Professor Rex's controversial book concerns not only those who are professional sociologists but all thinking people who live in the modern world. One of the objects of sociology is to give 'power to the people', to make a contribution to the understanding of political problems. Rex writes from a deep conviction that sociology is a subject whose insights should be made available to the great mass of the people, so that they may liberate themselves from the mystification of social reality that is continually and routinely presented to them through the media, by those who exercise power and by…mehr
Professor Rex's controversial book concerns not only those who are professional sociologists but all thinking people who live in the modern world. One of the objects of sociology is to give 'power to the people', to make a contribution to the understanding of political problems. Rex writes from a deep conviction that sociology is a subject whose insights should be made available to the great mass of the people, so that they may liberate themselves from the mystification of social reality that is continually and routinely presented to them through the media, by those who exercise power and by those who have influence. The book is certain to stimulate debate, both in sociological and political fields and more generally, and is also a serious contribution to the discussion of the methodology and purposes of sociology.
Part 1. The Problem of Social Knowledge 1. Sociology, Demystification and Common Sense 2. The Givens of Sociological Analysis 3. Actors' Theories and Sociologists' Constructs 4. Ideal Types, Structure and Quantitative Aspects of Sociology Part 2. Basic Problems of Theory Building 5. Social Structures, the Building Blocks of History 6. Some Major Problems of Social Structure 7. Structures, System and Conflict Part 3. First, Second and Third Worlds 8. The Western Capitalist Complex: Corporations and Classes 9. The Western Capitalist Complex: the Engineering of Consent 10. The Second World: Central Economic Planning and Political Mobilisation 11. The Third World and the Institutions of Colonialism Part 4. Social Structures and Moral Perspectives 12. The Moral Disintegration of the Enlightened World 13. The Revolution of the Third World and the New Dark Ages 14. Public Issues and Private Troubles 15. The Vocation of a Sociologist in a Collapsing Civilisation 16. Some Utopian Perspectives for a Distant Future
Part 1. The Problem of Social Knowledge 1. Sociology, Demystification and Common Sense 2. The Givens of Sociological Analysis 3. Actors' Theories and Sociologists' Constructs 4. Ideal Types, Structure and Quantitative Aspects of Sociology Part 2. Basic Problems of Theory Building 5. Social Structures, the Building Blocks of History 6. Some Major Problems of Social Structure 7. Structures, System and Conflict Part 3. First, Second and Third Worlds 8. The Western Capitalist Complex: Corporations and Classes 9. The Western Capitalist Complex: the Engineering of Consent 10. The Second World: Central Economic Planning and Political Mobilisation 11. The Third World and the Institutions of Colonialism Part 4. Social Structures and Moral Perspectives 12. The Moral Disintegration of the Enlightened World 13. The Revolution of the Third World and the New Dark Ages 14. Public Issues and Private Troubles 15. The Vocation of a Sociologist in a Collapsing Civilisation 16. Some Utopian Perspectives for a Distant Future
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