Communities of discourse : ideology and social structure in the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and European socialism / Robert Wuthnow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wuthnow, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history.

Ideology.

Reformation.

Enlightenment.

Capitalism--Europe--History.

Capitalism.

Socialism--Europe--History.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 739 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest challenges to the status quo in the development of modern society—the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the rise of Marxist socialism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction The Problem of Articulation

Part I The Protestant Reformation

1 Contexts and Perspectives

2 State Autonomy and the Reformation

3 The Failure of Reformation

4 Social Conditions and Reformation Discourse

Part II The Enlightenment

5 Mercantilism and the House of Learning

6 Cultural Production in France and England

7 Enlightenment Developments in Prussia and Scotland

8 The Enlightenment in Decentralized Societies

9 Autocracy and the Limits of Enlightenment

10 Text and Context

Part III European Socialism

11 Institutional and Intellectual Antecedents

12 Bismarck's Contribution to German Socialism

13 Liberalism in France and Great Britain

14 Socialism in the Broader European Context

15 Theory and Practice

Part IV Sociology and Cultural Change

16 The Legacy of Classical Theory

17 Social Structure and Ideology

18 Capitalism and the Shaping of Culture

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-732) and index.

ISBN:

9780674045408

0674045408

OCLC:

438782496