The Selected Papers of Edward Shils, Volume 3: The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of LearningUniversity of Chicago Press, 1980 - 498 páginas This third volume of the Selected Papers of Edward Shils brings together ten essays, three of which have never been published before and all the others of which have been completely revised and elaborated. They deal with the history of American and European sociology as an intellectual undertaking and as a means to the attainment of practical ends. Professor Shils's main themes are the influence of ethical and practical intentions on scholarly study in the social sciences, the autonomy of the intellectual tradition of sociology, and the significance of the institutional organization of sociological teaching and research. |
Contenido
The Contemplation of Society in America | 95 |
The Confluence of Sociological Traditions | 134 |
Tradition Ecology and Institution in the History | 165 |
Social Science and Social Policy | 259 |
Learning and Liberalism | 289 |
The Pursuit of Knowledge and the Concern for | 356 |
Social Inquiry and the Autonomy of the Private Sphere | 421 |
Social Science as Public Opinion | 452 |
The Legitimacy of Social Inquiry | 465 |
Términos y frases comunes
academic social accepted action activities Albion Small American society American sociology analysis anthropology assimilated attitude authority became become beliefs Chicago civil servants classes cognitive expansion conception concerned conduct consensus contemporary criticism culture decades disciplines Durkheim economic educated empirical Ernest Burgess established ethical existence German governmental human humanistic ideal improvement individual influence inquiry institutionalization institutions intellectual interest interpretation interviewed investigation journals less macrosociological manipulation Marxism Max Weber ment modern society moral movement natural sciences Nonetheless objects observation organization outlook Park particular Paul Lazarsfeld persons political politicians practical problems Professor psychoanalysis public opinion radical reform regarded relationship Robert Merton scientific knowledge Second World Second World War situation social research social sciences social scientists sociological research sociological theory sociologists Soviet Union subject-matter surveys Talcott Parsons teachers techniques theoretical thought tion tradition United universities W. I. Thomas