Presenting a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life, this book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks.

Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory. They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to characterize Western society - are sharply contrasting systems regulating both the process of human developement and the historical evolution of whole societies.

This text traces the historical and cultural development of the Soviet Muslim population. Going back to the Mongol Empire and the Russian conquest of Muslim lands under the Tsars, it demonstrates how Soviet Islamic culture emerged. It also examines how Soviet Muslims interacted with the Muslim world abroad.

Tomlinson charters the route of British macroeconomic policy in the post-war era. He argues that the aims of macroeconomic policy haven't been constant; the emphasis has shifted from one item to another; and this uncertainty over objectives goes a long way to explaining why macroeconomics management hasn't been a success.

Outlining the main concerns of Max Weber's sociology with its focus on law, religion, politics and economic life, the authors stress the productive legacy of his thought in current areas of intellectual debate, most notably the crisis of Marxism and the rise of the New Right.

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic.

This title tells the story of the major discoveries which have been made and the attitude of the world at large to these discoveries during the ten decades since Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859.

This title presents a detailed confrontation between the Austrian school of economics and Austrian philosophy, especially the philosophy of the Brentano school. It contains a study of the roots of Austrian economics in the liberal political theory of the 19th-century Hapsburg empire.

First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic.

This text examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences. Beginning with a discussion of positivistic, hermeneutic, rationalist and realistic philosophies of science, it argues that realism is best able to furnish rational criteria for the choice and specification of social scientific concepts.