A Critical Dictionary of Sociology

Raymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

452 Seiten

1989
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-01745-9 (ISBN)

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Showing little respect for intellectual fads and fashions, the authors submit key sociological concepts, theories and figures to a biting critical examination. In doing so they reaffirm that a non-marxist critique is still possible.

Unlike most other sociology or social science dictionaries, in this translation of the Critical Dictionary of Sociology, taken from the second French edition of the Dictionary and edited by the English sociologist Peter Hamilton, the critical value of this distinctive work is at last made available for a wider audience.

Each entry grapples directly with an issue, whether theoretical, epistemological, philosophical, political or empirical, and provides a strong statement of what the authors think about it. The discussions are considered but argumentative. By reaffirming that a non-marxist style of critique is still possible, Boudon and Bourricaud have presented a distinctive approach to the key issues which confront the societies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries.

For some this work will be a textbook, for others an indispensable sourcebook of sociological concepts, and for most a way of opening our eyes to new dimensions in our understanding of the great ideas and theories of sociology.

Raymond Boudon, Francois Bourricaud

Entries: Action; Action (Collective); Aggregation; Alienation; Anomie; Authority; Beliefs; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Causality; Charisma; Community; Comte, Auguste; Conformity and deviance; Crime; Culturalism and culture; Cycles; Democracy; Determinism; Development; Dialectic; Diffusion; Durkheim, Emile; Economics and Sociology; Egalitarianism; Elections; Elites; Experimentation; Family; Fuction; Functionalism; Groups; History and Sociology; Historicism; Ideologies; Knowledge; Machiavelli, Niccolo; Marx, Karl; Measurement; Methodology; Minorities; Needs; Objectivity; Power; Prediction; Professions; Prophetism; Rationality; Religion; Reproduction; Role; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Schumpeter, Joseph; Social Change; Social Control; Social Mobility; Sociobiology; Spencer, Herbert; State; Social Stratification; Structuralism; Structure; Suicide; Social symbolism; System; Teleology; Theory; de Tocqueville; Utilitarianism; Utopia; Weber, Max Thematic Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.1989
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-01745-9 / 0415017459
ISBN-13	978-0-415-01745-9 / 9780415017459
Zustand	Neuware