TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elias,Norbert
TI  - What is sociology?
T2  - The collected works of Norbert Elias
SN  - 9781906359058
AV  - HM57 .E5813 2012
U1  - 301.01 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Dublin
PB  - University College Dublin Press
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - "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 This edition contains two extra chapters previously unpublished in English, one of them a substantial discussion of the legacy of Marx."--Publisher's website
ER  -