Title: Problematics of sociology
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Sociology, Methodology, Philosophy, Sociology, philosophy, Sociology, methodology, Sociologie, Philosophie, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Regional Studies, Anthropology, General, Theorie, Social Change, Sociology & Social History, Social Sciences
LC classification: HM24 .S5318 1997