Anthony M. Orum is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. John G. Dale is Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.

• PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; POWER AND AUTHORITY; INSTITUTIONS, NETWORKS, AND CULTURE; VISIONS OF SOCIETIES AND POLITICS: MARX, WEBER, DURKHEIM, DE TOQUEVILLE, AND POLANYI; PEDAGOGICAL GUIDELINES; CHAPTER 2. ON THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS: KARL MARX AND THE NEO MARXISTS; KARL MARX ON THE ECONOMY AND POLITICS; THE NEO-MARXISTS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 3. ON STATES AND SOCIETIES: MAX WEBER AND THE NEO-WEBERIANS; MAX WEBER ON STATES AND POLITICS; THE NEO-WEBERIANS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICS: EMILE DURKHEIM AND ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE; EMILE DURKHEIM ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICS; ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICS; THE NEO-CONSENSUALISTS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 5: ON THE POLITICS, LAW, AND MORALITY OF MARKETS; KARL POLANYI; FUTURE PROSPECTS; NOTES; CHAPTER 6: BASIC FORMS OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY; BASIC TYPES OF POLITICAL RULE: THE CLASSICAL GREEK CONCEPTIONS; TYPES OF POLITICAL RULE IN THE MODERN WORLD; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 7: POWER AND AUTHORITY IN AMERICA; PROLOGUE; THE POWER OF THE AMERICAN STATE; THE POWER OF BUSINESS AND CORPORATIONS; EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY IN MODERN AMERICA; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 8: POWER AND AUTHORITY IN THE METROPOLIS; THE METROPOLIS IN AMERICAN HISTORY; THE POLITICS OF THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CITY; INTERPRETING THE CITY; REMAKING THE AMERICAN CITY; CITIES AND THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 9: POLITICAL PARTIES; THE NATURE OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES; THE BIRTH OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES; VARIATIONS IN MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES: HIGHLIGHTS OF CURRENT AND EARLY PATTERNS; THE POWER AND POLITICS OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES; THE PAST AND FUTURE OF MODERN POLITICAL PARTIES: THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES; NOTES; CHAPTER 10: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: BASIC PERSPECTIVES; THE NATURE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR VS. COLLECTIVE ACTION; NEW PARADIGMS FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; MOBILIZATION, AND FRAMING; BEYOND DEMOCRATIC ELITISM AND DEMOCRATIC FUNDAMENTALISM: THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AND PRESSURES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE; THE POLITICS OF INFLUENCE; CULTURE, STRUCTURE, STATES; NOTES; CHAPTER 11: TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND GLOBALIZATION; THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF GLOBALIZATION; THE FREE BURMA MOVEMENT AS TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT; NEW DIRECTIONS FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND RESEARCH; NOTES; CHAPTER 12: THE MASS MEDIA; HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE MASS MEDIA IN AMERICA; THE MASS MEDIA AS A VEHICLE OF CORPORATE CAPITALISM; THE MASS MEDIA AND THEIR INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY; THE MEDIA AND THE BUSINESS OF MAKING THE NEWS; THE PUBLIC AND ITS VIEW AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THE MEDIA; THE FUTURE OF THE NEWS AND THE NEWS OF THE FUTURE; NOTES; CHAPTER 13: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY; DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND PARTICIPATION; A CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRATIC THEORY: RATIONAL CHOICE; RATIONAL CHOICE AND COLLECTIVE ACTION; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN EVERYDAY SOCIAL LIFE; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL CLEAVAGES; PROMOTING POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE PURSUIT OF DEMOCRACY; NOTES

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