Description: History and Theory of the Social Sciences : Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air, Paperback by Wagner, Peter, ISBN 0761965696, ISBN-13 9780761965695, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Divided into two parts, this book examines the train of social theory from the 19th century, through to the `organization of modernity', in relation to ideas of social planning, and as contributors to the `rationalistic revolution' of the `golden age' of capitalism in the 1950s and 60s. Part two examines key concepts in the social sciences. It begins with some of the broadest concepts used by social scientists: choice, decision, action and institution and moves on to examine the `collectivist alternative': the concepts of society, culture and polity, which are often dismissed as untenable by postmodernists today. This is a major contribution to contemporary social theory and provides a host of essential insights into the task of social scie
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Book Title: History and Theory of the Social Sciences : Not All That Is Solid
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A History and Theory of the Social Sciences: Not All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Publisher: SAGE Publications INC International Concepts
Publication Year: 2001
Subject: Anthropology
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 320 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Peter Wagner
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
