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9780847685080

Sociological Visions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847685080

  • ISBN10:

    084768508X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-08-29
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Sociological Visions brings together a remarkable set of essays written by some of today's most influential figures, including William Julius Wilson, Daniel Bell, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeane Bethke Elshtain, Charles Tilly, Robert K. Merton, Vivian Zelizer and many others. Each essay details the authors vision of the social problems and forces that shape our times and how these can be addressed by scientific inquiry or appropriate policy assessment.

Table of Contents

Preface vii(4)
Acknowledgments xi
PART I 3(120)
Prologue: Sociology as a Perspective 3(14)
Kai Erikson
SOCIOLOGY AS ART AND AS SCIENCE 17(106)
Sociology as Science, Humanism, and Art
17(14)
Neil J. Smelser
The Two Faces of Social Science
31(26)
Alan Wolfe
Disciplined Artfulness and the Human Sciences
57(10)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
History and Sociological Imagining
67(16)
Charles Tilly
The Many Enchantments of Money
83(12)
Viviana A. Zelizer
Sociology and History: Terms of Endearment?
95(6)
Ira Katznelson
Social Science: An Imperfect Art
101(22)
Daniel Bell
SOCIOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY 123(96)
Toward a Broader Vision of Inner-City Poverty
123(30)
William Julius Wilson
Race, Localism, and Urban Poverty
153(10)
Margaret Weir
Inner-City as Place
163(6)
Michael Katz
Social Science and Social Policy: A Case Study of Overreaching
169(16)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Epilogue: Sociology as a Discipline
185(34)
Paul DiMaggio
PART II 219(78)
Introduction 219(6)
Kai Erikson
De-gendering "Man of Science": The Genesis and Epicene Character of the Word Scientist
225(30)
Robert K. Merton
On Robert Merton, Mary Somerville, and the Moral Authority of Science
255(8)
Gerald Holton
Strange Relation
263(12)
Denis Donoghue
A Life of Learning
275(22)
Robert K. Merton
About the Contributors 297

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