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Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics is a political science book from 1960 by Seymour Martin Lipset. [1] The book is an influential analysis of the bases of democracy across the world. One of the important sections is Chapter 2: "Economic Development and Democracy."
Helen Merrell Lynd (March 17, 1896 – January 30, 1982) was an American sociologist, social philosopher, educator, and author.She is best known for conducting the first Middletown studies of Muncie, Indiana, with her husband, Robert Staughton Lynd; as the coauthor of Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937 ...
Seymour Martin Lipset (/ ˈ l ɪ p s ɪ t / LIP-sit; March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist.His major work was in the fields of political sociology, trade union organization, social stratification, public opinion, and the sociology of intellectual life.
Social primary goods: this category includes rights (civil rights and political rights), liberties, income and wealth, the social bases of self-respect, etc. In the second edition of the Theory of Justice, primary goods are stated to be those that the citizens need as free people and as members of the society.
[9] Reviewing the UK edition of the book, Marina Vaizey praised it as a "quietly devastating takedown of capitalism," which offers "a highly readable, accessible – yet profound – examination of what kind of society might enable life at its most fulfilling," [10] while Critical Inquiry lauded the book as "a distinct and important ...
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Positive liberty is the possession of the power and resources to act in the context of the structural limitations of the broader society which impacts a person's ability to act, as opposed to negative liberty, which is freedom from external restraint on one's actions. [1] [2]
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) is a book by Barrington Moore Jr.. The work studied the roots of democratic, fascist and communist regimes in different societies, looking especially at the ways in which industrialization and the pre-existing agrarian regimes interacted to produce those different political outcomes.