scholarly journals The Potential for Community and Complementary Currencies (CCs) to Enhance Human Aspects of Economic Exchange

Digithum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Reppas ◽  
Glenn W. Muschert
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Economic Exchange ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Human Aspects ◽  
Complementary Currencies ◽  
Complementary Currency

This article explores the potential for Community and Complementary Currency (CC) use to enhance human aspects of economic exchange. As far back as Aristotle, social thinkers have expressed concern that the pursuit of profit for its own sake leads to the dehumanization of those participating in economic relations, a concern which was echoed in the work of foundational thinkers in the modern Social Sciences, for example Karl Marx and Max Weber. This article probes the scope of CC use to alleviate such dehumanization, situated within this broader social context of contemporary global Capitalism. Beginning with a review of the types of CCs, this paper considers the objectives and goals of CCs worldwide. Indeed, there is room for optimism that CCs may ease negative aspects of traditional financial exchange by serving those on the fringes of and/or excluded from formal economies, and without necessarily competing with public or private traditional banking institutions. The paper concludes with reflections on the key aspects of CCs aiding their successful implementation and sustainable use. Although this paper is conceptual in nature, it offers a meta-analysis from many case studies of CCs, and suggests that CCs can be an effective tool for lessening some of the harmful impacts of the dominant economic relations found in today’s globalized world.

Perspectivas Interdisciplinaridades e Linguagem nas Ciências Humanas

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Alzira Lobo de Arruda Campos
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Wilhelm Dilthey ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Fernand Braudel

As ciências humanas discutiram a questão da interdisciplinaridade ao longo do século XX. Mas, já no século anterior, figuras notáveis, como Wilhelm Dilthey e Karl Marx, questionavam-se sobre os paradigmas monistas da explicação e da compreensão. Interrogação reproduzida, entre muitos, por Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Fernand Braudel, Michel Serres. Em Educação, o grupo de Doutorado em Ciências da Educação, de Paris VIII, há 30 anos adotou a multirreferencialidade como metodologia hegemônica.

scholarly journals Revisiting Bureaucratic Dysfunction: The Role of Bureaucracy in Democratization

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Im Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Missing Link

While many studies have focused on the link between economics and democracy in exploring the strategies adopted by developing countries, they have tended to overlook the role of bureaucracy in democratization. This study seeks the missing link between bureaucracy and democratization. What are the conditions necessary for bureaucracy to facilitate the democratization process of a country? This article begins by briefly reviewing the bureaucracy literature from Max Weber and Karl Marx and then argues that despite its shortcomings, bureaucracy in its Weberian form can facilitate the political democratization of a developmental state. This study concludes that although bureaucracy is often regarded as dysfunctional, it can be instrumental in the democratization process in the context of the developmental state.

scholarly journals Liberdade, liberalismo e intervenção do estado: perspectivas teóricas de autores modernos

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-380
Author(s):  
Sávia Lorena Barreto Carvalho De Sousa
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Friedrich Hayek

Este ensaio teórico de base analítica visa entender criticamente aspectos do liberalismo e da intervenção do Estado. Com o objetivo central de resgatar questões trabalhadas por autores modernos da Ciência Política a respeito das formas que uma sociedade pode ser mais justa e combater as desigualdades no mundo, o questionamento principal se desdobra em reflexões sobre como conciliar a liberdade com a atuação dos mercados e a respeito dos limites da democracia neste contexto, discutidos em uma problematização de pensadores como Adam Smith, Alex de Tocqueville, Stuart Mill, Max Weber e Karl Marx em diálogo com teóricos mais contemporâneos, como Friedrich Hayek, John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas e Anthony Giddens. Conclui-se a urgência de um processo de fortalecimento dos Parlamentos, com políticas públicas de inclusão social que permitam uma sociedade mais igualitária e uma educação que abra portas para formar um cidadão crítico, que compreenda as diferenças dentro do campo do respeito ao Outro e às liberdades de escolha. A proposta de contínuo aprimoramento das instituições e juízos através de sistemas de consultas, reformas e revisões jurídicas e políticas, é cada vez mais necessária em um mundo de constantes mudanças.

Syrian - Lebanese economic relations 1958 – 2000

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Economic Exchange ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
Main Engine ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Method

In the midst of dangerous circumstances and events and the thorny relations between Syria and Lebanon ,the issue of Syrian – Lebanese economic relations 1958 – 2000 came to confirm the depth of the relationship between the two counties and indicate the political tensions and the shadows it casts on economic relations. Perhaps the Syrian – Lebanese relations are among the strangest relations that exist between two countries or Even between two peoples , although it brings together a lot of special circumstances that are difficult to find in other countries , any event , even if it is fleeting , can be exploited in a way that harms the essence of the relationship in which interests may intersect between two ordinary countries that do not have any connection of historical weight or A specific geography , the Syrian – Lebanese relationship is , by virtue of history , concurrent with the emergence of the two states as political entities . This reason and others prompted me to choose this topic , which embodies the volume of trade and economic exchange between the two countries and clearly embodies the repercussions of the relationship , which passes from one period to another in a state of ebb and flow . This study sheds light on the economic relations between the two countries , although it is difficult to ignore the impact of the political conditions on them , as they are the main engine , and the decline in economic relations is only a reaction to the crisis policy in many cases . in writing this research , the researcher used the descriptive method of history , and he used an important number of sources that enriched the subject , such as the Lebanese – Syrian relations of the authors Antoine AL-Nashef and Khalil AL-Hindi , as well as the Lebanese – Syrian relations1985 -1943 issued by the Lebanese Documentation and Research Center and last but not least l hope this study will be successful in terms of providing information and facts to the lraqi offices and contributing to their enrichment and providing assistance to the lraqi researcher .

Grundlegungen der Soziologie

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schluchter
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Emile Durkheim

Die Alternativen soziologischen Denkens Wolfgang Schluchter betrachtet zunächst drei konkurrierende Forschungsprogramme, die er als soziologischen Hegelianismus (Karl Marx), soziologischen Kantianismus (Émile Durkheim) und kantianisierende Soziologie (Max Weber) bezeichnet. In seiner Theoriegeschichte in systematischer Absicht geht er dann sowohl der systemtheoretischen Wende als auch der sprachtheoretischen Wende nach. Erstmals sind beide Teile dieses Grundlagenwerks in einem Band erhältlich.

Augusto Comte revisitado: Positivismo, sociologia e intervenção social

2021 ◽  
pp. e021015
Author(s):  
Renato Cancian
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Emile Durkheim

Nas ciências sociais uma obra clássica é uma referência para as gerações futuras de especialistas que usufruem de suas contribuições teóricas, conceituais, analíticas e metodológicas no desenvolvimento de novas pesquisas e permanente aperfeiçoamento do conhecimento. Entre os clássicos da sociologia, em particular os teóricos da fase de surgimento desta ciência social, o pensamento sociológico de Augusto Comte é considerado de menor relevância comparado a Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim e Max Weber. Todavia, ao analisar a trajetória intelectual de Augusto Comte este artigo sustenta que suas teorias e análises foram fundamentais para a constituição e o desenvolvimento ulterior da sociologia.  

Theory in Weberian Marxism: Patterns of Critical Social Theory in Lukács and Habermas

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry F. Dahms
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories

For Weberian Marxists, the social theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx are complementary contributions to the analysis of modern capitalist society. Combining Weber's theory of rationalization with Marx's critique of commodity fetishism to develop his own critique of reification, Georg Lukács contended that the combination of Marx's and Weber's social theories is essential to envisioning socially transformative modes of praxis in advanced capitalist society. By comparing Lukács ‘s theory of reification with Habermas's theory of communicative action as two theories in the tradition of Weberian Marxism, I show how the prevailing mode of “doing theory” has shifted from Marx's critique of economic determinism to Weber's idea of the inner logic of social value spheres. Today, Weberian Marxism can make an important contribution to theoretical sociology by reconstituting itself as a framework for critically examining prevailing societal definitions of the rationalization imperatives specific to purposive-rational social value spheres (the economy, the administrative state, etc.). In a second step, Weberian Marxists would explore how these value spheres relate to each other and to value spheres that are open to the type of communicative rationalization characteristic of the lifeworld level of social organization.

scholarly journals OS CLÁSSICOS DA SOCIOLOGIA E NÓS: REFLEXÃO SOBRE TRÊS LIVROS PARADIDÁTICOS

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ramos Shiota
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Emile Durkheim

Os clássicos da sociologia variam conforme cada país, eles são os autores que gozam de status superior, artífices de práticas exemplares de pesquisa, que levantaram problemas e propuseram soluções teóricas que ainda elucidam aspectos das sociedades contemporâneas. Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim e Max Weber se tornaram clássicos no Brasil, entre outras coisas, devido ao esforço de Florestan Fernandes na década de 1950, quando sistematizou a contribuição de cada um desses autores para uma teoria da investigação sociológica. A recepção desses clássicos no país não perdeu de vista os problemas da sociedade brasileira, que tradicionalmente esteve voltada para explicar o país. Por isso, determinadas leituras foram rotinizadas, criando versões próprias desses autores clássicos. Dessa perspectiva, esse texto faz uma reflexão sobre três livros paradidáticos da coleção “pontos de referência” da Editora Vozes, escritos por especialistas franceses: A sociologia de Marx, de Jean-Pierre Durand; A sociologia de Durkheim, de Philippe Steiner; e A sociologia de Weber, de Catherine Colliot- Thélène.

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