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UNINA9910809035603321 |
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Horowitz Irving Louis |
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The decomposition of sociology / / Irving Louis Horowitz |
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New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994 |
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©1994 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-972931-X |
1-280-52767-6 |
1-4294-0600-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Sociology - Study and teaching - United States |
Sociology - United States - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Contents; Introduction; I: The Decomposition of Sociology; 1. The Decomposition of Sociology; 2. Disenthralling Sociology; 3. Sociology and Subjectivity; 4. Fascism, Communism, and Social Theory; 5. From Socialism to Sociology; 6. Scientific Access and Political Constraints; 7. Public Choice and the Sociological Imagination; 8. Social Contexts and Cultural Canons; II: The Reconstruction of Social Science; 9. Reconstructing the Social Sciences; 10. Human Life, Political Domination, and Social Science; 11. Policy Research in a Post-Sociological Environment; 12. Prediction and Paradox in Society |
13. Freedom, Planning, and the Moral Order14. Social Disputations and Moral Implications; 15. Social Science and the Great Tradition; 16. Social Science as the Third Culture; Notes; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z |
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Sociology, writes Irving Louis Horowitz, has changed from a central discipline of the social sciences to an ideological outpost of political extremism. As a result, the field is in crisis. Some departments have been shut down, others cut back, research programs have dried up, and the growth ofprofessional organizations and student enrollments |
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have been either curbed or atrophied. In The Decomposition of Sociology, Professor Horowitz, for four decades a leading social scientist, offers a frank and full account of the maelstrom engulfing this field. Horowitz pulls no punches in this provocative |
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