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Social theory for old and new modernities : essays on society and culture, 1976-2005 / Franco Ferrarotti ; edited by E. Doyle McCarthy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferrarotti, Franco.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology.
- Culture.
- Religion and sociology.
- Social movements.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 337 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Maria I. Macioti
- The modern world and its destiny
- Counter-cultures and postmodernism
- Beyond the authoritarian personality
- Civil society and state structures in creative tension
- The city and civil society
- New approaches to social movements in Western Europe
- The culture of violence
- Social marginality and violence in neo-urban societies
- Modern rationality and the paradox of the sacred
- History and sociology
- The lessons of positivism
- American and European social science
- Biography and the social sciences
- Thorstein Veblen and his critics
- The social type of the businessman
- Constantinian Christianity and the future of the Catholic Church
- The media pope
- Reflections on America
- Time and its social transformations
- On photography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780739115091
- 073911509X
- OCLC:
- 86109842
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