Introduction -- Rousseau and the political community -- The politics of pluralism : Lamennais -- Leadership and social crisis -- Conservatism and sociology -- The decline and fall of social class -- Moral values and community -- Sociology as an art form -- Power and the intellectual -- The impact of technology on ethical decision-making -- Kinship and political power in first century Rome -- The permanent professors : a modest proposal -- Project Camelot and the science of man -- Conflicting academic loyalties
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Originally published 1968 by Random House, Inc., published 1999 by Transaction Publishers