{"product_id":"sociologyasanartform-9780765807564","title":"sociologyasanartform","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of our most original social thinkers, according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong kinship with literature, painting, Romantic history, and philosophy in the nineteenth century, the age in which sociology came into full stature. \u003cem\u003eSociology as an Art Form\u003c\/em\u003e is an introduction for the initiated and the uninitiated in so-ciology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNisbet explains the degree to which sociology draws from the same creative impulses, themes and styles (rooted in history), and actual modes of representa-tion found in the arts. He shows how the founding sociologists such as Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel constructed portraits (of the bourgeois, the worker, and the intellectual) and landscapes (of the masses, the poor, the factory system), all reflecting and contribut-ing to identical portraits and landscapes found in the literature and art of the period. In addition to marking the sim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: The Sources of Imagination; 2: Themes and Styles; 3: Sociological Landscapes; 4: Sociological Portraits; 5: The Problem of Motion; 6: The Rust of Progress\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018432414039,"sku":"9780765807564","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sociologyasanartform-9780765807564","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}