Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XVIII; 567 S.; 24 cm; fadengeh., illustr. Orig.-Pappband.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Vortitel mit Stempel "Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR". - Englisch. - INHALT : Chapter 1 The Interpretive Frame: Sociology and Liberalism ---- The Sociology of Knowledge ---- The Concept of Liberalism ---- Liberalism Defined ---- Early and Late Liberalism The Concept of Positivism ---- Positivism Defined ---- Types of Positivism The Structure of the Study ---- PART I The Civilization of Liberalism: 1200-1800 ---- Chapter 2 The Origins and Nature of Liberal Society ---- The Feudal Background ---- Liberal Society: Its Structure and Meaning ---- Chapter 3 Basic Transformations in the Western View of Nature ---- The Sociology of Science: Science as History ---- Society and Views of Nature ---- Greek Natural Science ---- Medieval Natural Science ---- Post-Renaissance Natural Science ---- The Enlightenment ---- Chapter 4 Basic Transformations in the Western View of Human Nature ---- Society and Views of Human Nature ---- The Greek View of Human Nature ---- Substantive Work ---- The Stages and Movement of History ---- The Society of Science Conclusion ---- Auguste Comte (1798-1857) ---- Philosophy and Method Substantive Work ---- The Three Stages of Social Development ---- The Nature of Society ---- The Positive Society and the Absence of Power ---- The Religion of Humanity Conclusion ---- Comte and Liberalism ---- Comte and the Liberal Dilemma ---- The End of Pseudoevolutionary Positivism ---- The General Current of French Positivism ---- Chapter 8 Science and the Problem of a Social Science ---- The Metaphysics of Liberalism ---- Hume and the Definition of Science ---- Hume's Theory of Knowledge ---- Reason and Morality ---- The Implications for Social Science The "Historical" and "Metaphysical" Approaches to Human ---- Behavior The Types of Sociology ---- Sociology as History ---- PART III The Maturing Tradition ---- Chapter 9 Evolution and the New Phase of Modern Science ---- Social Change and the Theory of Evolution ---- The Crisis of Evolution The Age of Methodology ---- Chapter 10 Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) ---- Philosophy and Method ---- The Metaphysics of Evolution ---- The Logic of Life and the Functional-Organic Method Substantive Work ---- The Data of Sociology ---- (u.v.a.m.) ISBN 0395250595