of arguments that link labor market security to wage flexibility. We employ data from two surveys of blue-collar manufacturing workers, one from Canada and the other from Sweden, that were conducted by the respective national statistics agencies. The dependent variable is a dichotomy tapping respondents' willingness to take a wage cut to save their jobs. Indep…
Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
Labor Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison
The Vertical Mosaic Revisited
Manufacturing Change: A Two-Country, Three- Industry Comparison
There are three broad explanations for why workers adapt, or fail to adapt, to technological change in the workplace. The adversarial perspective holds that employment security produces resistant workers, and conversely that insecurity assures efficiency in adapting a workforce to technological and organizational changes. Institutionalists argue the opposite, emphasizing that secure workers have little to fear from change. Finally, a neo-corporat…
Manufacturing Change: A Two-Country, Three-Industry Comparison
The Oversocialized Conception of Man
Sociology (31 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Epistemology (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (8 works)