CONTENTS
| Introduction | |
| OWNERSHIP, THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD AND THE APPARENT PAST | |
| Theoretical sociology and practice | 15 |
| The civil society as an Utopia and as sociological theory | 16 |
| The state versus malcontent and lyrical sociology | 22 |
| The nation and sociological understanding of ownership | 24 |
| The new labour, new intellectual property and sociological neo-classicism | 27 |
| The appropriation of old and new classic thought | 32 |
| References | 36 |
| Chapter1 | |
| THE ESTATES OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND STATE | |
| Hegel and sociological neo-classicism | 39 |
| Officials are neither servants of the state nor servants of the people | 48 |
| Die biirgliche Gesellschaft, the burgess society and civil society | 50 |
| Officials and great and small estates of burgess society and state | 52 |
| Officials, the middle estate and the new middle class | 57 |
| The concept of class as an expression of economic and civic freedom | 61 |
| Estates in the archaic and modern sense | 63 |
| Officialdom as an estate of educated persons | 65 |
| Truth as a professional skill | 66 |
| Ways of transforming the real state into the state of bad existence | 69 |
| Officials' and hired labour | 70 |
| Estate esteem of the officialdom | 74 |
| Officials estate and the privatisation of offices and public functions | 75 |
| The officialdom as an estate of the extra-class state | 76 |
| The knight-errant (fahrende Ritter) as a type of official | 81 |
| The lackey of state (Slaatsbediente) as a type of official | 82 |
| Officials and the people | 85 |
| Officials and public opinion | 86 |
| Is it possible to deceive the people? | 89 |
| The idea of officials' estate and the ideal type of bureaucracy | 90 |
| References | 92 |
| Chapter 2 | |
| SOCIOLOGY AND THE LAW ABOUT OBJECTS OF OWNERSHIP | |
| Ownership and civil society | 97 |
| Expropriation of sociology from theory of ownership | 98 |
| Property, power and freedom | 101 |
| A structural-historical ambiguity of the concept of ownership | 104 |
| Ownership relations, relations conditioned by ownership and relations significant for ownership | 104 |
| Ownership, practical doctrines and empirical sciences | 105 |
| When does ownership arise and exist? | 106 |
| The extra-juridical means of comprehending and regulating ownership | 107 |
| Causal sophistries in the theory of identification of economy and extra-economic fields of social life | 108 |
| Tangible and intangible things (res corporales - res incorporates) as thought fictions | 110 |
| The air, the light of the sun and other free goods and ownership | 112 |
| The means of production, pop-sociology and pop-economics | 113 |
| The intellectual means of production as objects of ownership | 114 |
| The intellectual means of material production versus the material means of intellectual production | 116 |
| Virtual reality, the intellectual means of production and the classical theory of truth | 117 |
| The intellectual means of labour organisation and ownership regulation and protection | 119 |
| Ownership and ergodynamis, dynamis of personality and the human body | 120 |
| Objects of ownership and deed | 122 |
| Money as an object of ownership | 123 |
| Objects of ownership in classic and influential, sociological and economic thought | 125 |
| Resources and human capital | 127 |
| Pierre Bourdieu’s reduction of the main objects of ownership to certain kinds of capital | 128 |
| The cultural capital versus ergodynamis and dynamis of personality. On economic reductionism | 130 |
| The social capital and the sophism of Abraham and Isaac | 134 |
| The political capital versus objects of state ownership | |
| Bourdieu's capitals and the transformation of particular concepts into total ones | 139 |
| The New Home Economics and intellectual economic imperialism | 142 |
| The Weberian objects of appropriation and ownership | 145 |
| Appropriation of labour positions and offices and ownership of basic production and labour agents | 146 |
| Appropriation of the material means of procurement and occupation and the enfranchisement of hired employees | 148 |
| Appropriation of managerial positions and objects of ownership | 149 |
| Appropriation of political and administrative power versus ownership relations and relations significant for ownership | 153 |
| References | 157 |
| Chapter3 | |
| JURIDICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL SUBJECTS OF OWNERSHIP | |
| Human individuals, legal persons, gods and sovereigns | 162 |
| Common property and property of concrete human individuals | 163 |
| Social division of labour and subjects of property. Direct manufacturers and direct producers of modern societies | 165 |
| Services and direct production. A concept of vocation | 168 |
| Ergodynamis and subjects of ownership | 171 |
| Formal and real skills. Professionals and bunglers | 174 |
| Subjects of ownership in creditor-debtor relations | 175 |
| Subjects of ownership in tenancy relations | 177 |
| Corporal and non-corporal state ownership. The sociological approach to tax problems. | 178 |
| Taxes and partially expropriating the proprietors of the material means of occupation and the hired labour classes and estates | 181 |
| Participation of concrete individuals in the ownership of national and local communities | 183 |
| State ownership and the ownership of the rulers and the ruled | 185 |
| The non-egalitarian coefficient of social-economic phenomena. The old against the young or the rich against the poor | 187 |
| Appropriation of the welfare state by the middle and upper classes | 188 |
| Formal-statistical and organic concepts of the class | 190 |
| Expropriation of the income middle class versus the expropriation of the organic classes and social estates from the participation in the welfare state ownership | 193 |
| The pre-Copemican way of thinking about subjects of ownership | 195 |
| Subsidies and subjects of national ownership | 197 |
| Domination of public ownership over private and personal types of ownership | 199 |
| Stock capital as a modern ownership of the material means of production. Managers and owners of big corporations | 200 |
| Real enfranchisement of workers and employees in modem corporations | 204 |
| Indicators of employees' co-ownership of corporation property | 205 |
| Office architecture, employees' co-ownership and expropriation | 208 |
| Lifelong employment, seniority wage and permanent class advancement | 210 |
| Enfranchisement of employees in the social market economy | 212 |
| Classes of employees - co-owners of the modem means of production versus classes of the typical hired labour. The contradiction of their interests | 213 |
| Formal socialism and beggarly common ownership | 216 |
| References | 221 |
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| Chapter 4 | |
| DONATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF OWNERSHIP | |
| The particular feature of ownership relationship. Ownership versus labour | 225 |
| The means of production and occupation as gifts of extra-human nature | 226 |
| Abstaining from production and work as a way to increase wealth | 228 |
| Gifts of modem and post-modem human nature | 229 |
| Less work but more wealth. The erroneous neo-Malthusian and the Rome Club's prognoses | 231 |
| The past generations and foreigners absent physically as members of every nation and producers of its wealth | 232 |
| The super-rich of America and the gifts of science | 233 |
| Labour as a gift of the employed people. The minimal wage and ownership | 235 |
| Not a working day, but a working day and night | 237 |
| Formal versus real taxpayers | 239 |
| Ways of their labour appropriation beneficial for workers and employees | 239 |
| Consumers surplus, worker's surplus, saver's surplus, superadditum of wealth | 241 |
| Ergodynamis and the donative comprehension of ownership. Common and private ownership of labour power | 242 |
| Gratis goods versus exploitation. Some critical remarks on current concepts of exploitation | 245 |
| The donative concept of ownership in social and juridical sciences | 246 |
| The utilitarian and dominative concepts of ownership | 247 |
| The Chicago Property Rights School, Fichte, Parsons and Smelser | 248 |
| References | 251 |
| Chapter 5 | |
| MICROSOCIOLOGY AND MACROSOCIOLOGY OF SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION | |
| Real socialism, formal socialism or state socialism? | 254 |
| “Class” as a category of social science, an element of practical doctrine, a razor in the hands of a madman and the means of coercion | 257 |
| The fate of extra-Marxist theories of class in formal socialism | 260 |
| Omnia pro tempore? | 263 |
| Class versus labour and ownership. Younger by age but older by thought | 264 |
| The relational nature of social differentiation categories | 266 |
| The ownership of ergodynamis (labour power), human capital and social differentiation | 268 |
| Orders of production and microclass. An organic concept of class | 270 |
| Macroclass and great property-labour dichotomies. When is a new class really a new class? | 272 |
| The heuristic and monorelational concept of class | 275 |
| Microsociology and macrosociology of social estate, quasi-class, quasi-estate and underclass | 277 |
| The collectivistic, antagonistic and economic-monadic concepts of class | 278 |
| Sorokin's concept of sociological neocolumbism | 282 |
| References | 286 |
| Chapter 6 | |
| CLASSES, SOCIAL ESTATES AND PARTIES IN THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS | |
| Demos versus idea – spectres | 291 |
| The archaic and modem concepts of the people and elite | 293 |
| The people versus the new and old Newspeak | 296 |
| Classes, estates and absent voters | 297 |
| Old schemes and the new order of labour and property | 303 |
| Peasants, farmers and the involuntary class-estate nature of the political parties | 307 |
| Workers and five types of the workers' parties | 311 |
| Entrepreneurs, the self-employed versus owners of capital and the demiurgic class | 318 |
| Intelligentsia versus the managerial, regulating and academically educated classes and estates | 320 |
| Mental employees without academic education versus the classes and estates of extra-worker, subordinated labour | 322 |
| The parties and the quasi-classes and quasi-estates of pensioners | 323 |
| Housewives. Labour as a social form versus the material-sensible content of labour | 326 |
| The unemployed and quasi-classes, quasi-estates and parties | 329 |
| The small is important | 331 |
| Adversaries and supporters of burgess society | 332 |
| Oligopoly and citizen discrimination | 336 |
| The people and the confessional and archnational parties | 339 |
| The elites, the people and post-war Poland | 342 |
| The attitudes of electorate towards the strong hand rule | 350 |
| Final remark | 352 |
| References | 353 |
| Index of names | 357 |
| Sociology, Civil Society and State (Summary) | 365 |