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Nicholas Christakis, James Fowler

Издател: Hachette Book Group

Renowned scientists Christakis and Fowler present compelling evidence for our profound influence on one another's tastes, health, wealth, happiness, beliefs, even weight, as they explain how social networks form and how they operate. In Connected, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get

William Graham Sumner

Издател: Liberty Fund

William Graham Sumner is the "forgotten man" of American intellectual history. Too often dismissed or only superficially understood, his interpretations are now attracting closer scrutiny and appreciation. He is remembered chiefly as one of the founding fathers of sociology. He was also a strong supporter of classical liberalism during a time when

José Casanova

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

In a sweeping recnsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casaova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of the modern societies. Casanova looks at five cases from two religious traditions in four countries. These cases challenges post-war - and indeed post-Enlightenment - assumptions about the role

Veska Kozhuharova (Editor)

Издател: Institute of Sociology

The subject of the XVIII congress of the ESRS attracted a lot of attention in Bulgaria. As a result the Bulgarian Society for Rural Sociology organized “The Bulgarian Village And Late Modernity” national conference in June 1999. It is part of the papers given at the conference that are published in the present book within the “Bulgarian

Richard Dawkins

Издател: Oxford University Press

Richard Dawkins wrote The Selfish Gene in 1976. This book discusses the ideas of evolution and how the trait of being selfish is passed on. He then goes on to mention the possibility of overcoming these selfish tendencies. Dawkins states that the purpose of his book is to “examine the biology of selfishness and altruism”. From the very