Publication

1997 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

27,750 words, Guess

Page Count

111 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number96034335
  • Goodreads243475
  • LibraryThing381916

Classifications

  • DDC301
  • LCCHM24 .S5318 1997

Description

Based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered at Humboldt University in the spring of 1995, Problematics of Sociology is a distillation of Neil Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology. Each chapter considers a different level of analysis: micro, meso, macro, and global. Within this framework, the themes considered range over a variety of topics, including the place of the rational and nonrational in social action and in social science theory; social institutions as imagined entities; the eclipse of social class; and the decline of the nation-state as a focus of solidarity.

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