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Author |
: Reinhard Bendix |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2020-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000675535 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100067553X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Embattled Reason by : Reinhard Bendix
Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole.
Author |
: Reinhard Bendix |
Publisher |
: Transaction Pub |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0887381979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780887381973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Embattled Reason by : Reinhard Bendix
Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole. The articles are grouped under three headings. In "Conditions of Knowledge" the author is concerned with the value assumptions basic to the social sciences. Under "Theoretical Perspectives" the author presents the guiding considerations of his own work in a continuing dialogue with such thinkers as Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. In the last section, "Studies of Modernization," Bendix takes up problems involved in an analysis of social change though a reexamination of evolutionist assumptions. Reinhard Bendix is professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Author |
: Reinhard Bendix |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 1412822432 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781412822435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Embattled Reason by : Reinhard Bendix
Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole. The articles are grouped under three headings. In "Conditions of Knowledge" the author is concerned with the value assumptions basic to the social sciences. Under "Theoretical Perspectives" the author presents the guiding considerations of his own work in a continuing dialogue with such thinkers as Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. In the last section, "Studies of Modernization," Bendix takes up problems involved in an analysis of social change though a reexamination of evolutionist assumptions. Reinhard Bendix is professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Author |
: Reinhard Bendix |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0887381103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780887381102 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Embattled Reason by : Reinhard Bendix
Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole. The articles are grouped under three headings. In "Conditions of Knowledge" the author is concerned with the value assumptions basic to the social sciences. Under "Theoretical Perspectives" the author presents the guiding considerations of his own work in a continuing dialogue with such thinkers as Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. In the last section, "Studies of Modernization," Bendix takes up problems involved in an analysis of social change though a reexamination of evolutionist assumptions.
Author |
: Theda Skocpol |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 1984-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521297249 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521297240 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vision and Method in Historical Sociology by : Theda Skocpol
Examines the careers and contributions of nine major scholars who have been influential in the development of historical sociology. Covers the work of Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Barrington Moore, Jr.
Author |
: Stephen Kalberg |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409432234 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1409432238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Max Weber's Comparative-historical Sociology Today by : Stephen Kalberg
Bringing together the author's major scholarly work on Weber over the last thirty years, offering a rich examination of the major themes in his sociology, alongside a reconstruction of his mode of analysis and application of his approach, this book will appeal to scholars around the world with interests in social theory, German and American societies, cultural sociology, political sociology, the sociology of knowledge, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of civilizations.
Author |
: Julie Nelson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2021-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315287515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131528751X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Property to the People: The Struggle for Radical Economic Reform in Russia by : Julie Nelson
This text sets Russia's current economic transformation in the context of economic and political change, and provides an overview of issues central to the economic reform debate in Russia. It also highlights the human dimension of large-scale economic change through case studies and interviews.
Author |
: Lewis A. Coser |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1988-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1412816084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781412816083 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Handful of Thistles by : Lewis A. Coser
This selection of essays by one of the most eminent sociologists of our time represents a selection of his analytical and moral or political writing over a lifetime of work. The book is organized thematically rather than chronologièally, and is divided into four parts: paè¨ers on the uses of sociology, on ideas and ideologies, on sociological analysis, and a final section entitled professing sociology. While the collection demonè²trates maturation, the author's central preoccupations have remained constant over the years. A reflective autoèiographical introduction places the auè² hors choice of problems and the development of his ideas in the social and cultural context of his life and his work. He confesses to .having experiènced, in his life and his work, being a "stranger within the gate," and believes that this sense of marginality has both informed and influenced his thinking. And he sees the social conflicts that shook the world during his young adulthood as having creative as well as destructive consequences.
Author |
: Gilbert Burgh |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2021-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000474183 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000474186 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty by : Gilbert Burgh
The strength of democracy lies in its ability to self-correct, to solve problems and adapt to new challenges. However, increased volatility, resulting from multiple crises on multiple fronts – humanitarian, financial, and environmental – is testing this ability. By offering a new framework for democratic education, Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty begins a dialogue with education professionals towards the reconstruction of education and by extension our social, cultural and political institutions. This book is the first monograph on philosophy with children to focus on democratic education. The book examines the ways in which education can either perpetuate or disrupt harmful social and political practices and narratives at the classroom level. It is a rethinking of civics and citizenship education as place-responsive learning aimed at understanding and improving human-environment relations to not only face an uncertain world, but also to face the inevitable challenges of democratic disagreement beyond merely promoting pluralism, tolerance and agreement. When viewed as a way of life democracy becomes both a goal and a teaching method for developing civic literacy to enable students to articulate and apprehend more than just the predominant political narrative, but to reshape it. This book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, political science, education, democratic theory, civics and citizenship studies, and peace education research.
Author |
: Gerda Lerner |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 1998-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190284107 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190284102 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why History Matters by : Gerda Lerner
"All human beings are practicing historians," writes Gerda Lerner. "We live our lives; we tell our stories. It is as natural as breathing." It is as important as breathing, too. History shapes our self-definition and our relationship to community; it locates us in time and place and helps to give meaning to our lives. History can be the vital thread that holds a nation together, as demonstrated most strikingly in the case of Jewish history. Conversely, for women, who have lived in a world in which they apparently had no history, its absence can be devastating. In Why History Matters, Lerner brings together her thinking and research of the last sixteen years, combining personal reminiscences with innovative theory that illuminate the importance of history and the vital role women have played in it. Why History Matters contains some of the most significant thinking and writing on history that Lerner has done in her entire career--a summation of her life and work. The chapters are divided into three sections, each widely different from the others, each revelatory of Lerner as a woman and a feminist. We read first of Lerner's coming to consciousness as a Jewish woman. There are moving accounts of her early life as a refugee in America, her return to Austria fifty years after fleeing the Nazis (to discover a nation remarkable both for the absence of Jews and for the anti-Semitism just below the surface), her slow assimilation into American life, and her decision to be a historian. If the first section is personal, the second focuses on more professional concerns. Included here is a fascinating essay on nonviolent resistance, tracing the idea from the Quakers (such as Mary Dyer), to abolitionists such as Theodore Dwight Weld (the "most mobbed man" in America), to Thoreau's essay Civil Disobedience, then across the sea to Tolstoy and Gandhi, before finally returning to America during the civil rights movement of the 1950s. There are insightful essays on "American Values" and on the tremendous advances women have made in the twentieth century, as well as Lerner's presidential address to the Organization of American Historians, which outlines the contributions of women to the field of history and the growing importance of women as a subject of history. The highlight of the final section of the book is Lerner's bold and innovative look at the issues of class and race as they relate to women, an essay that distills her thinking on these difficult subjects and offers a coherent conceptual framework that will prove of lasting interest to historians and intellectuals. A major figure in women's studies and long-term activist for women's issues, a founding member of NOW and a past president of the Organization of American Historians, Gerda Lerner is a pioneer in the field of Women's History and one of its leading practitioners. Why History Matters is the summation of the work and thinking of this distinguished historian.