Constructing Social Reality by Michael Karlberg

Attention is also paid to the diversity of those voted for, to enrich the insight and perspective available to elected bodies. Within this system, every adult votes and has complete freedom of choice in voting for those they believe embody the requisite qualities and capacities of self-less, intelligent, and principled service to the common good. In addition, it is based on reconceptualization of the nature and function of power in human affairs.

In short, there is no competition of any kind. One of the distinguishing features of the system is that there are no nominations, campaigns, or parties. The worldwide Bahá’í community has constructed an integrated system for elected governing assemblies at the local, national, and international level. Though every aspect of Bahá’í governance is not transferable to the wider society, the Bahá’í system is one of many social innovations that we can examine for relevant insights. has been learning about aspects of global governance for over a century. An urgent read for those willing to think deeply about the challenges confronting us in these perplexing times and arise to new forms of constructive action.'The worldwide Bahá’í community. Far from leaving us hopeless in the face of such threats, he offers insights which make human oneness, and the spiritual and material prosperity of humankind, seem within reach. In this text, he systematically resolves key normative tensions in Western philosophy, supporting the kind of radical transformation of thought needed to bring today's society back from the existential threat of self-destruction. Penn, PhD, Author of Overcoming Violence Against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem (Rowman & Littlefield), and co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and Human Rights with Hoda Mahmoudi (Emerald Publishing) In Constructing Social Reality: An Inquiry into the Normative Foundations of Social Change, Michael Karlberg adroitly leads us to understand that true social change requires change in our ontological and epistemological assumptions, that is, change at the level of how we understand reality and how we understand knowledge. Indeed, students, scholars, and practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines will find in Constructing Social Reality many unique and refreshing insights that address the normative and epistemic debates that have eroded confidence in values-driven social action. He achieves this by describing - in lucid, systematic, and accessible ways - how confidence in our ability to perceive, evaluate, and act upon socially embedded truths and enduring collective values might be restored.

This, his most recent book, clears a discursive path out of the thick forest that has gathered in the fertile fields of social epistemology, normative values, and social change.

When the paradigm-shifting scholars of this age are remembered, Michael Karlberg will be among them.

Constructing Social Reality by Michael Karlberg