Embattled Reason: Volume 1, Essays on Social KnowledgeRoutledge, 2020 M03 6 - 378 pages Embattled Reason constitutes an intellectual profile of one of America's preeminent sociologists. This collection of essays, published over the course of thirty years, embodies a series of intellectual choices in response to current concerns and to debates of the past, affording a coherent and unified view of Bendix's work as a whole. |
Contents
The Age of Ideology Persistent and Changing 3 Sociology and the Distrust of Reason | |
Science and the Purposes of Knowledge | |
Theoretical Perspectives Introduction | |
Images of Society and Problems of Concept Formation in Sociology with Bennett Berger 6 Social Theory and the Break with Tradition | |
Reflections on Modern Western States and Civil Societies with John Bendix 9 Changing Patterns of Authority in Relation to Industrialization and Soci... | |
Studies of Modernization Introduction | |
Industrialization Ideologies and Social Structure | |
Social Stratification and the Political Community | |
Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered | |
The Special Position of Europe | |
The Intellectuals Role in the Modern World | |
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