Social theory as politics in knowledge / edited by Jennifer M. Lehmann.

Includes bibliographical references.

This volume discusses, and manifests, three interrelated perspectives in social theory. First, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is theoretical: there are alternative perspectives, or theories, about any phenomenon. Second, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge is political: these alternative perspectives are contested, as they are related to different groups with different interests. Third, that all knowledge, including scientific knowledge, is social: alternative perspectives have alternative social causes and alternative social effects.

Cover -- front cover -- table of contents -- Editorial Board -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- From A Marxist Native Daughter -- Introduction Notes -- Part I: Before and Beneath other Conflicts: Fourth World Social Theory -- About that Bering Strait Land Bridge ... A Study in the Falsity of ''Scientific Truth'' -- Education as Cultural Imperialism -- Origins of a Scientific Myth -- The Enforcement of Orthodoxy -- A Few Problems of Chronology -- Paleoenvironmental Considerations -- Recent Revisions -- On the Matter of mtDNA -- That Man from Kennewick -- Lost Tribes (Again), and Sunken Continents -- The View from Native North America -- Toward a New Synthesis of Understanding -- Chapter 1 Notes -- Part II: A Contemporary Argument ''For Social Theory'' -- For Social Theory: Alvin Gouldner's Last Project and Beyond -- Normative Reflexivity and Social Rupture: Social Theory Contra Technocracy -- Between Science and Politics: Social Theory as Refuge and Mediator -- From Philosophy to Social Theory: Gouldner's Return to Critical Theory -- An End to Ideology?: Electronic Media and One-Dimensional Culture -- The Carrier of Critical Rationality?: The ''New Class'' and ''Culture of Critical Discourse'' -- After Absolutism: Ideology as Proto-Social Theory -- Social Theory Beyond Politics: Uncertainty, Reflexivity, and the Sociological Moment -- The Community of Social Theorists: Post-Traditional Voice of the Sacred? -- Nightmare Marxism: Gouldner's Tragic Side -- Promethean Theorists/Spectator Theories: Gouldner's Incomplete Pragmatic Turn -- After Gouldner: Cultural Fragmentation and The Future of Social Theory -- Chapter 2 Notes -- Chapter 2 References -- Part III: Contemporary Conflicts over Social Policy Argued in Social Theory -- The Mayberry Machiavellians In Power: A Critical Analysis of the Bush Administration through a Synthesis of Machiavelli, Goffman, and Foucault -- Introduction -- Exercising and Retaining Power Requires Strategies to Structure Relationships -- The Bush Administration as Machiavellian Dramaturgists -- Matrixes of Power, Knowledge, and Violence Subject Minds and Bodies to Techniques of Population Control -- The Bush Administration and Techniques of Population Control -- Power Relations use Moral Discourse and Produce Moral Subjects -- The Bush Administration's use of Moral Discourse and Production of Moral Subjects -- Chapter 3 Discussion -- Chapter 3 Notes -- Chapter 3 References -- Globalization or Hyper-Alienation? Critiques of Traditional Marxism as Arguments for Basic income -- Social Policy in the Modern Age: In the Interest of Maintaining Order -- The Culmination of Modern Trends: Globalization AS Hyper-Alienation -- Reformist Social Policies and the Welfare State: A Dead End? -- Captives of the Glass Casing: Hyper-Alienation as Normalcy -- Beyond the Welfare State: ''Universal Basic Income'' As a Superior Social Policy? -- Reinterpreting Marx: Two Critiques of Traditional Marxism -- Alienation Omnipresent: Critical Theory, Basic Income, and Sociol.

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