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Author Gouldner, Alvin Ward, 1920-1980.

Title For sociology : renewal and critique in sociology today / Alvin W. Gouldner
Published Harmondsworth [etc.] : Penguin, 1975

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 W'PONDS  301.08 Gou 1975  AVAILABLE
Description 9 unnumbered pages,465 pages ; 19cm
Series Pelican book
Pelican book.
Contents Pt. 1. Critiques of sociology -- 1. Anti-minotaur: the myth of a value-free sociology -- 2. The sociologist as partisan: sociology and the welfare state -- 3. Remembrance and renewal in sociology -- 4. The politics of the mind -- 5. Sociology -- pt. 2. Backgrounds to sociology -- 6. Some observations on systematic theory, 1945-55 -- 7. Reciprocity and autonomy in functional theory -- 8. The norm of reciprocity -- 9. The importance of something for nothing -- 10. Personal reality, social theory and the tragic dimension in science -- 11. Romanticism and classicism: deep structures in social science -- pt. 3. Marxisms and sociology -- 12. Émile Durkheim and the critique of socialism -- 13. Sociology and Marxism -- 14. The Red Guard -- 15. Comments on History and class consciousness -- 16. The two Marxisms
Analysis Sociology
Notes Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1973
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Sociology.
ISBN 0140218459 (paperback)