Toward a critical sociology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birnbaum, Norman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 451 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1971.

Summary:

Norman Birnbaum has contributed to Toward a Critical Sociology as an author.Norman Birnbaum is University Professor at Georgetown University Law School and the author of The Crisis of Industrial Society and Toward a Critical Sociology (both from OUP). A founding editor of New Left Review, he has served on the board of Partisan Review and The Nation . He lives in Washington, D.C.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. SOCIAL THEORY

The Sociological Study of Ideology, 1940-1960

Monarchs and Sociologists: A Reply to Professor Shils and Mr. Young

Conservative Sociology: Robert Nisbet's "The Sociological Tradition

The Crisis in Marxist Sociology

II. RELIGION

The Zwinglian Reformation in Zurich

Eastern Europe and the Death of God

III. THE SOCIOLOGY OF SOCIOLOGY

Science, Ideology, and Dialogue: The Amsterdam Sociological Congress

Friends and Enemies

On the Sociology of Current Social Research

A Socio-Theater of the Absurd: A World Congress of Sociology in Bulgaria

IV. POLITICS

David Riesman's Image of Politics

Great Britain: The Reactive Revolt

A Journey to Eastern Europe (1965)

The Making of a Counter-Culture

Late Capitalism in the United States

Is There a Post-Industrial Revolution?

The Problem of a Knowledge Elite

Name Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Subject Index

I

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780198020134

0198020139

OCLC:

466432116