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• Part 1. The Problem of Social Knowledge 1. Sociology, Demystification and Common Sense 2. The Givens of Sociological Analysis 3. Actors’ Theories and Sociologists’ Constructs 4. Ideal Types, Structure and Quantitative Aspects of Sociology Part 2. Basic Problems of Theory Building 5. Social Structures, the Building Blocks of History 6. Some Major Problems of Social Structure 7. Structures, System and Conflict Part 3. First, Second and Third Worlds 8. The Western Capitalist Complex: Corporations and Classes 9. The Western Capitalist Complex: the Engineering of Consent 10. The Second World: Central Economic Planning and Political Mobilisation 11. The Third World and the Institutions of Colonialism Part 4. Social Structures and Moral Perspectives 12. The Moral Disintegration of the Enlightened World 13. The Revolution of the Third World and the New Dark Ages 14. Public Issues and Private Troubles 15. The Vocation of a Sociologist in a Collapsing Civilisation 16. Some Utopian Perspectives for a Distant Future

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• Part 1. The Problem of Social Knowledge 1. Sociology, Demystification and Common Sense 2. The Givens of Sociological Analysis 3. Actors’ Theories and Sociologists’ Constructs 4. Ideal Types, Structure and Quantitative Aspects of Sociology Part 2. Basic Problems of Theory Building 5. Social Structures, the Building Blocks of History 6. Some Major Problems of Social Structure 7. Structures, System and Conflict Part 3. First, Second and Third Worlds 8. The Western Capitalist Complex: Corporations and Classes 9. The Western Capitalist Complex: the Engineering of Consent 10. The Second World: Central Economic Planning and Political Mobilisation 11. The Third World and the Institutions of Colonialism Part 4. Social Structures and Moral Perspectives 12. The Moral Disintegration of the Enlightened World 13. The Revolution of the Third World and the New Dark Ages 14. Public Issues and Private Troubles 15. The Vocation of a Sociologist in a Collapsing Civilisation 16. Some Utopian Perspectives for a Distant Future

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• Part 1. The Problem of Social Knowledge 1. Sociology, Demystification and Common Sense 2. The Givens of Sociological Analysis 3. Actors’ Theories and Sociologists’ Constructs 4. Ideal Types, Structure and Quantitative Aspects of Sociology Part 2. Basic Problems of Theory Building 5. Social Structures, the Building Blocks of History 6. Some Major Problems of Social Structure 7. Structures, System and Conflict Part 3. First, Second and Third Worlds 8. The Western Capitalist Complex: Corporations and Classes 9. The Western Capitalist Complex: the Engineering of Consent 10. The Second World: Central Economic Planning and Political Mobilisation 11. The Third World and the Institutions of Colonialism Part 4. Social Structures and Moral Perspectives 12. The Moral Disintegration of the Enlightened World 13. The Revolution of the Third World and the New Dark Ages 14. Public Issues and Private Troubles 15. The Vocation of a Sociologist in a Collapsing Civilisation 16. Some Utopian Perspectives for a Distant Future