Power, Ideology, and Control

• Main Author: Oliga, John C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1996.
• Series: Contemporary Systems Thinking,
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Political science.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Business and Management, general.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

One of the great challenges we face today is coming to grips with "forces of power/' in both theoretical and methodological terms, in a way that prepares us for actionỚ action that is not totally subject to existing forces. The literature has some excellent theoretical accounts of power,...

Table of Contents:

• Critical Systems Thinking and Critical Social Theory
• Metatheoretical Concerns
• Forms of Social Order and Their Sustaining Worldviews
• Individualism and Social Order
• Unitarism and Social Order
• Pluralism and Social Order
• Enlightenment and Empowerment
• Power and Interests
• Ideology
• Transformation: Toward Individual Freedom and Happiness and Collective Autonomy and Responsibility
• Control and Social Order
• Control and Human Interests
• Control, Constancy, and Change
• Control and Strategic Ideologies
• Critical Social Theory
• Concluding Reflections
• Enlightenment, Empowerment, and Transformation of Societal Systems
• Conclusion.