Industrialized animal agriculture reveals human-animal relations defined by routinized, institutionalized violence on a staggering scale. Despite greater public recognition of these issues, consumption meat and other products from industrially processed animals continues to rise globally. This article responds an ongoing need consider unexplored sites in research addressing challenges “meat cul...

Abstract In this chapter, I examine conceptions of social planning, the role and interrelations economic policy, part played by empirical sciences in public policy. illustrate experiences society looking at ideational discourses Finnish Social Policy Association during 1950s 1960s, distinguishing three distinct societal that range from conservative policies aversion to state intervention utopia...

The decline of utopia in some western intellectual environments has become an object of interest for scientists and essayists in these last few years. Yet, little has been done to analyze the common sense production of utopias or dystopias. This article will make use of the results of a statistical survey (n=2774) to describe what can be called, in reference to Wittgenstein’s philosophy, «the g...

Karl Mannheim’s orientations to time can be plotted between subjectivist and objectivist extremes. The latter corresponds to social engineering, while the former offers the context in which Mannheim uses Hobbes’s primaeval war to imagine the chaotic struggle over time that he hopes to escape. Mannheim’s distinctive achievement is ‘dynamic sociology’, an experimental approach marked by the recog...

The differing attitudes of Plato and Rousseau toward specialization and the division of labor color their views on who should formulate policy on political questions. In the theories of each thinker, the observations and evaluations made in such areas of social life as the production and exchange of services and material goods are carried over and applied to politics. In particular, the strikin...