ISBN:
9780415017459
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (453 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version A Critical Dictionary of Sociology
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF SOCIOLOGY; Copyright; CONTENTS; EDITOR'S FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION; 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; Élite(s); Experimentation; Family; Function; Functionalism; Groups; Historicism; History and Sociology; Ideologies
Description / Table of Contents:
KnowledgeMachiavelli, Niccolò; Marx, Karl; Measurement; Methodology; Minorities; Needs; Objectivity; Power; Prediction; Professions; Prophetism; Rationality; Religion; Reproduction; Role; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Schumpeter, Joseph Alois; Social Change; Social Control; Social Mobility; Social Stratification; Social Symbolism; Socialization; Sociobiology; Spencer, Herbert; State, The; Status; Structuralism; Structure; Suicide; System; Teleology; Theory; Tocqueville, Alexis de; Utilitarianism; Utopia; Weber, Max; Thematic Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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