In defence of sociology: essays, interpretations and rejoinders
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- 9788131607398
- G4I6 301.0954
Item type | Current library | Item location | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Vikram Sarabhai Library | Rack 8-A / Slot 254 (0 Floor, West Wing) | Non-fiction | General Stacks | 301.0954 G4I6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 193855 |
Table of Contents:
1. In Defence of Sociology
2. Living in a Post-Traditional Society
3. What is Social Science?
4. Functionalism: Apres la Lutte
5. 'Britishness' and the Social Sciences
6. The Future of Anthropology
7. Four Myths in the History of Social Thought
8. Auguste Comte and Positivism
9. The Suicide Problem in French Sociology
10. Reason Without Revolution?: Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action
11. Literature and Society: Raymond Williams
12. T. H. Marshall, the State and Democracy
13. Brave New World: The New Context of Politics
14. The Labour Party and British Politics
Is there a future for sociology? To many, sociology seems to have lost its way. Born of the ideas of Auguste Comte in the nineteenth century, sociology established itself as ‘the science of modernity’, linked to a progressive view of history. Yet today the idea of progress has more or less collapsed; with its demise, some say, sociological thought has moved to the margins of contemporary intellectual culture.
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