Bøger af Anders Sevelsted

Gennemrevideret og opdateret udgave af denne lærebogsklassiker, blandt andet med nye kapitler om Zygmunt Bauman og Ulrich Beck. Alle bibliografier er ajourført.

Sociologiens problemer – en grundbog leverer en pædagogisk indføring i sociologien og samfundets mest betydningsfulde problemfelter.Hvert kapitel tager fat i en central sociologisk problematik og udfolder herfra et overblik over de mest betydningsfulde teoriskoler og begreber, de definerende historiske og aktuelle udviklinger på området og de mest skelsættende empiriske studier og indsigter. Alt sammen med afsæt i danske samfundserfaringer og med udblik til den øvrige, globale verden. Bogen giver derfor anledning til at åbne vores forståelse af samfundet og dets problemer og udfordringer på nye og sociologisk kvalificerede måder.Mens der på dansk findes en række bøger, der introducerer til centrale sociologiske teorier og metoder, sætter denne grundbog sociologiens problemer i centrum såvel teoretisk som empirisk.Bogens bidragsydere udgøres af en vifte af kompetente sociologiske forskere fra hele landets universiteter og forskningsmiljøer. Bogen er redigeret af lektor i sociologi Anders Blok og af lektor i politisk sociologi Carsten Bagge Laustsen.

Bogen problematiserer en række dominerende forståelser og antagelser om civilsamfundet i en dansk kontekst og affyrer i en række kritiske kapitler eksplorative teser direkte mod civilsamfundsforskningen og civilsamfundsdebatterne. Gennem grundige historiske og sociologiske analyser bidrager bogen til ny og større viden om civilsamfundets historiske og aktuelle bidrag til samfundsudviklingen i Danmark, og det bliver synligt, at civilsamfundet op gennem historien har være en altafgørende dynamo i den danske samfundsudvikling – særligt i forbindelse med velfærdsstatens udvikling.Med grundighed og vovemod illustrerer bogens bidrag, hvordan civilsamfundsbegrebet kan bruges til at aflæse forskellige samfundsændringer over tid.Bogen består af bidrag fra en lang række eksperter inden for området og er redigeret af lektor Liv Egholm og professor Lars Bo Kaspersen, som begge er ansat på Department of Business Humanities and Law ved Copenhagen Business School.

This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new moral principles envisioned and practiced among movement participants, or the overall struggle over society's moral values that movements engage in. This is evident in movements emerging from recent interlinked crises: the crisis of human rights, the climate crisis, and the developing crisis of democracy. In analyzing these current events through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and empirical lenses, this book brings morality to the forefront of the discussion, allowing for a rethinking of its role.The book is divided into five parts. The first part introduces and explores the central concept of the book, outlining the dominant existing approaches to morality and ethics in the extant movement and civil society literature. The following three parts investigate morality in relation to topics and movements that are either prominent to contemporary politics or salient to the question of morality. In these empirically informed parts, the authors apply a diverse selection of methods spanning fieldwork, historiography, traditional and novel statistical analytical methods, and big data analysis to a diverse selection of data. Topics discussed include refugee solidarity movements, male privilege and anti-feminism movement, environmental and climate justice movements, and religious activism. The fifth and closing part of the book focuses on the more abstract theoretical question of the relationship between morality and ethics and activist practices and points to future research agendas. This book will be of general interest to students, scholars and academics within the disciplines of political sociology, -science and -anthropology and of particular interest to academics in the subfields of social movement and civil society studies.

This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new moral principles envisioned and practiced among movement participants, or the overall struggle over society¿s moral values that movements engage in. This is evident in movements emerging from recent interlinked crises: the crisis of human rights, the climate crisis, and the developing crisis of democracy. In analyzing these current events through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and empirical lenses, this book brings morality to the forefront of the discussion, allowing for a rethinking of its role.The book is divided into five parts. The first part introduces and explores the central concept of the book, outlining the dominant existing approaches to morality and ethics in the extant movement and civil society literature. The following three parts investigate morality in relation to topics and movements that are either prominent to contemporary politics or salient to the question of morality. In these empirically informed parts, the authors apply a diverse selection of methods spanning fieldwork, historiography, traditional and novel statistical analytical methods, and big data analysis to a diverse selection of data. Topics discussed include refugee solidarity movements, male privilege and anti-feminism movement, environmental and climate justice movements, and religious activism. The fifth and closing part of the book focuses on the more abstract theoretical question of the relationship between morality and ethics and activist practices and points to future research agendas. This book will be of general interest to students, scholars and academics within the disciplines of political sociology, -science and -anthropology and of particular interest to academics in the subfieldsof social movement and civil society studies.