The Military Factor in Social Change Vol. 1Transaction Publishers |
Índice
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Armies Societies and Total War | 71 |
The State as Revolution | 117 |
The End of History? | 153 |
The Widening Circle | 195 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 245 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
activities administrative allegiance army Attika authority autonomous become behaviors and beliefs centralized government century citizens civil colonial compact affiliations conflict conscription corporate group crisis-inducing events cultural custom defense dominant duties economic effect emergence Émile Durkheim equality existence external force foreign freedom freestanding hierarchies functions guild household human idea identity indi individual rights institutions integrity intermediate entities kinship society leaders lives loyalty mandataries mass mass media means membership ment military monism Niccolò Machiavelli notables officials organization pact peace phratri phyle political society population prescriptive law privileges provincial society provincial to political Prussia religious responsibility revolution role ruling circle sense Sicilians Sicily social enclosures social order sovereign sovereignty Stand society status structure struggle subsidiary groups symbols tend territorial tion total war town traditional transformation transition from provincial undermined unity vidual village violence war band warrior chief wars
Passagens conhecidas
Página 52 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void ; and therefore in 8 E 330 ab Thomas Tregor's case on the statutes of W.
Página 100 - ; and, secondly, unwillingness to see the supreme theatre of human strenuousness closed, and the splendid military aptitudes of men doomed to keep always in a state of latency and never show themselves in action. These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected. One cannot meet them effectively by mere counterinsistency on war's expensiveness and horror. The horror makes the thrill; and when the question...
Página 100 - If we speak of the fear of emancipation from the fear regime, we put the whole situation into a single phrase; fear regarding ourselves now taking the place of the ancient fear of the enemy. Turn the fear over as I will in my mind, it all seems to lead back to two unwillingnesses of the imagination, one...
Página 14 - The fully developed bureaucratic mechanism compares with other organizations exactly as does the machine with the nonmechanical modes of production. Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of the files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs — these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration, and especially in its monocratic form.
Página 10 - Ultimately, one can define the modern state sociologically only in terms of the specific means peculiar to it, as to every political association, namely, the use of physical force. "Every state is founded on force," said Trotsky at Brest-Litovsk.
Página 37 - The executive is the active power in the state, the asking and the proposing power. The representative assembly is the consenting power, the petitioning, the approving and the criticizing, the accepting and the refusing power. The two powers are necessary if there is to be order and freedom. But each must be true to its own nature, each limiting and complementing the other.