In order to bring sociology to the recognition of a social world of contingencies and of an obdurate but protean reality that changes shapes as humans define it, Stanford Lyman re-introduces the concept of civilization, employing it as both an intellectual resource and a proper topic for sociological investigations.
The fifteen essays in this collection by one of America s premier sociologists reflect Lyman s concern with all that is meant by the term "civilization." Primarily inspired by his attempts to synthesize the ideas of Erving Goffman, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Herbert Blumer,...
In order to bring sociology to the recognition of a social world of contingencies and of an obdurate but protean reality that changes shapes as hum...
Robert E. Park has long been recognized as one of the most influential thinkers in early American sociology, yet virtually all of his works appearing before 1913 were published in popular magazines and were dismissed as nonsociological muckraking. In Militarism, Imperialism, and Racial Accommodation: An Analysis and Interpretation of the Early Writings of Robert E. Park, Stanford M. Lyman examines and reprints many of these little-known works, including Park s essays on German military organization, hisexposes of the atrocities committed by Belgium s Leopold II in the Congo State, his...
Robert E. Park has long been recognized as one of the most influential thinkers in early American sociology, yet virtually all of his works appeari...
Focusing on the Cold War years, thismonograph examines the processes, problems, and policies through which the Federal Republic of Germany was formed and admitted into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The author compares the situation of Weimar Germany during its short-lived postwar decade with that of the Federal Republic by applying geopolitical concepts and theory, illustrating Germany s territorial uniqueness and how that special aspect of its place on the European continent in?uenced the nation s diplomacy in both eras.
During the late 1940s and the 1950s, the problem...
Focusing on the Cold War years, thismonograph examines the processes, problems, and policies through which the Federal Republic of Germany was form...
In the fifth volume in the Studies in American Sociology Series, Stanford M. Lyman offers commentaries on and critiques of postmodernism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction, posing questions concerning theoretical and epistemological problems arising from what appears to be a nouvelle vague.
Postmodernism, poststructuralism, and deconstructionism are interrelated aspects of the newest theoretical development in sociology and the social sciences. This new wave of thought challenges virtually all paradigms currently in use. In this, his fifth volume in the Studies in American Sociology...
In the fifth volume in the Studies in American Sociology Series, Stanford M. Lyman offers commentaries on and critiques of postmodernism, poststruc...
If the postmodern condition is a dystopia characterized by alienation and despair, argues distinguished sociologist Stanford Lyman, postmodern epistemologies compound the problem by denigrating Enlightenment philosophies that still offer agency and hope to those who struggle to be free. In this, his sixth volume in the Studies in American Sociology series, Lyman examines this contradiction as it has shaped American discourses on race and community, asking why Gunnar Myrdal's "American Dilemma" is still unresolved; how Chinese workers have fared in the labor movement and in labor history; what...
If the postmodern condition is a dystopia characterized by alienation and despair, argues distinguished sociologist Stanford Lyman, postmodern epistem...
