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Problematics of Sociology: The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995

Neil J. Smelser

3.3/5 ( ratings)

These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays identify, as he says in the first chapter, ". . . some central problematics—those generic, recurrent, never resolved and never completely resolvable issues—that shape the work of the sociologist."

Each chapter considers a different level of sociological analysis: micro , meso , macro , and global . Within this framework, Smelser covers a variety of topics, including the place of the rational and the nonrational in social action and in social science theory; the changing character of group attachments in post-industrial society; the eclipse of social class; and the decline of the nation-state as a focus of solidarity.

The clarity of Smelser's writing makes this a book that will be welcomed throughout the field of social science as well as by anyone wishing to understand sociology's essential characteristics and problems.

Language: English

Pages: 138

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: February 26, 1997

ISBN: 0520206754

ISBN 13: 9780520206755

Problematics of Sociology: The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995

Neil J. Smelser

3.3/5 ( ratings)

These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays identify, as he says in the first chapter, ". . . some central problematics—those generic, recurrent, never resolved and never completely resolvable issues—that shape the work of the sociologist."

Each chapter considers a different level of sociological analysis: micro , meso , macro , and global . Within this framework, Smelser covers a variety of topics, including the place of the rational and the nonrational in social action and in social science theory; the changing character of group attachments in post-industrial society; the eclipse of social class; and the decline of the nation-state as a focus of solidarity.

The clarity of Smelser's writing makes this a book that will be welcomed throughout the field of social science as well as by anyone wishing to understand sociology's essential characteristics and problems.

Language: English

Pages: 138

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of California Press

Release: February 26, 1997

ISBN: 0520206754

ISBN 13: 9780520206755

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