{"product_id":"visions-of-the-sociological-tradition-9780226475462","title":"Visions of the Sociological Tradition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036546498903,"sku":"9780226475462","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226475462.jpg?v=1750932330","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visions-of-the-sociological-tradition-9780226475462","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}