title: Identity and Control: How Social Formations Emerge - Second Edition
author:  Harrison C. White 
description: "Praise for the original edition: "[In this book] White has managed to cram a lifetime of singularly deep thinking about the social order that makes the best start yet on augmenting the economic understanding of man.""<b>---David Warsh, <i>Boston Globe</i></b><br /><br />"Praise for the original edition: "This work is unique in that it presents a fully formed structural theory of human behavior and organization from the ground up, including seminal terms and the directions in which future research should proceed.""<b>---C. A. Pressler, <i>Choice</i></b><br /><br />"Praise for the original edition: "[This book] deserves to be widely read and discussed. White attempts nothing less than a comprehensive theoretical synthesis of social scientific ideas.""<b>---John Scott, <i>British Journal of Sociology</i></b>
zlib_text: On Populist Reason 
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  ERNESTO lAClAU 
  VERSO 
  London • New York 
  
  First published by Verso 2005 
  © Ernesto Laclau 2005 
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  The moral rights of the author have been asserted 
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  To Chantal, 
  after 30 years 
  
  Preface 
  The main issue addressed in this book is the nature and logics of the 
  formation of collective identities. My whole approach has grown out of 
  a basic dissatisfaction with sociological perspectives which either consid­
  ered the grou