Politics and Social Change; Orissa in 1959

Bailey, F.G.

University of California Press

Mothers in Poverty: A Study of Fatherless Families

Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages themselves, that the poor seek out public housing and public assistance because they prefer such dependency, or that husbandless mothers all have lower educational goals for their children than do married mothers. Beginning with major theoretical issues, Professor Kriesberg developed specific hypotheses about the life of the poor and the culture of poverty; the hypotheses were tested with data from a study of families in and around four public housing projects in Syracuse.  Issues discussed in the book include the social worlds of the housing projects and the relations between the tenants and the residents of surrounding neighborhoods; the recruitment and selection of families into public housing; and the alternatives the female heads of families face in obtaining money for their families. Two chapters are devoted to an analysis of childrearing patterns that affect the child's later independence and educational achievements, focusing upon intergenerational processes and contemporary conditions such as housing, income, and family structure. Here the complex interplay of parental values, beliefs, and actual conduct is studied. Finally the sociological and policy implications of the findings are set forth with specific proposals concerning the reduction of poverty.  This in-depth analysis of poverty with its emphasis on fatherless families will be of interest to sociologists and social workers and those concerned with poverty, employment, women's rights, civil rights, education, and urban development.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

Politics and Social Change: Orissa in 1959

History

Asia

F. G. Bailey's political-anthropology text is reissued here with a postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in "exotic" and "developed" societies. In Bailey's analysis, Swat Pathan chiefs, cosa nostra gangsters, General de Gaulle, and the Untouchables in a rural Indian village (for example) are shown employing similar strategies, both effective and ineffective, to win and hold followers while eroding the support of their opponents. Provocative and insightful. Stratagems and Spoils provides a conceptual toolkit for analyzing, in any culture, the rules that regulate political contests and that determine who will win and who will lose.

Strategems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics

Blackwell Pub.

F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in exotic” and developed” societies. In Bailey's analysis, Swat Pathan chiefs, cosa nostra gangsters, General de Gaulle, and the Untouchables in a rural Indian village (for example) are shown employing similar strategies, both effective and ineffective, to win and hold followers while eroding the support of their opponents. Provocative and insightful, Stratagems and Spoils provides a conceptual toolkit for analyzing, in any culture, the rules that regulate political contests and determine who will win and who will lose.

Stratagems and spoils: A social anthropology of politics (Pavilion series)

Blackwell

Gifts and poisons: The politics of reputation; (Pavilion series, social anthropology)

Debate and compromise;: The politics of innovation, (Pavilion series: social anthropology)

Philosophy

The Tactical Uses of Passion: An Essay on Power, Reason, and Reality

The display of passion is an essential and widely used tool of rhetoric in Western culture, passion is opposed to reason , and reason gives us access to reality, in the exercise of government, politicians must transcend reality and address the nonreasoning side of human nature - feelings and sentiments. F. G. Bailey offers an inquiry into the complex interplay between emotions and intellect by examining the political use of rhetoric in small groups. Bailey first asks how displays of passion - anger, grief, hilarity - are interpreted and how they are used to exert power over people. The inquiry moves from primitive debates in which emotions are displayed involuntarily to the most sophisticated levels of debate where passion is employed deliberately and artfully, in the concluding part of the book, he uses the narratives of several arguments - parliamentary debates in India, a squabble in California city council, and the (fictional) meeting of a government committee in London - to infer some tunes for winning of losing arguments by the use passionate appeal. The paradox that emerges is that though reason is upheld as the superior mode of debate, it must ultimately be trumpred by emotion, It is from this paradox that the underlying theme of the book is drawn the capacity of reason to help us understand and therefore manage the world around us is limited indeed. The Tactical Uses of Passion will be invaluable to anthropologists, political scientists, students of public administration and of rhetoric, and anyone interested in the psychology of politics.

Cornell Univ Pr

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