On the Practice of Sociology

Edited and with an Introduction by Barry V. Johnston
336 pages
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3 line drawings, 10 tables
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6 x 9
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© 1998
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Boundaries and Subject Matter of Sociology
2: Some Contrasts between European and American Sociology
3: Sociology as a Science
4: Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect
5: Declaration of Independence of the Social Sciences
6: Referential Principles of Integralist Sociology
7: Sociology of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
8: L. N. Tolstoy as a Philosopher
9: Notes from a Sociologist: At the Crossroads
10: Notes from a Sociologist: Delay
11: An Experimental Study of Efficiency of Work under Various Specified Conditions (with Mamie Tanquist, Mildred Parten, and Mrs. C. C. Zimmerman)
12: Social Mobility
13: The Future of the Rural and Urban Worlds
14: Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis
15: Social Space, Social Distance, and Social Position
16: Ideational, Sensate, Idealistic, and Mixed Systems of Culture
17: Principle of Immanent Change of Sociocultural Systems and Congeries
18: The Perversion of Human Behavior in Revolution
19: The Cause and Factors of War and Peace
20: The Conditions and Prospects for a World without War
21: Sociology and Ethics
22: Amitology as an Applied Science of Amity and Unselfish Love
23: Studies of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism
Selected Publications by and about Pitirim A. Sorokin
Index
Introduction
1: The Boundaries and Subject Matter of Sociology
2: Some Contrasts between European and American Sociology
3: Sociology as a Science
4: Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect
5: Declaration of Independence of the Social Sciences
6: Referential Principles of Integralist Sociology
7: Sociology of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
8: L. N. Tolstoy as a Philosopher
9: Notes from a Sociologist: At the Crossroads
10: Notes from a Sociologist: Delay
11: An Experimental Study of Efficiency of Work under Various Specified Conditions (with Mamie Tanquist, Mildred Parten, and Mrs. C. C. Zimmerman)
12: Social Mobility
13: The Future of the Rural and Urban Worlds
14: Social Time: A Methodological and Functional Analysis
15: Social Space, Social Distance, and Social Position
16: Ideational, Sensate, Idealistic, and Mixed Systems of Culture
17: Principle of Immanent Change of Sociocultural Systems and Congeries
18: The Perversion of Human Behavior in Revolution
19: The Cause and Factors of War and Peace
20: The Conditions and Prospects for a World without War
21: Sociology and Ethics
22: Amitology as an Applied Science of Amity and Unselfish Love
23: Studies of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism
Selected Publications by and about Pitirim A. Sorokin
Index
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