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Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social sciences
ISBN : 0415482690
Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.
Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134557434
First published in 1982, this is one of Mary Douglas' favourite books. It is based on her meetings with friends in which they attempt to apply the grip/group analysis from Natural Symbols. The essays have been important texts for preparing grid/group exercises ever since. She is still trying to improve the argument of Natural Symbols and is always hoping to find better applications to illustrate the power of the two dimensions used for accurate comparison.
Author : Renée Claire Fox
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release :
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781412822770
This outstanding collection of essays by Renee C. Fox encompasses almost thirty years of original, pioneering research in the sociology of medicine. Based on fieldwork in a variety of medical settings in the United States, Belgium, and Zaire, these ethnographic essays examine chronic and terminal illness, medical research, therapeutic innovation, medical education and socialization, and bio-ethics. Within this framework, three empirical "cases" have been singled out for special scrutiny--the process of becoming a physician, the development of the artificial kidney machine and organ transplantation, and the evolution of medical research in Belgium. Without ignoring social structural or psychodynamic factors, Dr. Fox has explored basic cultural phenomena and questions associated with health, illness, and medicine: values, beliefs, symbols, rites, and the nuances of language: ethical and existential dilemmas and dualities; and the complex interrelationships between medicine, science, religion, and magic. She draws systematically and imaginatively upon anthropological, psychological, historical, and biological insights and integrates observations and analyses from her own studies in American, Western European, and Central African societies. This second, augmented edition includes Professor Fox's more recent contributions to the expanding field of the sociology of medicine. They are "The Evolution of Medical Uncertainty; The Human Condition of Health Professionals; Reflections on the Utah Artificial Heart Program; Is Religion Important in Belgium?; Medical Morality is Not Bioethics"--"Medical Ethics in China and the United States; "and "Medicine, Science and Technology. "The work also includes a new introduction, "Endings, Beginnings and Continuities." Now, anthropologists, sociologists, medical educators, scientists, researchers, and students can join her on her "journeys into the field" and share with her the priceless insights to be gained from the physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and their families, who are working, living, and dying on the edge of what is known, scrutable, and remediable--on the edge of medical science.
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
This volume is a compact collection of Weber's most trenchant sociological writings.
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 1999-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691009063
Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Swedberg has, in this volume, selected essays from Weber's enormous body of writings on the subject of economic sociology. The central themes of the anthology are modern capitalism and its relationships to politics, law, culture and religion.
Author : Max Weber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Introducing the student to the work of a great sociologist, this book opens with a comprehensive biographical essay on Weber's life and work and includes his essays on science and politics, power, religion, and social structures.
Author : Ieva Zake
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786485493
Written by the new generation of sociologists, these essays chart a course for the future of the discipline, both by revisiting forgotten theories and methods and by suggesting innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. Comprised of seven essays on theory and five on methodology, the volume also attempts to reconnect theorists and methodologists in a discussion about the future of the sociological enterprise.
Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610271785
Collection of essays on sociology, causation, and pragmatic considerations by one of the leading social scientists of the past half-century. Now republished in quality ebook format with active TOC, linked notes, and proper presentation for ereaders and apps.
Author : S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1995-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226195568
S. N. Eisenstadt is well known for his wide-ranging investigations of modernization, social stratification, revolution, comparative civilization, and political development. This collection of twelve major theoretical essays spans more than forty years of research, to explore systematically the bases of human action and society. Framed by a new introduction and an extensive epilogue, which are themselves important statements about processes of institutional formations and cultural creativity, the essays trace the major developments of contemporary sociological theory and analysis. Examining themes of trust and solidarity among immigrants, youth groups, and generations, and in friendships, kinships, and patron-client relationships, Eisenstadt explores larger questions of social structure and agency, conflict and change, and the reconstitution of the social order. He looks also at political and religious systems, paying particular attention to great historical empires and the major civilizations. United by what they reveal about three major dimensions of social life—power, trust, and meaning—these essays offer a vision of culture as both a preserving and a transforming aspect of social life, thus providing a new perspective on the relations between culture and social structure.
Author : H.H. Gerth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134689012
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.