Studies in social and political theory
β Scribed by Anthony Giddens
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Lld
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 210
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Some Issues in the Social Sciences Today
Positivism and Its Critics
Max Weber on Facts and Values
Functionalism: apres la lutte
Notes on the theory of structuration
Habermas's critique ofhermeneutics
Hermeneutics, ethnomethodologyand problems of interpretativeanalysis
Max Weber oninterpretative sociology
Marx, Weber and the developmentof capitalism
Marx and Weber:problems of class structure
Four myths in the history of socialthought
Durkheim's political sociology
The 'individual' in the writings ofEmile Durkheim
The 'individual' in the writings ofEmile Durkheim
A theory of suicide
The suicide problem inFrench sociology
'Power' in the writings of TalcottParsons
Remarks on the theory of power
References
Acknowledgements
Index
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