Bücher von Robert Nisbet

This memoir by the eminent sociologist and historian of ideas, Robert Nisbet, views Berkeley from a different perspective. This book is a fascinating picture of Berkeley as it was a half a century ago in its move to become the most important centre of learning west of the Mississippi.

When first published, The Sociological Tradition had a profound and positive impact on sociology, providing a rich sense of intellectual background to a relatively new discipline in America

The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us

When first published, The Sociological Tradition had a profound and positive impact on sociology, providing a rich sense of intellectual background to a relatively new discipline in America. Robert Nisbet describes what he considers the golden age of sociology, 1830-1900, outlining the major themes of nineteenth-century sociologies: community, authority, status, the sacred, and alienation. Nisbet focuses on sociology's European heritage, delineating the arguments of Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber in new and revealing ways.

A discussion of the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. It demonstrates that the sovereign political state is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances.