Books by Lars Bo Kaspersen

Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature of the process. Through empirical studies focusing primarily on Denmark and covering the period from 1849 to the present day, it analyses the manner in which civil society has been practised and transformed over time. Presenting a new theoretical framework informed by a relational and processual perspective, the book sheds new light on familiar questions pertaining to civil society, the production of its boundaries and spaces of action, and the means by which these spaces can become causal factors. A fresh intervention in the study of a concept that has been central in defining ideas of solidarity and the common good, and to which researchers and politicians look for solutions to the great challenges of our time, Civil Society: Between Concepts and Empirical Grounds will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics, history and philosophy with interests in civil society.

Anthony Giddens is one of the world's prominent and prolific sociologists, and yet his ideas often prove difficult for the beginning student of sociology. This title provides an introduction to the work of Giddens, including the major part of his sociological and social theoretical project.

"Staten siger altid: L'état, c'est moi", skriver Niklas Luhmann.Dermed antydes en opfattelse af staten som et selvrefererende og selv-reproducerende system. Spørgsmålet er imidlertid: hvor kommer påvirkningerne af staters udvikling fra? - fra staten selv, fra andre stater og eksterne relationer, fra det omgivende samfund og interne sociale relationer eller er det noget helt fjerde?Staten, det er ... viser i et bredt perspektiv tendenserne i stats- og politikforskningen inden for marxisme, neo-marxisme og diskursanalyse, funktionalisme, neo-funktionalisme og post-strukturalisme, historisk sociologi samt international politik.Bogen er en bred præsentation af såvel angelsaksiske som kontinentaleuropæiske traditioner inden for stats- og politikforskningen. De enkelte bidrag er skrevet af danske human- og samfundsvidenskabelige forskere samt de udenlandske sociologiprofessorer Michael Mann og Bob Jessop.Staten, det er ... henvender sig til historie-, politologi- og sociologistuderende samt studerende fra andre samfundsvidenskabelige fag.