Essays in the theory of society.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Sociology -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Bibliography, p. (281)-291.
Table of contents: value: Values and social science: the value dispute in perspective.; value: Homo sociologicus; on the history, significance, and limits of the category of social role.; value: Sociology and human nature: a postscript to Homo sociologicus.; value: Out of Utopia; toward a reorientation of sociological analysis.; value: In praise of Thrasymachus.; value: On the origin of inequality among men.; value: Liberty and equality: reflections of a sociologist on a classical theme of politics.; value: Market and plan; two types of rationality.; value: Uncertainty, science, and democracy.; value: Sociology and the sociologist: on the problem of theory and practice.