Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge, Volume 1Transaction Publishers - 324 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. Reinhard Bendix is professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Berkeley. |
Contents
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Sociology and the Distrust of Reason | 61 |
Science and the Purposes of Knowledge | 83 |
Theoretical Perspectives | 105 |
Introduction to Part II | 107 |
Images of Society and Problems of Concept Formation in Sociology with Bennett Berger | 111 |
Social Theory and the Break with Tradition | 133 |
Changing Patterns of Authority in Relation to Industrialization and Social Protest | 203 |
Studies of Modernization | 231 |
Introduction to Part III | 233 |
Industrialization Ideologies and Social Structure | 237 |
Social Stratification and the Political Community | 251 |
Tradition and Modernity Reconsidered | 279 |
The Special Position of Europe | 321 |
The Intellectuals Role in the Modern World | 339 |
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Embattled Reason: Volume 1, Essays on Social Knowledge Reinhard Bendix,Taylor & Francis Group No preview available - 2020 |