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Lippmann argues "hopefully and wistfully" for rational inquiry into those conditions by which a good society may be reconstituted in order to halt the descent into violence and tyranny. He thinks there are world citizens who believe in the tenets of "the public philosophy", once basic to our democracy, and now almost forgotten. For action to this end there must be belief. And to recover this belief he explores the decline of the West- and the public philosophy. He has sensed the sickness of democracy, and the steps by which it was acquired, the extent to which it has threatened the public interest. In this process he studies the problem of the executive dominated by the legislative- concern of our founders, and of critics then and now. In the derangement of the primary functions of government he sees the democratic disaster of our century, an acceptance of the Jacobin doctrine of enfranchisement by displacement of the governing class. He feels that the democracies are ceasing to receive the traditions of civility, and are thereby cut off from a public philosophy. But he feels it still survives as a positive doctrine, that there still are obligations binding on all men:- the theory of property, freedom of speech, etc. Such a restoration as he envisions aims to resist and regulate desires and opinions - an unpopular program, but necessary to survival of democracy. He challenges our teachers to return to the great tradition. Not an easy book to read and digest. Perhaps Lippmann's name will spark the interest. (Kirkus Reviews)

A reprint of the Little, Brown edition of 1943. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or

This extraordinary prescient work by Ferdinand Toennies was written in 1887 for a small coterie of scholars, and over the next fifty years continued to grow in importance and adherents. Its translator into English, Charles P. Loomis, well described it as a volume which pointed back into the Middle Ages and ahead into the future in its attempt to answer the questions: "What are we? Where are we? Whence did we come? Where are we going?" If the questions seem portentous in the extreme, the answers Toennies provides are modest and compelling.

This is a provocative work that runs counter to the conventional wisdom that the poor are poor because the rich are rich. Rangel argues that the reasons for different levels of economic development between North America and Latin America lie in the two continents' divergent history of colonization, the differences between their dominating social structures, and the contrary ethical precepts of Catholicism and Protestantism. Last, but by no means least, there are two all-pervasive myths: in the past, that of the noble savage, in the present, that of the good revolutionary.

Psychophysics is a lively account by one of experimental psychology's seminal figures of his lifelong scientific quest for general laws governing human behavior. It is a landmark work that captures the fundamental themes of Steven's experimental research and his vision of what psychophysics and psychology are and can be. The context of this modern classic is detailed by Lawrence Mark's pungent and highly revealing introduction. The search for a general psychophysical law-a mathematical equation relating sensation to stimulus-pervades this work, first published in 1975. Stevens covers methods of measuring human psychophysical behavior; magnitude estimation, magnitude production, and cross-modality matching are used to examine sensory mechanisms, perceptual processes, and social consensus. The wisdom in this volume lies in its exposition of an approach that can apply generally to the study of human behavior.

A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias, limited attention and memory, and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking study, it is still read three decades later as a major contribution to our understanding of the mind. In their insightful new introduction, the authors relate the book to the cognitive revolution and its handmaiden, artificial intelligence.

This landmark theory of interpersonal relations and group functioning argues that the starting point for understanding social behavior is the analysis of dyadic interdependence

This book examines the international social science program of UNESCO as it evolved over nearly four decades between 1946 and 1984. It provides some remarks about the organizational setting, particularly the double hybridization of UNESCO and its consequences for the organization's functionalism.

Originally published in 1980 by McGraw-Hill.

Joseph Blasi documents and describes the workings of an existing kibbutzsociety to provide a model for utopian thinking and clear up confusionconcerning utopian values. He details the history and development of KibbutzVatik (a pseudonym), providing a systematic record of kibbutz culture: dailylife and social arrangement, economic cooperation and work, politics, education, and attitudes of community members.

A quarter of a century before Lyndon B. Johnson popularized the slogan "The Great Society," Donald Davidson wrote his critique of Leviathan, the omnipotent nation-state, in terms that only recently have come to be appreciated

Reprint. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

The official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, this annual publication includes significant scholarly research reflecting the diverse interests of scholars from various backgrounds who use a variety of models, approaches, and methodologies

This major study of the father of modern sociology explores the intimate relationship between the events of Max Weber's personal history and the development of his thought. In synthesizing these aspects of Weber's life, Mitzman has expanded and refined our understanding of this central twentieth-century figure. When it was first published in 1970, Paul Roazen described The Iron Cage as "an example of the history of ideas at its best."

Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Husserl. This volume will help scholars and students understand in the broadest sense the issues central to the logic of social scientifi c explanation, and will appeal to philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, as well as scholars of Weber.

Based on primary source documents, this historical study establishes the interconnections between private violence and political, social, and economic life in New York from 1930 to 1950. By describing and analyzing both the social world and social system of organized crime, Block provides a new perspective on racial and ethnic stereotypes in the study of organized crime. He also provides a penetrating look at one of the most misunderstood aspects of American society. East Side-West Side is an important book for historians, criminologists, and sociologists.

The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small handful of works that deserve to be read by Americans to understand the 1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline of will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark, unmistakable reminder that such national decline can happen again.

Harriet Martineau brought to her observations the convictions of a vehement English liberal and an astonishingly modern sociological approach

Since its first appearance in Germany in 1911, Jews and Modern Capitalism has provoked vehement criticism

Veblen has been claimed and rejected both by sociologists and economists as being one of theirs

The voluminous records of the Pierce and Poor families weave a story that runs from the late eighteenth century until World War I

For years, speculation has been mounting among lawyers, church leaders, social scientists, and the general public over the question of prolongation of life and the critically ill patient's "right to die." But what is the physician's attitude toward this controversial subject? Under what conditions does a doctor battle to save the life of the patient, and when does he decide to withdraw medical treatment and allow death to occur? The answers to these questions form the basis for a fascinating reexamination of the nature of death and dying, as seen from the physician's point of view.

Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history

The popular image of the Jewish community is that it consists primarily of members of the middle and upper middle classes

Becker, H. S. Introduction to the second edition.--Becker, H. S. Introduction to the first edition: the struggle for power on the campus.--Gusfield, J. Beyond Berkeley.--Trimberger, E. K. Columbia: the dynamics of a student revolution.--McEvoy, J. and Miller, A. The crisis at San Francisco State.--Friedland, W. H. and Edwards, H. Confrontation at Cornell.--Simon, R. J. and Carey, J. The phantom racist.--Flacks, R. Young intelligentsia in revolt.--Schiff, L. F. Dynamic young fogies--rebels on the right.--Drew, D. E. Jewish students today: radical or conservative.--Becker, H. S. Ending campus drug incidents.--Szasz, T. The psychiatrist as double agent.--Hochschild, A. Student power in action.--Notes on contributors.

This is a provocative, behind-the-scenes introduction to the vital and complex role science plays in United States politics. It includes the ¬rst formal statement from former President Clinton's former Science Advisor, John H. Gibbons; a fresh retrospective from D. Allan Bromley on science advice in the George H. W. Bush Administration; and a unique viewpoint from John McTague about his brief tenure under President Reagan. Among the twenty-four contributors are former members of the President's Science Advisory Committee, distinguished scholars, and industrialists.

This work aims to show how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing from lower-class status to middle-class power and respectability.

At the end of the Reagan era, many in the US Air Force began to express their concerns about the health of their institution. They questioned whether the Air Force had lost its sense of direction, and its confidence. This work covers this crisis of values within the Air Force.

This work analyses emerging patterns of social welfare and the implications of these trends for the future of social protection to vulnerable groups in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the USA.