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Author: Werner Stark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1135035105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1998, The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.
Author: Werner Stark
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1135035091
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1998, The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.
Author: Hans Joas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0691150842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile focusing on social thought, this book draws on many disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, and political science. It demonstrates the profound difficulties social thinkers - including liberals, socialists, and those intellectuals who could be regarded as the sociologists - had in coming to terms with the phenomenon of war.
Author: Silvana Greco
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2022-01-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 3110758865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes, for the first time, an in-depth analysis of the Philosophie sociale, published in Paris in 1793 by Moses Dobruska (1753-1794). Dobruska was a businessman, scholar, and social philosopher, born into a Jewish family in Moravia, who converted to Catholicism, gained wide recognition at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and then emigrated to France to join the French Revolution. Dobruska, who took on the name Junius Frey during his Parisian sojourn, barely survived his book. Accused of conspiring on behalf of foreign powers, he was guillotined on April 5, 1794, at the height of The Terror, on the same day as Georges Jacques Danton. From Dobruska's ideas, which were widely used between the late eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century without attribution to their author, emerge some of the key concepts of the social sciences as we know them today. An enthusiastic and unfortunate revolutionary and sometimes a brilliant theorist, Moses Dobruska deserves a role of his own in the history of sociology. Click here for a video book presentation by the author.
Author: Eugene Halton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780226314624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe must, he argues, frame our questions in a way which encompasses both enchantment and critical reason, and he offers an outline here for doing so. A passionate plea for a fundamental reexamination of the entrenched assumptions of the modern era, this book deals with issues of vital concern to modern societies and should be read by scholars across disciplines.
Author: Daniel Chernilo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-01-31
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1139619462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter several decades in which it became a prime target for critique, universalism remains one of the most important issues in social and political thought. Daniel Chernilo reassesses social theory's universalistic orientation and explains its origins in natural law theory, using an impressive array of classical and contemporary sources that include, among others, Habermas, Leo Strauss, Weber, Marx, Hegel, Rousseau and Hobbes. The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory challenges previous accounts of the rise of social theory, recovers a strong idea of humanity, and revisits conventional arguments on sociology's relationship to modernity, the enlightenment and natural law. It reconnects social theory to its scientific and philosophical roots, its descriptive and normative tasks and its historical and systematic planes. Chernilo's defense of universalism for contemporary social theory will surely engage students of sociology, political theory and moral philosophy alike.
Author: Werner Stark
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415178181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald N. Levine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1351489429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this unprecedented collection, Donald N. Levine rejuvenates the field of social theory in the face of lagging institutional support. The work canvasses the universe of types of theory work in sociology and offers probing examples from his array of scholarly investigations.Social Theory as a Vocation throws fresh light on the texts of classic authors (Comte, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Park, Parsons, and Merton). Ranging widely, its substantive chapters deal with the sociology of strangers and the somatic dimensions of social conflict; the social functions of ambiguity and the use of metaphors in science; contemporary dilemmas of Ethiopian society; logical tensions in the ideas of freedom and reason; and the meaning of nationhood in our global era. The book includes Levine's transformative analysis of the field of Ethiopian studies, and his acclaimed interpretation of the discontents of modernity. It makes the bold move to merge philosophically informed analyses with empirical work.Finally, Levine focuses on what he views as the contemporary crisis of liberal education, and offers suggestions for ways to stimulate new efforts in teaching and learning to do social theory. This book is an integral contribution to social science collections and should be read by all interested in the future of the social sciences.
Author: Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987-07-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0226774848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstructing Social Theories presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract—or applied a priori to a problem—but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This work was awarded the Sorokin prize by the American Sociological Association as the book that made an outstanding contribution to the progress of sociology in 1970.
Author: Steven G Medema
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-08-16
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1134665466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of economic thought has always attracted some of the brightest minds in the discipline. These chroniclers of development have helped form our current views, and it is no surprise that many among them have been at the forefront of new movements in the history of ideas. This notable collection summarizes the work of these key historians of economics and attempts to quantify their impact. Some of the writers covered, such as Friedrich Hayek and Joan Robinson, are already assured of their place among the greatest economists of the twentieth century, but the collection also stresses the influence of those still active in shaping our perceptions - including Mark Blaug, Samuel Hollander and Donald Winch. Written by an impressive roster of contributors, many of whom are themselves well-known in the history of economic thought, this key book features writings from John Creedy, Roger Blackhouse and Neil De Marchi, as well as the editors of the collection as a whole, Warren J. Samuels and Steven Medema.
