Abstract For eight years President Dwight Eisenhower claimed to pursue peace and national security. Yet his policies entrenched the United States in a seemingly permanent cold war, a …
Contemporary Soviet Government (1975) is a leading study of the practice of Soviet government, examined against a background of Soviet Marxism. It presents an analysis of …
The Social Thought of Talcott Parsons offers an insightful new reading of the work of Talcott Parsons, keeping in view at once the important influences of Max Weber on his sociology …
The Sociological Imagination is among the most recognized books in the history of American Sociology. Yet, the sociological imagination as such, a radical form of self-consciousness, is …
The East-West struggle for supremacy from 1945 to 1989 shaped the lives of hundreds of millions and brought the world to the brink of disaster on several occasions. More than two …
G Böhme, N Stehr - The knowledge society: The growing impact of …, 1986 - Springer
Despite many insightful, sophisticated and engaged inquiries into the interrelation of science and society, particularly in the 1920s and early 1930s and again in the 1960s and early …
This inaugural volume of the Pine Forge Press Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of C. Wright Mills. Accessible and provocative …
K Krippendorff - Critical Studies in Media Communication, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
This essay examines the possibility for critical scholarship to re‐articulate power so as to aid its undoing in social and, hence, dialogical practices. It starts with an experiment in …
As sociology students, or academics of sociology, many of us have read a variety of books about the origins and development of sociological theory. We are taught through these …