A Treatise on Social Theory: Volume 2, Substantive Social Theory Paperback: The Methodology of Social Theory (A Treatise on Social Theory 3 Volume Paperback Set) - Softcover

Runciman, W. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521369835 ISBN 13: 9780521369831

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

The concluding volume to W. G. Runciman's magisterial treatise applies his methodological distinction between reportage, explanation, description, and evaluation expounded in Volume I and the theory of social selection expounded in Volume II to the particular case of twentieth-century English society.

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Críticas

'This is a masterpiece: in its scope and its command of historical and ethnographic detail, it is reminiscent of Economy and Society; in its systematization more gripping.' David Lockwood

'It is an astonishing bravura performance ... I have not come across another approach to comparative history which has impressed me so much.' Eric Hobsbawm

'This is an important and remarkable book. It is extremely ambitious offering nothing less than a general theory of human society, and the confrontation of that theory with the historical material. The quality of the material is commensurate with the ambition.' Ernest Gellner

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Book by Runciman W G

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0521369835
• ISBN 13: 9780521369831
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512