Philip Selznick

The Organizational Weapon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'The Organizational Weapon' is a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually cooptation of organizations from within. The study applies its theory to communist techniques but its analysis and insights have, over the years, become extremely useful in perceiving and combating such methods in jihadist cells, terrorist organizations, and political groups of many varieties, not only from the Left. Its continuing relevance and utility have been exemplified in how it has influenced, and been cited by, many current writers on how extremist and politically astute groups recruit and infiltrate more benign organizations and make them tools of further expansion of power and action. The book is also considered excellent social science and history, analyzing an important moment in U.S. history when trade organizations, community groups, and the like became affected by Russian encroachment and Marxist influence. Its insights, from one of the country's most recognized social scientists, have stood the test of time.

The new digital reprint edition from Quid Pro Books features an extensive and substantive 2014 Foreword by Martin Krygier, a senior professor of law and social theory at the law school of University of New South Wales, in Australia, and also adjunct professor at Australian National University.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: quidpro
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610272759
• Artikelnr.: 72380769

Autorenporträt

Philip Selznick (1919-2010) taught generations of students as Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding chair of the Center for the Study of Law and Society and of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program in the School of Law at Berkeley. His books include The Organizational Weapon; TVA and the Grass Roots; Law, Society, and Industrial Justice; Law and Society in Transition (with Philippe Nonet); The Moral Commonwealth; The Communitarian Persuasion; and A Humanist Science.