Varieties of political expression in sociology.
By: Essays by: Robert K. Merton [and others] With an introd. by Tom Bottomore and an epilogue by E. Digby Baltzell.
Contributors: Merton, Robert King, 1910-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Sociology; Political sociology; Sociologists -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Other titles: American journal of sociology.
Description: The autobiography of a slave kidnapped from a West African tribe as a child who, during his voyages and trials in various parts of the world, educated himself and ultimately purchased his freedom.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"An American journal of sociology publication."
Appeared also as v. 78, no. 1 (July 1972) of the American journal of sociology.
Table of contents: title: Merton, R. K. Insiders and outsiders: a chapter in the sociology of knowledge.; title: Becker, H. S. and Horowitz, I. L. Radical politics and sociological research: observations on methodology and ideology.; title: Lipset, S. M. and Ladd, E. C., Jr. The politics of American sociologists.; title: Janowitz, M. Professionalization of sociology.; title: Rhoads, J. K. On Gouldner's Crisis of western sociology.; title: Dibble, V. K. Political judgments and the perception of social relationships: an analysis of some applied social research in late 19th-century Germany.; title: Coser, L. A. Marxist thought in the first quarter of the 20th century.; title: Nelson, B. Review essay: Science, technology and society in seventeenth-century England, by Robert K. Merton.