Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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Physical description: 349 p.; 23 cm. Subjects: Social theory; Phenomenology Sociology; Philosophy Sociology; Sociology History; Sociology history; History; Sociology.

This is probably the most important work ever written by an American sociologist on the history of sociological thought. It sets forth the essential, constitutive intellectual elements of the sociological tradition that reaches from Tocqueville and Marx through Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel, down to contemporary thought. It also explores the relationship of this sociological tradition to the political ideologies of liberalism, radicalism, and conservatism, and to the general evolution of ideas in the modern world.

Distinctively, The Sociological Tradition focuses on five ideas—community, authority, status, the sacred, and alienation—as a perspective or framework within which both empirical and theoretical sociology fall.

Tracing these five ideas back to the formative period of 1830–1900, Professor Nisbet demonstrates that it was the coalescence of these central concepts that marked the emergence of sociology as a mode of thinking about the modern world. Indeed, not only do these ideas form the substance of what is unique to the sociological tradition; they also provide what is most seminal in sociology’s relationship to the other social sciences and to the humanities.

Written with Professor Nisbet’s customary elegance and insight, The Sociological Tradition is addressed to anyone interested in the making of the modern mind.
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Robert Nisbet is Professor of Sociology In the University of California at Riverside. Amongst his many works are Community and Power, Emile Durkheim, and Tradition and Revolt.

It was in the years 1830-1900 that the conceptual framework of modern sociology was created and it is this period, from de Tocqueville and Marx to Durkheim and Weber, that Professor Nisbet analyses. In particular he studies the development of five key concepts—community, authority, status, the sacred, and alienation which are at the heart of modern social theory.

* This thoughtful and lucid guide shows more clearly than any previous book on social thought the common threads in the sociological tradition and the reasons why so many of its central concepts have stood the test of time.’
Times Literary Supplement

When first published, The Sociological Tradition had a profound and positive impact on sociology, providing a rich sense of intellectual background to a relatively new discipline in America. Robert Nisbet describes what he considers the golden age of sociology, 1830-1900, outlining five major themes of nineteenth-century sociologists: community, authority, status, the sacred, and alienation. Nisbet focuses on sociology`s European heritage, delineating the arguments of Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber in new and revealing ways.

When the book initially appeared, the Times Literary Supplement noted that `this thoughtful and lucid guide shows more clearly than any previous book on social thought the common threads in the sociological tradition and the reasons why so many of its central concepts have stood the test of time.` And Lewis Coser, writing in the New York Times Book Review, claimed that `this lucidly written and elegantly argued volume should go a long way toward laying to rest the still prevalent idea that sociology is an upstart discipline, unconcerned with, and alien to, the major intellectual currents of the modern world.`

Its clear and comprehensive analysis of the origins of this discipline ensures The Sociological Tradition a permanent place in the literature on sociology and its origins. It will be of interest to those interested in sociological theory, the history of social thought, and the history of ideas. Indeed, as Alasdair Maclntyre observed: `We are unlikely to be given a better book to explain to us the inheritance of sociology from the conservative tradition.`