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Category : Social change
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Transactions of the Third World Congress of Sociology
Author: The First New Nation
Author: Seymour Martin LipsetPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412836840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The United States was the first major colony to revolt successfully against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first "new nation." To see how, in the course of American history, its values took shape in institutions may help us to understand some of the problems faced by the new nations emerging today on the world scene. In The First New Nation, two broad themes occupy Seymour Martin Lipset's attention: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent to which the American experience was representative or exceptional. The volume is divided into three parts, each of which deals with the role of values in a nation's evolution, but each approaches this role from a different perspective. Part 1, "America as a New Nation," compares early America with today's emerging nations to discover problems common to them as new nations, and analyzes some of the consequences of a revolutionary birth for the creation of a national character and style. Part 2, "Stability in the Midst of Change," traces how values derived from America's revolutionary origins have continued to influence the form and substance of American institutions. Lipset concentrates on American history in later periods, selecting for discussion as critical cases religious institutions and trade unions. Part 3, "Democracy in Comparative Perspective," attempts to show by comparative analysis some ways through which a nation's values determine its political evolution. It compares political development in several modern industrialized democracies, including the United States, touching upon value patterns, value differences, party systems, and the bases of social cleavage.
Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions
Author: Percy Stafford AllenPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions: Section V. Religions of India and Iran. Section VI. Religions of the Greeks and Romans. Section VII. Religions of the Germans, Celts, and Slavs. Section VIII. The Christian religion. Section IX. Method and scope of the history of religions
Author: Theories of the Labor Movement
Author: Simeon LarsonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814318164
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Respecting both the history a labor theories and the variety of theoretical points of view concerning the labor movement, this collection of readings includes selections by Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, William Haywood, Georges Sorel, Stanley Aronowitz, John R. Commons, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Thorstein Veblen, Henry Simons, and John Kenneth Galbraith, among others. Intending this as a text for classroom use, Larson and Nissen have arranged the readings according to the social role assigned to the labor movement by each theory. The text's major divisions consider the labor movement as an agent of revolution, as a business institution, as an agent of industrial reform, as a psychological reaction to industrialism, as a moral force, as a destructive monopoly, and as a subordinate mechanism in pluralist industrial society. Such groupings allow for ready comparison of divergent views of the origins, development, and future of the labor movement.
Class
Author: John ScottPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415132978
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society
Author: Ralf DahrendorfPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000532631
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Originally published in England in 1959, this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory, the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena. The author carries out a full critique of Marx in the light of history and modern sociology and discusses the theories of class-conflict of James Burnham, Fritz Croner and Karl Renner.
The Oversocialized Conception of Man
Author: Dennis H. WrongPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351303384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The chapters in this volume represent some of Dennis Wrong's best and most enduring essays. Initially published as Skeptical Sociology, this collection displays his ability to write compellingly for general intellectual audiences as well as for academic sociologists. The book is divided into sections that represent Wrong's major areas of interest and investigation: "Human Nature and the Perspective of Sociology," "Social Stratification and Inequality," and "Power and Politics." Each section is preceded by a short introduction that places the articles in context and elaborates and often sheds new light on the contents. The essays in the first section were written with polemical intent, directed against the assumptions of academic sociology that prevailed in an earlier period. Part two calls attention to the neglect by functionalists of power, group conflict, and historical change; Wrong shows that failure to consider them made functional theories of stratification especially vulnerable. The third section is more heterogeneous in subject and theme than the others; all the essays in it touch in some way on power or politics. Included in this volume is Wrong's celebrated and much-quoted article "The Oversocialized Conception of Man in Modern Sociology." Other significant essays reveal the author's views on many timely topics of sociological concern, such as the quests for "community" and for "identity"; the Freudian, Marxian, and Weberian heritages in sociology; social class in America; meritocracy; a theory of democratic politics; humanist, positivist, and functionalist perspectives; and the sociology of the future. The Oversocialized Conception of Man is an indispensable volume for sociologists, political theorists, and historians. Dennis H. Wrong is emeritus professor of sociology at New York University. He is the author of The Problem of Order, Population and Society, Class Fertility Trends in Western Nations, Power: Its Forms, Bases, and Uses (also published by Transaction), and The Modern Condition (forthcoming).
Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities
Author: Shmuel N. EisenstadtPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004531491
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
These essays illuminate the processes of world history, modern civlizations and modes globalization from a comparative sociological point of view. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129931).
Social Stratification, Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, Second Edition
Author: David GruskyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000240010
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The volume offers essential reading for undergraduates who need an introduction to the field, for graduate students who wish to broaden their understanding of stratification research, and for advanced scholars who seek a basic reference guide. Although most of the selections are middle-range theoretical pieces suitable for introductory courses, the anthology also includes advanced contributions on the cutting edge of research. The editor outlines a modified study plan for undergraduate students requiring a basic introduction to the field.