Sociology and ideology / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael.

Sociology in particular is the scene of heated debates about ideology. This work brings together a series of articles that throw light on selected aspects of this intricate matter by sociologists such as Boudon, Wittrock, Arnason, Touraine, Secombe, and Sternberg.

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Other Authors: Ben Rafael, Eliezer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Series:International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; v. 90.
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Table of Contents:
  • The social sciences and the two types of relativism / Raymond Boudon
  • Sociology, critique and modernity: views across the European divide / Johann P. Arnason
  • The decline of the social / Alain Touraine
  • Sociology as a science of culture: linguistic pluralism in Australia and Belarus / Jerzy J. Smolicz and Margaret J. Secombe
  • An old theme revisited: sociology and ideology / Michel Wieviorka
  • Sociology and the critical reflexivity of modernity: scholarly practices in historical and comparative context / Björn Wittrock
  • Divergent commitments and identity crisis / Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg.