What is sociology?

Author(s)

• Elias, Norbert
• Bogner, Artur
• Liston, Katie
• Mennell, Stephen
• Morrissey, Grace
• Jephcott, Edmund Francis Neville
• Bendix, Reinhard

Bibliographic Information

What is sociology?

Norbert Elias ; edited by Artur Bogner, Katie Liston and Stephen Mennell ; translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott ; with a foreword by Reinhard Bendix

（The collected works of Norbert Elias, v. 5）

University College Dublin Press, 2012

Rev. ed

Other Title

Was ist Soziologie?

What is sociology

Note

Translation of: Was ist Soziologie?

"First English edition published by Hutchinson, London, and Columbia University Press, New York, 1978"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-227) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Translated by Grace Morrissey, Stephen Mennell and Edmund Jephcott, volume 5 of the "Collected Works of Norbert Elias" contains Elias' broadest statement of the fundamentals of sociology, in important respects very different from the discipline as it is institutionalised today. In his vision, sociology is concerned with the whole course of the development of human society. Especially important are the 'game models', which demonstrate the connections between power ratios, unintended consequences, unplanned long-term processes and the way people perceive and conceptualise the social processes in which they are caught up in interdependence with each other. This edition contains two extra chapters previously unpublished in English, one of them a substantial discussion of the legacy of Marx.

Table of Contents

• Norbert Elias, 1897-1990
• Note on the text
• Foreword by Reinhard Bendix
• Introduction
• Sociology: the questions framed by Comte
• The sociologist as a hunter of myths
• Game models
• Universal features of human society
• Human interdependences: problems of social bonds
• The problem of the 'inevitability' of social development
• PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CHAPTERS: Karl Marx as sociologist and political sociologist
• The sociogenesis of the concept of 'society' as the subject matter of sociology.
• APPENDICES: Human 'instincts': the views of Konrad Lorenz and Arnold Gehlen
• On Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic theory and Claude Levi-Strauss's structuralism
• Fiscal inequality under the ancien regime
• Bibliography
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB16941585
• ISBN:
  • 9781906359058
• Country Code: ie
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Dublin
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 236 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 301.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sociology -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA84860457