Sociological insights of great thinkers : sociology through literature, philosophy, and science

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Sociological insights of great thinkers : sociology through literature, philosophy, and science / Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren, editors.

Edling, Christofer. (Added Author). Rydgren, Jens. (Added Author).

Summary:

Sociology is customarily defined as the study of society and human social interaction. Some of its ideas come from formal research, undertaken by degreed practitioners. Yet the musings that underlie the discipline are the very same subjects that inspire the novelist, the philosopher, and even the scientist. What can the works of such individuals add to the sociological canon?

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ISBN: 9780313384707 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0313384703 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780313384714 (ebook)
ISBN: 0313384711 (ebook)
Physical Description: x, 370 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-344) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: William Shakespeare : on social stratification / Hiroshi Ono -- Plato : seven sociological ideas for the happy life / Guillermina Jasso -- Franz Kafka : bureaucracy, law, and abuses of the "iron cage" / Joachim J. Savelsberg -- Marcel Proust : on social status and capital forms / Jens Rydgren -- George Orwell : from democratic revolution to authoritarian rule / Karl-Dieter Opp -- Robert Musil : state, nation, and nationality / Helmut Kuzmics -- August Strindberg : forms of interaction / Christofer Edling -- Henrik Ibsen : the power of charisma / Fredrik Engelstad -- Chinua Achebe : colonial anomie / Wendy Griswold -- Ernst Cassirer : science, symbols, and logics / John W. Mohr -- Cicero : persons and positions / Lars Udehn -- Charles Darwin : selfishness and altruism / Wendelin Reich -- François Rabelais : materiality and culture / Emily Erikson -- Émile Zola : seductions and emancipations of consumption / Helena Flam -- Fyodor Dostoevsky : on extreme political violence / Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom and Joshua Thurston-Milgrom -- Goethe : the ambivalence of modernity and the Faustian ethos of personality / Hans-Peter Müller -- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck : at the intersection of sociocultural worlds / Karen A. Cerulo and Janet M. Ruane -- Dante Alighieri : the afterworlds are hell for sociologists / Peter Bearman -- Galileo Galilei : which road to scientific innovation? / Roberto Franzosi -- Jorge Luis Borges : reduction of social complexity / Filippo Barbera -- Issac Asimov : impacting and predicting sociocultural change / Kathleen M. Carley -- Alfred North Whitehead : from universal algebra to universal sociology / Thomas J. Fararo -- Kurt Vonnegut : from semicolons to apocalypses / Barry Markovsky -- Jonathan Swift : political satire and the public sphere / Gary Alan Fine -- Baruch Spinoza : monism and complementarity / Ronald L. Breiger -- Isaiah Berlin : on the sociology of freedom / Margareta Bertilsson -- Bertrand Russell : insights on power / David Willer -- Immanuel Kant : an analytic grammar for the relation between cognition and action / John Levi Martin -- John Dewey : the sociology of action / Christopher Muller and Christopher Winshop -- Charles Sanders Peirce : on the sociology of thinking / Richard Swedberg -- Thomas Hobbes : on generating social order / Mohammed Cherkaoui -- Jean Piaget : sociology beyond holism and individualism / Omar Lizardo.