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Ralf Dahrendorf

Издател: Stanford University Press

In 1959, Dahrendorf published in his most influential work on social inequality, titled Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society. Despite later revisions and affirmations of his work, today this book still remains as his first detailed and most influential account of the problem of social inequality in modern, or postcapitalist, societies.

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Издател: Paratiritis publications

Our subjects “Democracy and civil society in the Balkans” touches on a number of burning issues. We are fully aware that our region rests on a razor’s edge. There have been some favourable developments, with the creation of new democracies and the beginning of the long effort to build up civil societies. There are also huge problems that

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

Judson R. Landis

Издател: Wadsworth Publishing Company Inc.

An excellent and well-organized introductory sociology text examining essential areas in the field and the important research associated with them. Research questions begin each chapter, with apt readings, new biographical sketches of important figures in the field, and search words at the end of chapters to guide readers to current online