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The discovery of society / Randall Collins and Michael Makowsky.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : McGraw-Hill, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Edition: Sixth editionDescription: viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0070118833
  • 9780070118836
  • 0071156755
  • 9780071156752
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Discovery of society.DDC classification:
  • 301.09 21
LOC classification:
  • HM19 .C64 1998
Contents:
Society and illusion -- The vicissitudes of nineteenth-century rationalism -- The prophets of Paris: Saint-Simon and Comte -- Sociology in the underground: Karl Marx -- The last gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville -- Nietzsche's madness -- Do-gooders, evolutionists, and racists -- The great breakthrough -- Dreyfus's empire: Emile Durkheim and Georges Sorel -- Max Weber: the disenchantment of the world -- Sigmund Freud: conquistador of the irrational -- The discovery of the invisible world: Simmel, Cooley, and Mead -- The vicissitudes of twentieth-century sophistication -- The discovery of the ordinary world: Thomas, Park, and the Chicago School -- The emergence of African-American sociology: DuBois, Frazier, Drake, and Cayton -- The construction of the social system: Pareto and Parsons -- Hitler's shadow: Michels, Mannheim, and Mills -- Erving Goffman and the theater of social encounters -- Contemporary sociological theory in France, Germany, and the United States -- The impact of women in sociology in the late twentieth century.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Society and illusion -- The vicissitudes of nineteenth-century rationalism -- The prophets of Paris: Saint-Simon and Comte -- Sociology in the underground: Karl Marx -- The last gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville -- Nietzsche's madness -- Do-gooders, evolutionists, and racists -- The great breakthrough -- Dreyfus's empire: Emile Durkheim and Georges Sorel -- Max Weber: the disenchantment of the world -- Sigmund Freud: conquistador of the irrational -- The discovery of the invisible world: Simmel, Cooley, and Mead -- The vicissitudes of twentieth-century sophistication -- The discovery of the ordinary world: Thomas, Park, and the Chicago School -- The emergence of African-American sociology: DuBois, Frazier, Drake, and Cayton -- The construction of the social system: Pareto and Parsons -- Hitler's shadow: Michels, Mannheim, and Mills -- Erving Goffman and the theater of social encounters -- Contemporary sociological theory in France, Germany, and the United States -- The impact of women in sociology in the late twentieth century.

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