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What is sociology? / Norbert Elias ; translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott ; with a foreword by Reinhard Bendix.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Elias, Norbert, Works ; v. 5.Publisher: Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: xviii, 236 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781906359058
  • 1906359059
Uniform titles:
  • Was ist Soziologie? English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 23
LOC classification:
  • HM57 .E5813 2012
Contents:
Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 -- Note on the text -- Foreword by Reinhard Bendix (1978) -- Introduction -- Sociology: the questions framed by Comte -- The sociologist as a hunter of myths -- Game models -- Universal features of human society -- Human interdependences: problems of social bonds -- The problem of the 'inevitability' of social development -- Karl Marx as sociologist and political sociologist -- The sociogenesis of the concept of 'society' as the subject matter of sociology -- Appendices -- I. Human 'instincts': the views of Konrad Lorenz and Arnold Gehlen -- II. On Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic theory and Claude Levi-Strauss's structuralism -- III. Fiscal inequality under the ancien regime.
Summary: "Translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott, volume 5 of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias" contains Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionalised today. In his vision, sociology is concerned with the whole course of the development of human society. Especially important are the 'game models', which demonstrate the connections between power ratios, unintended consequences, unplanned long-term processes and the way people perceive and conceptualise the social processes in which they are caught up in interdependence with each other. This edition contains two extra chapters previously unpublished in English, one of them a substantial discussion of the legacy of Marx."--Publisher's website.
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First published in German by Juventa Verlag, 1970.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index.

Norbert Elias, 1897-1990 -- Note on the text -- Foreword by Reinhard Bendix (1978) -- Introduction -- Sociology: the questions framed by Comte -- The sociologist as a hunter of myths -- Game models -- Universal features of human society -- Human interdependences: problems of social bonds -- The problem of the 'inevitability' of social development -- Karl Marx as sociologist and political sociologist -- The sociogenesis of the concept of 'society' as the subject matter of sociology -- Appendices -- I. Human 'instincts': the views of Konrad Lorenz and Arnold Gehlen -- II. On Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic theory and Claude Levi-Strauss's structuralism -- III. Fiscal inequality under the ancien regime.

"Translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott, volume 5 of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias" contains Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionalised today. In his vision, sociology is concerned with the whole course of the development of human society. Especially important are the 'game models', which demonstrate the connections between power ratios, unintended consequences, unplanned long-term processes and the way people perceive and conceptualise the social processes in which they are caught up in interdependence with each other. This edition contains two extra chapters previously unpublished in English, one of them a substantial discussion of the legacy of Marx."--Publisher's website.

Translated from the German.

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