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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gouldner, Alvin Ward, 1920-1980. Coming crisis of Western sociology. New York, Basic Books [1970] (OCoLC)647441284 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alvin Ward Gouldner |
ISBN: | 0465012787 9780465012787 |
OCLC Number: | 80045 |
Description: | xv, 528 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | pt. 1. Sociology: contradictions and infrastructure. Introduction: toward a critique of sociology -- Sociology and sub-sociology -- Utilitarian culture and sociolgy -- 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. |
Responsibility: | Alvin W. Gouldner. |
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