| What Is Sociology?: Volume 5 Contributor(s): Elias, Norbert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906359059 ISBN-13: 9781906359058 Publisher: University College Dublin Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 301 |
| LCCN: 2012537046 |
| Lexile Measure: 1430 |
| Series: Collected Works Norbert Elias |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott, volume 5 of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias contains Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionalised today. In his vision, sociology is concerned with the whole course of the development of human society. Especially important are the 'game models', which demonstrate the connections between power ratios, unintended consequences, unplanned long-term processes and the way people perceive and conceptualise the social processes in which they are caught up in interdependence with each other. This edition contains two extra chapters previously unpublished in English, one of them a substantial discussion of the legacy of Marx. |