This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities.
Every size and type of human collective involve co-operation among members and competition with other groups. The two most recent trends in human relations – individualism and economic globalisation – have contributed to authoritarianism in politics and inequality among citizens. This book analyses how collective action might offset the most destructive consequences for well-being of these two tendencies. It explores these manifestations of collective action and their impact on social relations and social policies in the developed world. Further, the volume sets out a programme for more progressive and egalitarian future for global populations.
Engaging, accessible and transdisciplinary, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and public policy, sociology, social psychology, social policy and social work, as well as political philosophy, political economy and migration studies.
Author(s): Bill Jordan
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 144
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Mass Protests, Authoritarian Responses
Conclusions
References
Chapter 2: The History and Dynamics of Collective Action: Crisis and Transformation
Example: The Labuschagne Family
The Transnational Mobility of Culture
The Dominance of Contract
Culture and Services
Conclusions
References
Chapter 3: Relationships: The Dynamics of Feeling
Conclusions
References
Chapter 4: Couples and Families
Receiving Denied Feelings
Homes for Families
Sleep Deprivation
Conclusions
References
Chapter 5: Well-being and Social Value
A Challenge to Economic Individualism
Social Value in Relationships
Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: Civic Relationships and Civil Society
The Dynamics of Feeling in and Between Large Groups
Conclusions
References
Chapter 7: Globalisation
The New International Order
Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: Conflict and Coercion
Contest and Conflict
The Rise in Prison Populations
Coercion through the Benefits System
Conclusions
References
Chapter 9: A New Direction?
The Topicality of the UBI Debate
Conclusions
References
Chapter 10: The Revival of Nationalism
Historical Perspectives
The Emergence of States
Conclusions
References
Chapter 11: The State
Power, Paternalism and Militarism
Another Shift
References
Chapter 12: Mobility and Migration
The Dynamics of Mobility and Growth
Public Goods and Public Choice
Conclusions
References
Chapter 13: Extremism, Political and Religious
The Caliphate against the State
Religious Immigrants, Secular Host Nations
Conclusions
References
Chapter 14: Nations and Sustainability
The Policies of Western Nations
Valuing Natural Resources
Conclusions
References
Chapter 15: A New Cold War?
The Origins of the Freeze
Conclusions
References
Chapter 16: A New Basis for Citizenship
Social Credit
Windfall Wealth, Inequality and the UBI
Theoretical Justifications
Conclusions
References
Chapter 17: Conclusions
References
Index
