ISBN:
9781594513718
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (266 p)
Series Statement:
Sociological Imagination
Parallel Title:
Print version Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society : Reconstructing Sociology's Fundamental Assumptions
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I Introduction; Social Science and Metaphysics; The Web and Part/Whole Approach to the Scientific Method; The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society; The Plan of This Book; Part II Physical and Biological Structures; 1 Isolation versus Interaction; Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions; Buckley's Sociology and Modern Systems Theory; Sommer's Tight Spaces: Hard Architechture and How to Humanize It; Some Implications; 2 Outward versus Inward-Outward Perception
Description / Table of Contents:
Kelly's The Psychology of Personal ConstructsGouldner's The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology; Berger's Ways of Seeing; Some Implications; Part III Personality Structure; 3 "Head": Stratified versus Interactive Beliefs; Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Levin's Experiment on Prejudice; Merton's "The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action"; Some Implications; 4 "Heart": Alienation versus Expressive Orientation; Marx's 1844 Essay on Alienation; Simmel's "Metropolis and Mental Life"; Horney's The Neurotic Personality of Our Time; Some Implications
Description / Table of Contents:
5 "Hand": Addiction versus PragmatismHesse's The Glass Bead Game; Kaplan's The New World of Philosophy; Knottnerus on Concentration Camps; Some Implications; Part IV Social Structures; 6 "Head": Scientistic versus Scientific Method; Peirce on the Scientific Method; Nietzsche's The Gay Science; Mills's The Sociological Imagination; Some Implications; 7 "Heart": Anomie versus Cultural Value Fulfillment; Durkheim's Suicide; Williams's American Society; Chua's World on Fire; Some Implications; 8 "Hand": Social Stratification versus Egalitarian Relationships; Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Description / Table of Contents:
Goffman's AsylumsIllich's Deschooling Society; Some Implications; Part V The Situation; 9 "Head": Labeling versus Reflexive Behavior; Hoyle's The Black Cloud; Scheff's Bloody Revenge: Emotions, Nationalism, and War; Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed; Some Implications; 10 "Heart": Negative versus Positive Reinforcement; Van Vogt's The Players of Null-A; Vidich's and Bensman's Small Town in Mass Society; Busch's "A Tentative Guide to Constructing the Future"; Some Implications; 11 "Hand": Conforming Behavior versus Praxis
Description / Table of Contents:
Greenstein's "Modifying Beliefs and Behavior through Self-Confrontation"Bondurant on Gandhi in Conquest of Violence; Lundberg's Can Science Save Us?; Some Implications; Part VI Conclusions and Implications; 12 Connecting the Dots; Conclusions; Some Implications; References; Index; About the Authors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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