Description, explanation and understanding : selected writings, 1944-1980
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Description, explanation and understanding : selected writings, 1944-1980
（Edinburgh education and society series）
Edinburgh University Press, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references
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This volume contains Tom Burn's theories on the nature of society. Focused around Burn's assertion that sociology goes beyond the interpretation of social behaviour to explain the heart of society, this book draws together some of his work and gives insights into society since World War II.
Table of Contents
- Calamity bay
- men and barbed wire
- friends, enemies and the polite fiction
- cliques and cabals
- micropolitics
- the sociology of industry
- sociological explanation
- consumer behaviour
- the revolt of the privileged
- public service and private world
- leisure in industrial society
- the organization of public opinion
- sovereignty, interests and bureaucracy in the modern state.
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