Beyond Individualism: How Social Demands of the New Identity Groups Challenge Am

Description: Beyond Individualism by Michael J. Piore Michael Piore develops a new social theory that balances individual preferences against the claims and responsibilities of the community. By explaining the role of groups in economic and social life, this theory makes sense of a host of perplexing social phenomena and policy issues. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Reagan and Bush years have left us with a troublesome dilemma: how to balance our budget deficit against our social deficit. This book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of economic crisis and constraint, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending on our nations neglected poor, infirm, and disadvantaged, old and young. Michael Piores ambitious response is to develop a new social theory that balances individual preferences against the claims and responsibilities of the community. By explaining the role of groups in economic and social life, this theory makes sense of a host of perplexing social phenomena and policy issues, from equal employment opportunity to international competitiveness to the decline of organized labor, from multicultural education to health insurance to the underclass.Piore traces our difficulties in addressing these issues to the limits of liberal social theory, particularly its sharp distinctions between individuality and community. He offers an alternative view of individuality as emerging through the discussions and debates conducted among a communitys members. These discussions, Piore suggests, have turned inward, away from the borderlands where social groups and economic organizations meet-and therein lies the crux of some of the countrys deepest political and economic problems. His book points beyond the liberal conception of politics as a negotiation among competing interests and of policymaking as technical decisionmaking. Instead, it prescribes a politics focused on the process of discussion and debate itself, a politics that enlarges the borderlands by broadening the range of people who talk to one another and the range of topics they address. Author Biography Michael J. Piore is David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Table of Contents The social deficit and the new identity groups; politics and policy; economic constraints and social demands; a cognitive approach to economics; an interpretative approach to cognition; the American repertoire; towards a politics of common understanding. Review Piores new book may be brief, its arguments compressed, but it provocatively combines two sizable ambitions: to serve as a theoretical orientation to identify identity-based movements and to address their weaknesses… He makes many valuable arguments along the way, raising considerably the level of discussion in a territory that, for several years now, has been marked by advocacy more than by critical reflection. -- Stephen Cole * Contemporary Sociology *Most books are lucky if they have one important, original idea. Beyond Individualism has many. It explores the political and economic challenge which the new identity groups in the United States have generated. Its synthesis of cognitive psychology and economic theory to resolve the conflict between individualism and collective community is brilliant. -- Alice H. Amsden, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBeyond Individualism is a Tocquevillian meditation on profound developments in American politics and society. Piore has a fresh and informed view of the dilemmas that the emergence of a politics of identity poses for a system that has evolved to cope with contradictions of class and region. This book will play a significant role in shaping our thinking on fundamental issues of economic policy and social justice in this new era. -- Duncan Foley, Barnard College of Columbia University Review Quote Piores new book may be brief, its arguments compressed, but it provocatively combines two sizable ambitions: to serve as a theoretical orientation to identify identity-based movements and to address their weaknesses...He makes many valuable arguments along the way, raising considerably the level of discussion in a territory that, for several years now, has been marked by advocacy more than by critical reflection. Details ISBN0674068971 Author Michael J. Piore Short Title BEYOND INDIVIDUALISM Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674068971 ISBN-13 9780674068971 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 1995 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle How Social Demands of the New Identity Groups Challenge American Political and Economic Life Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Illustrations index Residence US DOI 10.1604/9780674068971 UK Release Date 1995-04-18 AU Release Date 1995-03-01 NZ Release Date 1995-03-01 Pages 220 DEWEY 361.60973 Audience Undergraduate Publication Date 1995-03-19 US Release Date 1995-03-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:17980062;

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