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Horowitz Irving Louis
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Titolo: |
The decomposition of sociology / / Irving Louis Horowitz
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Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994 |
©1994 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina: | 301.0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Sociology - Study and teaching - United States |
Sociology - United States - History | |
Note generali: | Includes indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The decomposition of sociology ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-972931-X |
1-280-52767-6 | |
1-4294-0600-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910809035603321 |
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