By Donald N. Levine
In this exceptional assortment, Donald N. Levine rejuvenates the sphere of social idea within the face of lagging institutional help. The paintings canvasses the universe of sorts of conception paintings in sociology and provides probing examples from his array of scholarly investigations.
Social idea as a Vocation throws clean mild at the texts of vintage authors (Comte, Durkheim, Simmel, Weber, Park, Parsons, and Merton). Ranging broadly, its important chapters care for the sociology of strangers and the somatic dimensions of social clash; the social capabilities of ambiguity and using metaphors in technological know-how; modern dilemmas of Ethiopian society; logical tensions within the principles of freedom and cause; and the that means of nationhood in our international period. The e-book comprises Levine’s transformative research of the sector of Ethiopian experiences, and his acclaimed interpretation of the discontents of modernity. It makes the daring flow to merge philosophically trained analyses with empirical work.
Finally, Levine makes a speciality of what he perspectives because the modern predicament of liberal schooling, and provides feedback for tactics to stimulate new efforts in educating and studying to do social conception. This booklet is an indispensable contribution to social technological know-how collections and will be learn via all attracted to the way forward for the social sciences.
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For a discursive exposition of this question, see Weber, General Economic History, trans. Frank H. Knight (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1950). 4 Taking the Measure of Auguste Comte I Like mountains in a range, the makers of the sociological tradition become more imposing the farther back we stand from them. Dimly sensed as a collectivist mystic, Durkheim later flashed into view as a peak of analytic discipline. Max Weber, long a misguided economic historian, only slowly emerged as an overarching intellectual summit.
He ignores Comte’s achievement as a sociological theorist, of which Evans-Pritchard observed, with only slight exaggeration, that there is little of general methodological or theoretical significance in Durkheim’s writings that we do not find in Comte. He arbitrarily bypasses Aron’s avis that Comte is the seminal theorist of industrial society. Just as clearly, Fletcher projects an inflated and somewhat misleading view of Comte. To claim that Comte’s is the only productive approach to sociology or that “Comte’s formulations were every bit as precise and 22 Taking the Measure of Auguste Comte rigorous” as those of Durkheim and Weber (p.
Note to the reader, then: I organize these selections with the hope that, however much you my be edified or irritated by the substance of their content, you will study them in order to determine what they are doing, even more than for what they are saying. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Notes In what other discipline would scientists employ central concepts, for example, like anomie, strangerhood, and rationalization, as though they had univocal meanings, when established theoretic analyses of each had demonstrated the polysemic character of those notions?