Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

282 S.; 23 cm; kart.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex. - Englisch. - ... "This is the first and much needed study which demonstrates how American sociology has become 'a repository of discontent,' irrationality, and preserve of special interest groups. In his penetrating critique, Irving Louis Horowitz also illuminates the larger problems of American culture and intellectual life over the last quarter century. While chronicling the decline of American sociology, this unique and lively volume addresses the major social, cultural, and political controversies of our time. Horowitz seeks to return the discipline to the respect for reason and striving for objectivity that used to characterize its major figures and best traditions." - Paul Hollander ? (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Introduction --- I The Decomposition of Sociology --- The Decomposition of Sociology --- Disenthralling Sociology --- Sociology and Subjectivity --- Fascism Communism and Social Theory --- From Socialism to Sociology --- Scientific Access and Political Constraints --- Public Choice and the Sociological Imagination --- Social Contexts and Cultural Canons --- II The Reconstruction of Social Science --- Reconstructing the Social Sciences --- Human Life Political Domination and Social Science --- Policy Research in a Post-Sociological Environment --- Prediction and Paradox in Society --- Freedom Planning and the Moral Order --- Social Disputations and Moral Implications --- Social Science and the Great Tradition --- Social Science as the Third Culture --- Notes --- Name Index --- Subject Index. ISBN 0195092562