1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000490360403321

Autore

Fitchen, Franklin C.

Titolo

Electronic integrated circuits and systems / Franklin C. Fitchen ; contributors Virgil G. ellerbruch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : Van Nostrand, c1970

Descrizione fisica

420 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Collana

Microelectronics series

Disciplina

621.381'5

Locazione

DINEL

Collocazione

10 E I 227

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004269260403321

Autore

Lepre, Stefano

Titolo

Le difficoltà dell'assistenza : le opere pie in Italia fra '800 e '900 / Stefano Lepre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Bulzoni, c1988

Descrizione fisica

317 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Storia e documenti ; 13

Disciplina

361.76320945

Locazione

FLFBC

DECTS

DECSE

Collocazione

361.763 LEP 1

N3.71

SE019.08.16-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450259003321

Autore

Tucker Kenneth H.

Titolo

Anthony Giddens and modern social theory / / Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Sage, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-86601-1

1-280-14924-8

9786610149247

0-203-98061-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

301.01

301.092

301/.01

306.092

Soggetti

Sociology - Methodology

Postmodernism

Social structure

Sociology - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; WHY GIDDENS AND NOT HABERMAS?; ON THE STYLE AND ARGUMENTATION OF THIS BOOK; PARTING THOUGHTS; 2 ANTHONY GIDDENS ; GIDDENS AND THE END OF SOCIOLOGY; CRITICISMS OF GIDDENS; GIDDENS AND POSTMODERNISM; AN OVERVIEW OF GIDDENS'S MAJOR CRITICS; SUMMARY, AND THE PARAMETERS OF THE PRESENT CRITIQUE; 3 THE NEW VERSUS THE OLD RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD; GROUNDING HERMENEUTICS; SCHOPENHAUER'S CRITIQUE OF KANT; SOCIOLOGY AS THE SCIENCE OF DISCOVERIES; THE NORMAL VERSUS THE PATHOLOGICAL

THE ONE, WELL-DESIGNED EXPERIMENTCONCLUSIONS; 4 THE ROLE OF DESIRE IN AGENCY AND STRUCTURE; DENATURING THE HUMAN AGENT;



FAITH AND TRUST; SEARCHING FOR THE HEART OF SOCIOLOGY; HOW GIDDENS ATTEMPTS TO ACCOUNT FOR EMOTION IN HUMAN HISTORY; THE PARADOX OF AGENCY LEADING TO LESS AGENCY; DURKHEIM'S DEPICTION OF FAITH IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL LIFE; THE EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS OF SOCIAL STRUCTURE; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; 5 GIDDENS'S POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY; GIDDENS'S CRITIQUE OF MARX; ELABORATING GIDDENS'S POSITION ON NATIONALISM AND THE NATION-STATE; GIDDENS ON POST-TRADITION

GIDDENS'S VERSION OF THE END OF HISTORYTHE MEANINGS OF BOSNIA; FROM BOSNIA TO RUSSIA; CONCLUSIONS; 6 GIDDENS'S MODERNISM LITE; THE MUTUAL UNAWARENESS OF GIDDENS AND BAUDRILLARD; POSTMODERNITY TRANSFORMED INTO MODERNITY LITE; THE ROLE OF THE INFORMATION MEDIA; CONCLUSIONS; 7 UNLIMITED AGENCY AS THE NEW ANOMIE; PARTIAL AGENCY; MENTAL ILLNESS AS A PROBLEM WITH AGENCY; CAN EXCESSIVE AGENCY LEAD TO ANOMIE?; LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A RECONTEXTUALIZED READING OF DURKHEIM'S CONCEPT OF ANOMIE; ANOMIE AS SECULAR SIN; CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS; 8 CONCLUSIONS; MIXING METAPHORS

CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGISTS AS THE LEISURE CLASSSUMMARY; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Anthony Giddens is arguably the world's leading sociologist. In this controversial contribution to the Giddens debate, Stjepan Mestrovic takes up and criticizes the major themes of his work - particularly the concept of 'high modernity' as opposed to 'postmodernity' and his attempted construction of a 'synthetic' tradition based on human agency and structure.<BR> Testing Giddens' theories against what is happening in the real world from genocide in Africa to near secession in Quebec, Mestrovic discerns in the construction of synthetic traditions not the promise of freedom held out by Giddens b