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Social Animal
E-bok, 2012
159 kr
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The Social Animal is a classic investigation of human beings as social animals.The Social Animal is a short, wide-ranging, witty and accessible book that sets out the present extent of our knowledge about how human societies and institutions really work, and what motivates the people who live …
Very Different, But Much the Same
The Evolution of English Society Since 1714
E-bok, 2014
850 kr
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Very Different, but Much the Same takes as its starting point the distribution of political, ideological, and economic power between English society''s constituent roles from the time when Daniel Defoe was writing Robinson Crusoe, and argues that Defoe would find it remarkably similar three …
The Origin of Human Social Institutions
Inbunden, 2001
1071 kr
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These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguably the central question in the study of human social evolution: how did the simple hunting and foraging bands of the Upper Palaeolithic evolve into the institutionally complex societies of the so-called Neolithic Revolution? …
Hutton and Butler
Lifting the Lid on the Workings of Power
Häftad, 2004
256 kr
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These essays offer penetrating insights into the events and controversies that have dominated the news agenda for the last two years.Never has the path to a British war been mapped so fully and swiftly as the road to Baghdad in 2002-3. Between them, the Hutton and Butler reports lifted the lid on …
British Sociology Seen from Without and Within
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Häftad, 2005
287 kr
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These eleven essays look at the current state of sociology in Britain from a number of intriguing perspectives. How important is it for British sociologists to be aware of the historical development of their subject in this country? How is British sociology seen by British scholars working in …
Very Different, But Much the Same
The Evolution of English Society Since 1714
Inbunden, 2014
1065 kr
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Very Different, but Much the Same takes as its starting point the distribution of political, ideological, and economic power between English society's constituent roles from the time when Daniel Defoe was writing Robinson Crusoe, and argues that Defoe would find it remarkably similar three …
Social Science and Political Theory
Häftad, 1969
321 kr
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Mr Runciman studies the relation of sociology to political philosophy, clarifies an number of disputed and often unclear topics in the social sciences, and extends traditional political philosophy in the direction of developments which, in 1969 at the time of this book's publication, were recent. …
The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
Häftad, 2009
487 kr
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In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary …
The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
Inbunden, 2009
618 kr
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In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary …
A Treatise on Social Theory
Häftad, 1983
764 kr
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In this first volume of a projected trilogy, the author argues that a methodology adequate to solve the long-standing debate over the status of the social as against the natural sciences can be constructed in terms of a fourhold distinction between the reportage, explanation, description and …
Max Weber: Selections in Translation
Häftad, 1978
716 kr
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In this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber's writings which reflect the full range of his major concerns: the nature of domination in human society, the role of ideas in history, the social determinants of religion, the origin and impact of industrial capitalism and the scope …
A Treatise on Social Theory
Häftad, 1989
878 kr
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This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and …
A Critique of Max Weber's Philosophy of Social Science
Häftad, 2002
373 kr
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This essay is written in the belief that it is possible to say both where Max Weber's philosophy of social science is mistaken and how these mistakes can be put right. Runciman argues that Weber's analysis breaks down at three decisive points: the difference between theoretical pre-suppositions and …
Great Books, Bad Arguments
Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto
Inbunden, 2010
325 kr
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Plato's Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, and Marx's Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being? In this lively and provocative …
Max Weber: Selections in Translation
E-bok, 1978
701 kr
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In this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber''s writings which reflect the full range of his major concerns: the nature of domination in human society, the role of ideas in history, the social determinants of religion, the origin and impact of industrial capitalism and the …
Max Weber: Selections in Translation
E-bok, 1978
681 kr
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In this volume, Mr Runciman has selected extracts, from Max Weber''s writings which reflect the full range of his major concerns: the nature of domination in human society, the role of ideas in history, the social determinants of religion, the origin and impact of industrial capitalism and the …
Great Books, Bad Arguments
Republic, Leviathan, and The Communist Manifesto
E-bok, 2010
428 kr
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Why Plato, Hobbes, and Marx are great — despite their arguments Plato''s Republic , Hobbes''s Leviathan , and Marx''s Communist Manifesto are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society …
