Problematics of sociology
Subtitle: the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995
By: Neil J. Smelser.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Sociology -- Philosophy.; Sociology -- Methodology.
Description: Based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered at Humboldt University in the spring of 1995, Problematics of Sociology is a distillation of Neil Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology.

Each chapter considers a different level of analysis: micro, meso, macro, and global. Within this framework, the themes considered range over a variety of topics, including the place of the rational and nonrational in social action and in social science theory; social institutions as imagined entities; the eclipse of social class; and the decline of the nation-state as a focus of solidarity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-106) and index.