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- catalog abstract "The Last Half-Century represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship by Morris Janowitz. In this comprehensive and systematic analysis of the major trends in American society during the past fifty years, he probes the weakening of popular party affiliations and the increased inability of elected representatives to rule. Centering his work on the crucial concept of social control, Janowitz orders and assesses a vast amount of empirical research to clarify the failure of basic social institutions to resolve our chronic conflicts. For Janowitz, social control denotes a society's capacity to regulate itself within a moral framework that transcends simple self-interest. He poses urgent questions: Why has social control been so drastically weakened in our advanced industrial society? And what strategies can we use to strengthen it again? The explanation rests in part on the changes in social structure which make it more and more complicated for citizens to calculate their political self-interest. At the same time, complex economic and defense problems also strain an already overburdened legislative system, making effective, responsive political rule increasingly difficult. Janowitz concludes by assessing the response of the social sciences to the pressing problem of social control and asserts that new forms of citizen participation in the government must be found.--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b1380044.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1978.".
- catalog date "1978".
- catalog date "c1978.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1978.".
- catalog description "I: Frame of Reference -- II: Master Trends, 1920-1976 -- III: The System of Social Organization -- IV: Rationality, Institution Building, and Social Control.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "The Last Half-Century represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship by Morris Janowitz. In this comprehensive and systematic analysis of the major trends in American society during the past fifty years, he probes the weakening of popular party affiliations and the increased inability of elected representatives to rule. Centering his work on the crucial concept of social control, Janowitz orders and assesses a vast amount of empirical research to clarify the failure of basic social institutions to resolve our chronic conflicts. For Janowitz, social control denotes a society's capacity to regulate itself within a moral framework that transcends simple self-interest. He poses urgent questions: Why has social control been so drastically weakened in our advanced industrial society? And what strategies can we use to strengthen it again? The explanation rests in part on the changes in social structure which make it more and more complicated for citizens to calculate their political self-interest. At the same time, complex economic and defense problems also strain an already overburdened legislative system, making effective, responsive political rule increasingly difficult. Janowitz concludes by assessing the response of the social sciences to the pressing problem of social control and asserts that new forms of citizen participation in the government must be found.--Publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 582 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Last half-century.".
- catalog identifier "0226393062".
- catalog isFormatOf "Last half-century.".
- catalog issued "1978".
- catalog issued "c1978.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog relation "Last half-century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 20th century.".
- catalog subject "309.1/73/09".
- catalog subject "HN57 .J2479".
- catalog subject "Social change.".
- catalog subject "Social institutions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I: Frame of Reference -- II: Master Trends, 1920-1976 -- III: The System of Social Organization -- IV: Rationality, Institution Building, and Social Control.".
- catalog title "The last half-century : societal change and politics in America / Morris Janowitz.".
- catalog type "text".