Embattled Reason: Volume 1, Essays on Social Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781138509481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 324 str.

Reinhard Bendix

Opis

Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole.

Spis treści

Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Conditions of Knowledge, Introduction, 1. Social Science and the Image of Man, 2. The Age of Ideology, Persistent and C hanging, 3. Sociology and the Distrust of Reason, 4. Science and the Purposes of Knowledge, Part II: Theoretical Perspectives, Introduction, 5. Images of Society and Problems of Concept Formation in Sociology (with Bennett Berger), 6. Social Theory and the Break with Tradition, 7. Culture, Social Structure, and Change, 8. Reflections on Modern Western States and Civil Societies (with John Bendix), 9. Changing Patterns of Authority in Relation to Industrialization and Social Protest, Part III: Studies of Modernization, Introduction, 10. Industrialization, Ideologies, and Social Structure, 11. Social Stratification and the Political Community, 12. Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered, 13. The Special Position of Europe, 14. The Intellectual’s Role in the Modern World, Index

O autorze

REINHARD BENDIX