A History and Theory of the Social Sciences
：Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air
( 1 )
Publication subTitle ：Not All That Is Solid Melts into Air
Publication series ：1
Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd
Publication year： 2001
E-ISBN: 9781446264515
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761965695
Subject： C91-09 history of sociology, the history of social thought
Keyword： 社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
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