{"product_id":"a-critical-dictionary-of-sociology-9780415861915","title":"A Critical Dictionary of Sociology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike most other sociology or social science dictionaries, in this translation of the \u003cem\u003eCritical Dictionary of Sociology\u003c\/em\u003e, taken from the second French edition of the Dictionary and edited by the English sociologist Peter Hamilton, the critical value of this distinctive work is at last made available for a wider audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach entry grapples directly with an issue, whether theoretical, epistemological, philosophical, political or empirical, and provides a strong statement of what the authors think about it. The discussions are considered but argumentative.  By reaffirming that a non-marxist style of critique is still possible, Boudon and Bourricaud have presented a distinctive approach to the key issues which confront the societies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor some this work will be a textbook, for others an indispensable sourcebook of sociological concepts, and for most a way of opening our eyes to new dimensions in our understanding of t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEntries: Action; Action (Collective); Aggregation; Alienation; Anomie; Authority; Beliefs; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Causality; Charisma; Community; Comte, Auguste; Conformity and deviance; Crime; Culturalism and culture; Cycles; Democracy; Determinism; Development; Dialectic; Diffusion; Durkheim, Emile; Economics and Sociology; Egalitarianism; Elections; Elites; Experimentation; Family; Fuction; Functionalism; Groups; History and Sociology; Historicism; Ideologies; Knowledge; Machiavelli, Niccolo; Marx, Karl; Measurement; Methodology; Minorities; Needs; Objectivity; Power; Prediction; Professions; Prophetism; Rationality; Religion; Reproduction; Role; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Schumpeter, Joseph; Social Change; Social Control; Social Mobility; Sociobiology; Spencer, Herbert; State; Social Stratification; Structuralism; Structure; Suicide; Social symbolism; System; Teleology; Theory; de Tocqueville; Utilitarianism; Utopia; Weber, Max  Thematic Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018207723863,"sku":"9780415861915","price":45.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415861915.jpg?v=1750776021","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-critical-dictionary-of-sociology-9780415861915","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}