Rules and Laws in Sociology
Rules and Laws in Sociology

Author: Robert Brown

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-18

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1000995542

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Originally published in 1973, this book examines the difficulties which sociologists have in providing useful scientific definitions of terms like ‘prejudice’ and ‘discrimination’. The author argues that such notions are essentially dependent on the social policy adopted, and that their common misuse by sociologists reflects a deeper confusion – that between the sociologist’s search for social rules and regularities, and their search for social laws. The book clarifies the complex and important relationships between a scientific interest in the rule-oriented behaviour of people and a scientific interest in social laws about that behaviour. It explains how and why so many sociological inquiries lead to the discovery of mere social practices rather than social laws.

The Cultural Bond
The Cultural Bond

Author: J.A. Mangan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1135024375

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The contributors to this volume examine the aspects of the cultural associations, symbolic interpretations and emotional significance of the idea of empire and, to some extent, with the post-imperial consequences. Collectively and cumulatively, their view is that sport was an important instrument of imperial cultural association and subsequent cultural change, promoting at various times and in various places imperial unity, national identity, social reform, recreational development and post-imperial goodwill.