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9780415017459

A Critical Dictionary of Sociology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415017459

  • ISBN10:

    0415017459

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1989-11-16
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Unlike most other sociology or social science dictionaries, in this translation of the Critical Dictionary of Sociology, taken from the second French edition of the Dictionary and edited by the English sociologist Peter Hamilton, the critical value of this distinctive work is at last made available for a wider audience. Each entry grapples directly with an issue, whether theoretical, epistemological, philosophical, political or empirical, and provides a strong statement of what the authors think about it. The discussions are considered but argumentative. By reaffirming that a non-marxist style of critique is still possible, Boudon and Bourricaud have presented a distinctive approach to the key issues which confront the societies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries. For some this work will be a textbook, for others an indispensable sourcebook of sociological concepts, and for most a way of opening our eyes to new dimensions in our understanding of the great ideas and theories of sociology.

Table of Contents

Entries: Action
Action (Collective)
Aggregation
Alienation
Anomie
Authority
Beliefs
Bureaucracy
Capitalism
Causality
Charisma
Community
Comte, Auguste
Conformity and deviance
Crime
Culturalism and culture
Cycles
Democracy
Determinism
Development
Dialectic
Diffusion
Durkheim, Emile
Economics and Sociology
Egalitarianism
Elections
Elites
Experimentation
Family
Fuction
Functionalism
Groups
History and Sociology
Historicism
Ideologies
Knowledge
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Marx, Karl
Measurement
Methodology
Minorities
Needs
Objectivity
Power
Prediction
Professions
Prophetism
Rationality
Religion
Reproduction
Role
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Schumpeter, Joseph
Social Change
Social Control
Social Mobility
Sociobiology
Spencer, Herbert
State
Social Stratification
Structuralism
Structure
Suicide
Social symbolism
System
Teleology
Theory
de Tocqueville
Utilitarianism
Utopia
Weber, Max Thematic
Index
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