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In this work, Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day in order to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought.

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List of Figures Acknowledgments Prologue Pt. 1: Visions of the Past: Six Histories in Search of a Tradition 1: Disciplines and Their Stories 2: Positivist and Pluralist Narratives 3: Synthetic Narratives 4: Humanist and Contextualist Narratives 5: The Changing Need for Narratives Pt. 2: Visions of the Future: Seven Traditions in Search of a Good Society 6: The Hellenic Tradition 7: The British Tradition 8: The French Tradition 9: The German Tradition 10: The Marxian Tradition 11: The Italian Tradition 12: The American Tradition Pt. 3: Visions of the Present: Social Science in Crisis or Transformation? 13: Forming and Transforming a Discipline 14: Diagnoses of Our Time 15: On the Heritage of Sociology 16: In Quest of a Secular Ethic Epilogue: Dialogue as an Antidote to Fragmentation? Appendix A: Selected Dates in the History of Western Social Thought Appendix B: Graphic Depictions of the Six Types of Narrative Appendix C: Basic Postulates of the Seven Traditions References Index

Visions of the Sociological Tradition

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 9 January 1995
      ISBN-13 9780226475462
      978-0226475462
      ISBN-10 0226475468
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      History of ideas

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this work, Don Levine moves from the origins of systematic knowledge in ancient Greece to the present day in order to present an account that is at once a history of the social science enterprise and an introduction to the cornerstone works of Western social thought.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures Acknowledgments Prologue Pt. 1: Visions of the Past: Six Histories in Search of a Tradition 1: Disciplines and Their Stories 2: Positivist and Pluralist Narratives 3: Synthetic Narratives 4: Humanist and Contextualist Narratives 5: The Changing Need for Narratives Pt. 2: Visions of the Future: Seven Traditions in Search of a Good Society 6: The Hellenic Tradition 7: The British Tradition 8: The French Tradition 9: The German Tradition 10: The Marxian Tradition 11: The Italian Tradition 12: The American Tradition Pt. 3: Visions of the Present: Social Science in Crisis or Transformation? 13: Forming and Transforming a Discipline 14: Diagnoses of Our Time 15: On the Heritage of Sociology 16: In Quest of a Secular Ethic Epilogue: Dialogue as an Antidote to Fragmentation? Appendix A: Selected Dates in the History of Western Social Thought Appendix B: Graphic Depictions of the Six Types of Narrative Appendix C: Basic Postulates of the Seven Traditions References Index

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