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The coming crisis of Western sociology
Title
The coming crisis of Western sociology / Alvin W. Gouldner.
ISBN
0465012787
9780465012787
Publication
New York : Basic Books, [1970]
Copyright Notice Date
©1970
Physical Description
xv, 528 pages ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Gray Social Thought 2007: Dust jacket. From the library of Bradford H. Gray. Accompanied by: sheet of paper with handwriting on it (1 folded sheet ; 7 cm).
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
His Studies in the series on the social origins of social theory
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Sociology: contradictions and infrastructure. Introduction: toward a critique of sociology
Sociology and sub-sociology
Utilitarian culture and sociology
What happened in sociology: an historical model of structural development.
pt. 2. The world of Talcott Parsons. The early Parsons
Making the world whole: Parsons as a systems analyst
The moralistics of Talcott Parsons: Religion, Piety, and the quest for order in functionalism
Parsons on power and wealth.
pt. 3. The coming crisis of western sociology. The coming crisis of western sociology, I: the shift toward the welfare state
The coming crisis of western sociology, II: the entropy of functionalism
From Plato to Parsons: the infrastructure of conservative social theory
Notes on the crisis of Marxism and the emergence of academic sociology in the Soviet Union.
pt. 4. Epilogue: the theorist pulls himself together, partially. Living as a sociologist: toward a reflexive sociology.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
History.
Also listed under
Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States New York (State) New York.
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