Essays in the Theory of Society

ISBN-13: 9781032196732 / Miękka / 2023 / 312 str.

Ralf Dahrendorf

Opis

Originally published in 1968, these ten essays by one of Europe’s leading sociological theorists deal with important issues on the borderline between sociology and social philosophy and demonstrate the author’s deep insight into history and political analysis.

Recenzje

‘Provocative, informative, lucid, pleasurable – one could go on multiplying complimentary adjectives about these essays. They show sociology to be a discipline in which the literate and human values still flourish.’ Alasdair Macintyre, The Guardian.

Spis treści

1. Values and Social Science

The Value Dispute in Perspective

2. Homo Sociologicus

On the History, Significance and Limits of the Category of Social Role

3. Sociology and Human Nature

A Postscript to Homo Sociologicus

4. Out of Utopia

Toward A Reorientation of Sociological Analysis

5. In Praise of Thrasymachus
6. On the Origin of Inequality Among Men
7. Liberty and Equality

Reflections of a Sociologists on a Classical Theme of Politics

8. Market and Plan

Two Types of Rationality

9. Uncertainty, Science and Democracy
10. Sociology and the Sociologist

On the Problem of Theory and Practice

O autorze

Ralf Dahrendorf was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. He was director of the LSE and Research Professor at the Berlin Social Science Research Center.