Public sociology and civil society
Subtitle: governance, politics, and power
By: Patricia Mooney Nickel
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781594519765
Subjects: Applied sociology; Methodology; Philosophy; Sociology; Civil society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p .143-160) and index.
Table of contents: title: Public sociology and civil society in the context of governance; title: Public sociology : locating the argument; title: Public sociology as knowledge, politics, and portrayal; title: Civil society and the origins of the expansion of governing; title: The transformation of the state thesis; title: Governing texts; title: NGOs, the State, and governance as rites of rule; title: Beyond knowledge production as the reproduction of the present.