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Center : ideas and institutions / edited by Liah Greenfeld and Michel Martin.
LIBRA HM24 .C37 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shils, Edward, 1910-1995.
- Shils, Edward.
- Macrosociology.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Social values.
- Religion and sociology.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- There are several concepts within the social sciences that refer to the fundamental realities on which the various disciplines focus their attention. The concept of the 'center, ' as defined by Edward Shils, has such a status in sociology, for it deals with and attempts to provide an answer to the central question of the discipline - the question of the constitution of society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- ISBN:
- 0226306860 :
- OCLC:
- 17982799
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